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Polar Opposites
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Emma's Journey to Antarctica
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Polar Opposites. Emma needs to get to Antarctica to reach her father and travels to South America, but can't get on a boat for the last leg.
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She sneaks onto a cruise ship and meets Engineer Andy.
Critique of the Movie's Premise
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One out of ten stars.
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Second worst Hallmark movie ever. My title says it all. This movie was awful.
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It seems forced. It's ridiculous. Don't waste your time on this painful-to-watch fail.
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Sometimes movies get off to a bad start, but progressively get better. This one got progressively worse.
Professional and Ethical Implications
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The premise is awful. No professional, the engineer, is going to risk his career for a stowaway stranger.
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No person is going to risk causing an international incident for a stranger either.
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No professional, the dad this time, would let his daughter think he's missing in Antarctica and at risk of heart issues when she's thousands of miles away.
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That's cruel and mean. actor
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the acting is sub par.
Hallmark's Storytelling Style
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Don't waste your time on this awful movie. It's not the caliber of almost any other Hallmark movie.
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One out of ten stars. Hallmark says lying is okay.
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I've never written a review, but this movie is the limit. I've enjoyed Hallmark films every now and then, despite ridiculous storylines or characters and the too-occasional white lie.
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but the last years it's getting out of hand.
Harmful Themes in Family Content
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We cannot allow telling the blunt truth to overbearing parents or friends an engaged couple sleeping in the same room or the insinuation of sex before marriage on Hallmark television
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But we do allow twisting the truth while it hurts everyone, endangering people.
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Narcissistic behavior Painting women as brainless, emotional, and helpless beings and plain lying to family and friends?
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How does that combine with family-friendly?
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And I'm not even starting with the fact-checking, lazy writing, and ridiculous conversations.
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No more Hallmark for me. One
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of ten out of ten stars I love penguins.
Myth vs. Reality in Antarctic Portrayal
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The main female character was too unwatchable.
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A story about researching penguins is important. They are the canary and the coal mine for our generation.
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Their food sauce is rapidly declining. I think they mean food source.
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That's important to help people understand the importance of penguins.
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The main female character was way too ditzy and stupid, and she needed a strong male to get her out of trouble.
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Come on, Hallmark! It's time to highlight brilliant female scientific researchers.
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This is important to show how female researchers have played a minimal part and the male researchers get all the glory.
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Time to smarten up, Hallmark. Help brilliant female researchers get their due.
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One out of ten stars. Please, no more.
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Hallmark is digging the bottom of the barrel with this one. Rhiannon Fish was awful.
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She has one acting mode, being stupid, and she does that well. Very predictable plot.
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and having cruised for
Character Development Flaws
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many years, she couldn't sneak on a ship that easy, and everyone has to swipe off ships so she wouldn't get off that easy.
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Very unrealistic. The penguins were adorable along with the scenery.
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They were the only redeemable parts of the movie.
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Another Boy Meets Girl, Boy Falls for Girl, Hallmark movie with subpar acting.
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It's too bad Hallmark thinks that the viewers are can only watch fluff movies and can't enjoy a movie without a happy ending.
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One out of 10 stars. The worst Hallmark movie to date.
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Is it just me, or is the premise of Hallmark movies getting dumber and dumber?
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I've been to Antarctica. We were told if we ended up in the water, we would be dead quite rapidly due to cold shock stopping our heart.
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So the main characters do a polar plunge in bathing suits off a cliff with no way out and just swim around like it's bathwater.
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Then they sit around with wet hair in a blanket shivering.
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How did they get out of the water? They supposedly left from Buenos Aires, but most expedition ships actually leave from Ushuaia.
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If you've ever taken a cruise, you know the boarding process is a bit more complicated than just showing up at the gangway and presenting your ticket.
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There are so many beyond belief moments that this whole story was laughable.
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Scientists that go to Antarctica don't typically get French manicures like Pegg.
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There is just so many things wrong with this movie. Please do better, Hallmark.
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One out of ten stars. Polar bad.
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I know it's Hallmark, so I go into these having to suspend my belief in reality, but this one was such a bad premise.
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The dad is in trouble in the Antarctic, so he calls his daughter in the States instead of the research station there.
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So the daughter stows away, then blackmails her love interest for his help.
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She has to stay in his cabin, of course. And then they do rocks, paper, scissors for the bed.
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ah Ugh. You're the stowaway and blackmailer.
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In another scene, when first stowing away, she's desperately hungry and gets a ton of salad,
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er from the buffet table and then is intercepted by the love interest and then never goes back to her food.
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I thought she was desperately hungry.
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Albeit, it was only a salad, so I might have done the same.
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It is mentioned it's a ten-day cruise to Antarctica. So later, when in Antarctica and searching for her father, there's an overnight scene with the stowaway and love interest in a tent, braving the elements, and they are iced up with frosted faces and eyebrows, etc.,
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The next day, they find her father looking pretty good as though he just walked out of a movie set trailer, just lying on his back out on the ice with one leg hiked up.
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No tent, nothing. So we're supposed to believe he's just been lying there for at least ten days looking hunky-dory?
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One out of ten stars. Dumb movie.
