When the nights get long and it’s just too cold to go outside, there’s nothing better than wrapping yourself up in a nice, warm blanket and watching something with a happy ending. Netflix knows this, and apparently, Vanessa Hudgens knows this as well because, on November 21st, they’re giving us yet another holiday romantic comedy: The Knight Before Christmas, a follow-up to the unexpected success of The Princess Switch, Hudgens’ hit rom-com from 2018.
From what we can see in the recently released trailer, Hudgens plays Brooke, an unlucky-in-love science teacher who literally bumps into her knight in shining armor, Sir Cole, a 14th century time-traveler who ends up in our time for mysterious reasons. The man’s unexpected arrival would definitely scare anyone in real life, but as we’ve learned from a slew of other time-travel related romantic comedies, modern-day women are so tired of trying to find their “Prince Charming” among contemporary suitors that even something as huge as a 600-year age difference is no obstacle to find love with a charming newcomer.
After running Sir Cole over with her “steel steed” on a dark, snowy night, Hudgens’ character believes that he is just a normal 21st-century man who has temporarily lost his memory, so she decides to help him until it comes back, and what is ensues is the typical story of “old-fashioned gentleman trying to figure out the modern world, while also giving the modern woman the true, old-fashioned love she’d always dreamed of.” Fun, sweet, and heartwarmingly predictable: exactly what a good holiday movie is all about.
Source: Coming Soon As we mentioned earlier, The Knight Before Christmas comes out on November 21st, so we don’t know all the details about how Brooke and Sir Cole’s love story plays out yet, but what we can definitely ascertain from the trailer is that Netflix is targeting an ever-increasing audience of unlucky-in-love Millennials with a taste for sappy, holiday rom-coms. Many of us might not even believe that such a thing as true love or happily-ever-afters exists anymore, but we’re more than happy to sit down and embrace the fantasy for an hour and a half.
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