According to this Christmas countdown, we’re halfway to Christmas everyone!

Congrats on taking this journey with me and making it this far. Today on 12 Days of Christmas Movies, we return to some comfortable favorites: It’s Netflix. It’s Vanessa Hudgens. It’s a Netflix Vanessa Hudgens Christmas movie. There is time travel. And a knight. Okay, those last two parts are new, but everything else about this movie makes it almost exactly The Princess Switch — well, okay, not EXACTLY, but close enough. You get me.

How did this second go at a Vanessa Hudgens Netflix Christmas movie go? We’ll only be able to tell after running it through our handy dandy Christmas movie rating system.

Romance: 8/10. Romance-wise, this movie does what it’s supposed to do. Brooke (Hudgens) is a jaded school teacher who has given up on love until she runs into Cole (Josh Whitehouse), a man who claims to be a knight from the 14th century. And I mean she literally runs into him. She hits him with her car. After taking him to get a quick check up, somehow everyone thinks it’s perfectly reasonable for Brooke to take this strange man home “until he gets his memory back.”

But of course, Cole isn’t suffering from brain damage or memory lost. He’s just actually a knight. Back in his world, he came across an “old crone” (his words, not mine) who sent him on a quest in modern times to prove he was worthy of being a knight. What is his quest though? He will have to find out through trial and error and awkwardly hilarious misunderstandings. But you’ve probably already guess that his true quest is… love?

Morality: 5/10. I really had to think about what this movie was trying to tell me. I guess there’s no winning with me. I complain when a Christmas movie is too overt with its morality. And I complain when it’s too subtle. But truthfully I don’t know if anything about this movie is subtle. It’s more that the moral is so dumb I didn’t even think of it as being a moral. In their own ways, both Cole and Brooke are closed off to finding love at first because they’re so focused on themselves. And by the end of the movie, they learn it’s okay to set your goals aside for the person you love. Or something? I don’t know.

Music: 6/10. There was Christmas music. It wasn’t offensive. I definitely feel like with Vanessa Hudgens, it’s a missed opportunity not to let her sing.

Christmas Spirit: 10/10. I’m not quite sure how the whole knight thing works into the Christmas spirit except for the dumb pun in the film title. But in other ways, this movie is very Christmassy. There’s lots of snow. There’s baking. There’s a Christmas party. There’s mistletoe. There are presents. There’s even a Christmas morning PUPPY! This is wholesome content.

Did we ever find out where this puppy came from though? No one seemed to want to claim this puppy. Are we to assume it was another magic gift from the old crone? Can we stop calling this woman a crone? What is happening?

Warmth: 10/10. Well, as I mentioned, there was a Christmas PUPPY, which… HELLO. But also, this movie has a lot of cuteness and sweet family moments in it. Brooke is very close with her sister and her sister’s kid Claire (seen above). At one point, Claire finds herself at the center of a frozen lake and Sir Cole rescues her, which endears Cole to the family. All in all, this movie is brimming with Christmas heart.

I don’t have a lot of opinions about this movie either way, because over all this was a mediocre entry into the Christmas movie canon. Not horrible, by any means, but, like, not good either. I do, however, have a few random thoughts before we get into the final rating:

This knight dude sort of looked like a Walmart version of James Franco. No? Just me?

Of course there is a redheaded lady who is trying to get in the way of the main characters’ relationship. The red head never gets to be the romantic lead! They’re always the unwanted member of a love triangle! Justice for redheads!

My favorite part in the whole movie is when Cole doesn’t know how to tie his tie, so Brooke comes over to help him. I was rolling my eyes immediately, thinking to myself, “Why do all women in movies know how to tie ties?” But then Brooke drops the tie and says, “I have no idea what I’m doing.” And I was like, “Yes! Thank you!”