I watched each Taylor Swift x Travis Kelce Christmas motion pictures so that you wouldn’t have to

This yr we’ve been blessed (or cursed) with two competing Christmas motion pictures which are basically based mostly on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship. Lifetime’s Christmas within the Highlight and Hallmark’s Vacation Landing: A Chiefs’ Love Story.

I made a decision there was no higher solution to waste three hours of precious pre-holiday time by watching these motion pictures back-to-back and telling you if each, or both are value your time.

Christmas within the Highlight

We open with “Bowyn Sykes,” the Taylor Swift equal on this film engaged on a brand new Christmas album, which can also be about her failed relationships. Sadly she’s simply suffered a horrible breakup, which her supervisor “Mira Vu” decides to speak to her about on this heart-wrenching trade

Mira: “You don’t fear that he’s jingling his bells throughout city?”
Bowyn: “I don’t care. He can deck his halls with any prancer, dancer, or vixen he needs.”

We then meet the Travis equal, Drew “Gonzo” Gonville. He’s a large receiver for a fictitious workforce the place his brother within the star quarterback. To get a way of how soiled they did Jason Kelce on this film: He’s a photograph of them subsequent to one another.

Gonzo is fearful his numbers and lagging and that he gained’t have his contract renewed. For now he’s forgetting all about that to attend his niece’s birthday celebration the place he items her tickets to the Bowyn live performance to go together with him.

I’ll spare you their little meet cute and the way they each get enthusiastic about one another — frankly, as a result of I don’t need to relive it. I do have to level out that Bowyn followers are known as “Arrowheads” as a result of her identify is “BOWyn,” get it? It’s very intelligent.

Bowyn’s supervisor is shocked to be taught that her good friend met Gonzo, who she refers to as “the most effective large receiver on this planet,” who’s a “nine-time MVP” and has the “longest report for yards obtained,” no matter that’s.

So maintain up. Gonzo is a NINE-TIME MVP, which might make him the best participant within the historical past of soccer and it’s not even shut — but he’s fearful about being minimize as a result of he has dangerous numbers for one season?

Bowyn decides to go on a date with him as a result of it’d imply she will get to be within the Tremendous Bowl halftime present.

So they begin relationship, and magically Gonzo is enjoying “the most effective soccer of his profession,” which is wild for somebody to say, who as soon as once more, is a NINE-TIME MVP.

Gonzo will get a contract supply from one other workforce, planning to just accept it. His QB brother blows up, blaming it on Bowyn. Gonzo says “I’m glad another person sees my value,” which once more, is wild contemplating HE’S A NINE-TIME MVP.

They resolve their battle in quarter-hour of display time. Bowyn performs at a most cancers profit and the film ends with them kissing on Christmas whereas a bit woman yells “TOUCHDOWN!”

Vacation Landing: A Chiefs’ Love Story

This film is barely a film. Made by Hallmark AND the NFL in live performance, it’s principally a 90 minute advert for soccer and the Chiefs. This model evokes the Taylor and Travis relationship with out being too on the nostril.

On this one Alana Higman and her household personal essentially the most quaint Chiefs memorabilia retailer in Kansas Metropolis. They’re attempting to turn into the “followers of the yr,” which is seemingly a contest and it’s right here that Derrick Taylor is available in. He’s the Chiefs “Director of Fan Engagement,” which all of the previous folks assume implies that Alana is getting engaged. It’s all very “humorous.”

They’ve their meet cute. Begin spending extra time collectively, and Alana will get invited to the Chiefs’ Christmas Get together — which she is tremendous hyped about. There she meets precise Chiefs’ guar Trey Smith, who apparently is aware of who Alana is as a result of he household has a “fortunate Chiefs hat,” which implies the workforce wins on Christmas if it’s worn within the stadium.

Trent Inexperienced is within the film too, which is generally so I can put up this screenshot with none context.

The household loses the magic Christmas hat, which Alana assumes means the household enterprise will shut and everybody will hate them. This film is absolutely designed round the concept that Kansas Metropolis is such a small city that everybody would find out about this one memorabilia store and actively search to close it down over a magic hat.

The true magic wasn’t the hat, it was household. The Higmans win “followers of the yr,” Alana and Derrick kiss at midfield earlier than the large Christmas recreation — and Andy Reid needs them to piss off.

Then on the final second the world’s creepiest man dressed as Santa offers Alana the magic Christmas hat.

Grandpa cries and realizes it’s the Chiefs hat Santa gave to him as a child. The top.

Which of those motion pictures ought to I watch?

Neither.