- Netflix’s best original and existing Christmas Movies
- The streamer has plenty of trashy Christmas movies
- But which are the trashiest ones?
It’s the most wonderful time of the year when we eat to our heart’s content and binge Netflix Christmas movies – the best and the worst.
You see every year, the streaming service creates and adds more cheesy Christmas movies to their catalog. Sometimes they even make a franchise out of them. (We’re looking at you A Christmas Prince).
Read more: New Christmas movies to stream this December
Netflix even has a collection of Holiday movies for all ages but what are the best ones? We’ve already covered the best Christmas specials, so get ready for our best Christmas trashy movie picks to get wrapped up in or to laugh hysterically at.
The best trashy Netflix Christmas movies
5. The Boss Baby: A Christmas Bonus (2022)
This one’s for the kids because we know they love Boss Baby – but honestly, after so many Boss Baby spin-offs, you’d think they’d leave it alone. The plot is weird: Boss Baby gets stuck in the North Pole and swaps places with one of the elves. It’s not even much of a Christmas special, there’s no message about the Christmas holiday or spirit like a lot of other Netflix Christmas movies.
Nevertheless, for the adults, it is funny. Watching a Christmas special about a baby obsessed with his holiday bonus is hilarious, so it might be something to sit down and watch after the kids have gone to bed.
4. The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star (2021)
The Princess Switch trilogy has had many criticisms. It’s filled with cliches and repeats the quirky American girl and British royal romance stereotype once again. However, the first film at least had substance – and as far as Netflix Christmas movies go, it’s not half bad.
Vanessa Hudgens pretends to be a royal to keep things easy for Prince Edward (Sam Palladio) while having Princess Margaret, also Hudgens, fall in love with her best friend Kevin (Nick Sagar).
By the third film, the franchise is tired. In number 2, the girls switched again (okay, fair enough), but a third time imagines Margret and Stacy teaming up to find a stolen royal relic.
So… what do they do, call the police? Nope, they call Margret’s obnoxious cousin Fiona for help.
The movie is so bad it’s good. Hudgens tries and fails to put on a British accent, and the character of Fiona attempts to be a villain but it just falls flat and feels exaggerated. Want something chaotic, out of pocket, and just plain wacky? Then this movie is for you.
3. Christmas on Windmill Way (2023)
Home Alone might be the best Christmas movie ever, but it doesn’t hold a flame to the cliche of Christmas on Windmill Way. It has all the Christmas movie checklist cliches: 2000s actors, a saving a small-town project, and a small-town handsome man.
Our small-town handsome man is Chad Michael Murray, another veteran of Netflix Christmas movies. Murray also starred in another Netflix crimbo project, The Merry Gentlemen this year, alongside The Longest Ride’s Britt Robertson.
Back to the dilemma: Mia (Christa Taylor Brown) faces losing her family’s property on Windmill Way after her grandma fails to win the local Dutch baking competition. Yes, that’s the literal plot.
Mia’s grandmother must sign away the family’s deed to the property. We don’t even want to dive into this plotline—it’s flimsy and threadbare at best. Brady (Michael Murray), a childhood friend of Mia’s, tries to help out.
Honestly, this movie hits every cliché in the book. If you’re in it for the eye candy, give it a watch. However, if you’re looking for authenticity, look away—its portrayal of Dutch culture is… something, to say the least.
2. Hot Frosty (2024)
Hot Frosty feels like something out of a fever dream. It’s like Jack Frost but thirsty. Starring Mean Girls’ Lacey Chabert as a saddened widow named Kathy, you’d think ‘Aw, it’s going to pull on my heartstrings’ – but think again.
See Kathy unknowingly conjures up a sexy snowman with an old ratty scarf who turns out to be Ethan from 90210 or Dustin Milligan, as he’s called in this film.
This newly human snowman must adapt to the real world to blend in. However, his innocence and quirky nature make the cynical Kathy believe in love again. Somehow, we’re supposed to believe this no-chemistry pairing is deeply in love. It’s a bizarre yet silly Netflix Christmas movie, so if you’re in it for 2000s actor nostalgia, go right ahead.
1. The Knight Before Christmas (2019)
The Knight Before Christmas is one of Netflix’s most hysterical Christmas offerings. Netflix Christmas movies veteran Vanessa Hudgens plays Brooke, a high school science teacher cynical about love. Sir Cole (Josh Whitehouse) the knight, time travels into the 21st century where he meets her.
Sir Cole (as if that name wasn’t ridiculous enough) must learn how to adapt to the 21st century. Simultaneously, he tries to figure out what his quest is in the modern world – because yes, apparently he’s destined to make some random girl believe in love again. It’s as ridiculous as it is charming, and at the very least, Whitehouse and Hudgens have chemistry.
On our list of must-watch Netflix Christmas movies, it’s at the top.
