Movie Review

Netflix’s Holiday In The Wild is a Silly, Saccharine, Enjoyable Mess You Will Watch Again and Again

Netflix’s new holiday movie is 90 minutes of easy, breezy holiday fun.

Official Netflix Holiday in the Wild movie poster

What do you get when you put a Sex and the City-er with Rob Lowe and a bunch of adorable elephants?

You get Netflix’s new Christmas movie Holiday In The Wild.

Is Netflix Going After Hallmark Channel’s Audience With Their New Rom-Com Falling Inn Love?

As Netflix continues to try and out Hallmark Hallmark in the Christmas movie wars, you can expect more silly, sugary, perfectly entertaining films like Holiday in the Wild.

It has all the trappings of Hallmark with added Netflix flair:

• Handsome older couple (but more famous) — check
• A story that makes little sense but is enjoyable nonetheless — check
• Perfectly predictable from beginning to end — check
• Bad acting by secondary characters (sorry son of Sex and the City-er) — check