Call for Better Storytelling
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A one rating high. hi
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We're supposed to believe this woman, one, gets on a ship, two, doesn't get caught for eight days, three, gets on the Antarctica research base, no questions asked,
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Four, goes off on her own to find her dad. Five, researcher helps her with all this.
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I mean, most Hallmark movies are a fairy tale, but this one is utterly ridiculous Come on, Hallmark, stop treating us like we're stupid.
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And she's walking around in just earmuffs?
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Please stop making movies that insult our intelligence. I have a couple of friends who actually were stationed in the Antarctica.
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The hallmark depiction is just plain stupid.
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From the Internet To go outside in Antarctica, you must wear multiple layers of specialized clothing designed for extreme cold, including outerwear,
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outerwe thermal base layers, and protective gear like gloves, hats, and goggles.
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And always go with a partner. following safety protocols like checking in with the station before leaving and carrying a radio as the harsh conditions pose a high risk of frostbite and hypothermia if not properly prepared.
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And yes, that was all one sentence.
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I hope these people aren't dead because they certainly should be based on Hallmark.
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Two out stars.
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unwatchable, even for Hallmark.
Suspension of Disbelief and Audience Reaction
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Okay, yes, one is supposed to suspend disbelief when watching Hallmark movies.
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We all agree people can fall in love 24 hours throw away their life's work, and make livings in what amounts to hobby businesses.
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But this one? Come on. At least it takes place in a different setting.
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The heroine is even more self-sabotaging than normal, and that is saying a lot for a Hallmark movie.
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Spoiler.
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The heroine Emma becomes a stowaway, more or less, when her father goes missing on a research trip and she lacks the permissions necessary to travel to Antarctica.
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Does she sensibly hide in her cabin so as not to get caught after enlisting the help of a handsome engineer? No, she does not.
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She cannot take it and must be out of her cabin to get fresh air, etc.,
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This is where I turned off. I cannot, with Hallmark perpetually portraying women as stupid.
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Two out of ten stars. What a disappointment.
Antarctic Setting and Wildlife Portrayal
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I had hoped for something spectacular since learning they were making the attempt to at the very least film close to Antarctica.
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But to be honest, you couldn't even tell it was filmed in Argentina. Argentina.
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They found snow and rocks, but nothing said Antarctica. I didn't like the fake penguin shots.
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Most were sparse or disproportion in size compared to the surroundings.
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Lots of fuzzy snow and rock shots, which made it look even more faked.
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And then there is the plot. The idea that you would call for help.
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from someone that is thousands of miles away and would need a special permit to come?
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Never. Not from someone that is an expert wanting to save the lives of animals they consider family.
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They want us to believe that killer whales are waiting around to eat two penguins for over ten days while there are dozens of other potential meals around the corner?
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How did he initially secure the iceberg without grabbing the penguin and rescuing her?
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Nothing made sense.
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I did enjoy the relationship between Fish and Tara Sweet. It looked genuine and lively, easygoing and a good start.
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I just can't ignore the plot and premise. I can suspend disbelief, but not never in a thousand years.
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Two out of ten stars.
Viewers' Real-life Antarctic Experiences
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Bad fake.
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Having just had the extraordinary experience of actually going to Antarctica, this movie was painful to watch.
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Normally, suspending belief goes with the territory, but this one didn't come close.
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The ship was too large and lacked any reality to an actual explorer vessel.
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There is so much security getting on and off the ship.
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And setting foot on Antarctica that way
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Penetrating and moving an ice floe m Impossible. fake, fake.
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fake The polar plunge? Those happen, but not like that.
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It is stunning, but they were clearly filming in front of fake scenery.
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And that whale... No way you could get that close. Three out of ten stars.
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Wow.
Preposterous Storyline Critique
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They couldn't come up with a better premise for this being set in Antarctica?
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This was really bad. I've only made it about halfway through the movie, but I'm not sure I can finish.
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From the first phone call from the dad, it was just stupid. She thinks he's distress. in distress.
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So she hops a flight to Argentina and then somehow becomes a stowaway on the ship to Antarctica?
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The engineer is an idiot for just thinking she was part of the research team and for helping her stay hidden.
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and for letting her step foot on Antarctica without proper papers. And as to that, I've read tourists, like the ones going on the expedition she leaves the ship with, aren't allowed where researchers go.
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Researchers go to proper Antarctica. Tourists are only allowed on one specific outer area.
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And then the dad is fine. As if the research team he's a part of couldn't have taken care of his rescue or searching for him anyway?
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And Emma is not very likable. i get she loves her dad and is worried about him.
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But she's ridiculous and self-absorbed. And she blackmails the love interest in order for him not to turn her in. i mean,
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yikes
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everything about it is just bad
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They could have had her taking a solo trip to Antarctica to find herself, wanting to feel closer to nature, etc., and she met a guy also taking a solo trip there.
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That premise would have been far more believable And not nearly as stupid.
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I mean, what was even the point anyway when they just used GGI for Antarctica?
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Well, hopefully, at this point, you have long since began snoring very, very loudly.
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But if you would like to further suspend disbelief and listen to more, what do you say we do another?