{"id":315250,"date":"2025-12-14T08:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315250\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T08:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:05:09","slug":"prime-videos-new-holiday-addition-might-be-the-most-overrated-christmas-movie-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315250\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Video&#8217;s New Holiday Addition Might Be the Most Overrated Christmas Movie Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we\u2019re smack in the middle of December, a lot of folks are <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/movies\/news\/these-are-the-best-christmas-holiday-movies-on-every-major-streaming-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">looking to watch some Christmas movies on their favorite streaming services<\/a>. There are a lot of holiday classics in the annual rotation for folks, but there\u2019s one particular Christmas movie that feels like it doesn\u2019t quite belong in that December lineup with the others. Everybody has their own taste, and we all have favorites that may be fueled purely by nostalgia, but Love Actually is a special case of a movie that just doesn\u2019t play nearly as well 20+ years after its release.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial Christmas film from 2003 has stuck around in pop culture two decades later, thanks in large part to the memes born from Andrew Lincoln\u2019s \u201cTo Me, You Are Perfect\u201d scene. On December 1st, the film got a little easier to watch, as it was added to the streaming lineup on <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/tag\/prime-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prime Video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPlay video<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765699509_334_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Play\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It feels like you\u2019re either a major Love Actually fan or a total Love Actually hater (I\u2019m firmly in the latter camp). The movie has aged incredibly poorly over the last two decades, though you do wonder sometimes what people even saw in Love Actually when it was first released. Sure, the cast is incredible, but several of its storylines are cliche at best, outright troublesome at worst. <\/p>\n<p>Even with some problematic characters and scenarios, there are at least a lot of great actors stuffed into this cast. Some of the biggest names in the ensemble include Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Martin Freeman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Andrew Lincoln, Keira Knightley, Laura Linney, and Alan Rickman.<\/p>\n<p>New Movies on Prime Video<\/p>\n<p>Prime Video had a relatively light lineup of additions at the start of December, at least compared to previous months, but subscribers still got quite a few new titles to check out. Love Actually was surprisingly the only major holiday movie brought onto the service on December 1st, though Prime Video did release the star-studded Christmas original film Oh. What. Fun. a couple days later.<\/p>\n<p>While the holiday fare was lighter than expect this month, the beginning of December did have some great titles join the Prime Video lineup. The streamer brought all 15 seasons of Supernatural to its roster, along with hit movies like Madagascar, Zombieland, Bull Durham, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. You can check out the full list of Prime Video\u2019s December 1st additions below. <\/p>\n<p>12 Angry Men (1957)<br \/>A Haunting in Venice <br \/>Bill &amp; Ted\u2019s Bogus Journey <br \/>Bloodsport <br \/>Bull Durham <br \/>Death on the Nile (2022)<br \/>Dog (2022)<br \/>Double Impact <br \/>Four Weddings and a Funeral <br \/>Hackers <br \/>Hoosiers <br \/>Igor <br \/>Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)<br \/>Love Actually <br \/>Mad Max (1980)<br \/>Madagascar <br \/>Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa<br \/>Max (2015)<br \/>Max 2: White House Hero<br \/>Notting Hill <br \/>Out of Time <br \/>Penguins Of Madagascar<br \/>Platoon<br \/>Sicario: Day of the Soldado <br \/>The Birdcage <br \/>The Man In the Iron Mask <br \/>The Prodigy <br \/>Zombieland <br \/>Supernatural S1-15 <br \/>The Merchants of Joy (2025)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that we\u2019re smack in the middle of December, a lot of folks are looking to watch some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,11523,1092,3842,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-315250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-prime-video","11":"tag-regular-news","12":"tag-streaming","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}