Actually personally wasn't that crazy about the first 'A Very Country Christmas'. Liked the music and Greyston Holt, but disliked Bea Santos, how excessively unlikeable her character was and the lack of chemistry. Not to mention the pong-filled dialogue and over-stretched story. Expectations were not high in all honesty for 'A Very Country Christmas: Homecoming', seeing as most sequels (with of course some very notable exceptions that are on par or even better) have notorious reputations for being inferior.

Luckily, for me 'A Very Country Christmas: Homecoming' was a lot better (am not sure how well that opinion is going to go down, having a lot of support for the first film here in reviews for this). It wasn't great and had some serious faults still, but it also had two particularly major improvements that were enough to make it superior. There are much better sequels out there than 'A Very Country Christmas: Homecoming', and there are also much worse. As far as sequels for anything from Hallmark/Lifetime/UPTV go, this is somewhere in the middle.

Is it perfect? No. The story here also feels overstretched and has very little new, complete with moments of draggy pacing.

Did also think that 'A Very Country Christmas: Homecoming' was marred further by having too much of the truly obnoxious Cake and Charlotte Hegele's increasingly tiresome scenery chewing.

Holt however is as appealing and charismatic as he was in the first 'A Very Country Christmas' film. Santos' acting is a massive improvement here, much more comfortable, far less cold and with a lot more charm. Her character is also a lot more likeable, no flaws taken to extremes. The chemistry between Holt and Santos improves a lot too, there is some this time and it is understated but charming.

The dialogue is a lot less cheesy, apart from with Cake, and flows more and while the story is far from perfect it is warm hearted, doesn't take itself too seriously while not being over the top. The scenery is picturesque and complemented slickly by the photography and the soundtrack is pleasantly infectious.

Concluding, not perfect but superior. 6/10.

I just finished watching this Hallmark movie. It was sweet...a lovely story. However, I was many times distracted from the story line. I truly like Deana and as a friend on screen to our star, she was fine. However to have us believe that her character was together with Shara's character was a stretch. I mean get real...there's a 20 year age gap! Plus her singing was not her best. Oh Holy Night needs to be sung by a stronger voice... So, casting messed up this time.

This is the third instalment in the "A Very Country" trilogy. Don't you just love a rom-com trilogy? If you liked A Very Country Christmas and A Very Country Wedding then you will adore this film. The paparazzi are back to put a wrench in their post honeymoon plans. These two are really in the grove and their chemistry really shows on screen.