Hallmark's Passport to Love: A Machu Picchu Proposal

Grab your passport and a glass of wine! This week on Pour The Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time, Garry and Amy are whisking you away to Peru! They’re unpacking A Machu Picchu Proposal, where Katie (Rhiannon Fish) is on a mission to help her brother Dan (Christopher Vieira) pop the big question. But, when a swoon-worthy chef (Alec Santos) and a few cultural surprises enter the mix, things don’t go exactly as planned. Cue the alpacas, ancient ruins, and a spark-filled detour in this Hallmark rom-com getaway.

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Garry 1:48

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Amy 1:49

What are we doing today?

Garry 1:50

So today we're reviewing the final Passport to Love movie of 2025, a Machu Picchu proposal that aired on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday June 28th 2025.

Amy 2:02

Can you believe it's the end of June already. I know Good gracious it's crazy.

Garry 2:11

Well, if you missed it, you can catch it streaming now on Hallmark Plus. Yes, you can.

Amy 2:16

Tell us who's in this one, a Machu Picchu Proposal. Stars Rhiannon Fish. She plays Katie, yes, for Hallmark. She's been in three of the Signed Sealed Deliver movies the Vows we Made, a Tale of Three Letters, and To the Moon and Back. Ooh, SST she was in the popular movie Polar Opposites in 2025, a Costa Rican Wedding in 2024, my Norwegian Holiday when Love Springs and A Picture of Her in 2023. She's been busy.

Amy 2:45

Yes, she has been, and she's been in one of our favorites. That we think is just super cute. You're Baking Me Crazy.

Garry 2:50

You're Baking Me Crazy.

Amy 2:52

That is from 2020. Some of her other work includes he Loves Me Not in 2024, Sweetest Pie in 2022, and Home and Away, which is an Australian soap opera. She was in 325 episodes from 2010 to 2013.

Garry 3:08

Yes.

Amy 3:10

Australian. That one huh Woo Alex Santos plays Carlos. According to KL Connie Wang's article in Parade he speaks three languages and he has a degree in biochemistry.

Garry 3:24

Wow.

Amy 3:25

That's a smart tart right there yes, super smart his hallmark work includes all four of the unwrapping christmas movies in 2024 and campfire christmas in 2022. Some of his other work includes two episodes of Virgin River between 2020 and 2024, the series Sight Unsees eight episodes between 2024 and 2025, and one episode of the series Arrow in 2017.

Garry 3:53

Wow.

Amy 3:54

Michelle Rosello plays Luciana. They called her Lucy, lucy. She's a Peruvian actress which you will find there were several Peruvian actors. Actresses will find there were several Peruvian actresses. This is her Hallmark debut and only her fourth acting credit.

Garry 4:10

She did really well. Yeah, she did.

Amy 4:12

She was in 16 episodes of the TV series Super Ada.

Garry 4:16

Ooh.

Amy 4:17

Ooh, okay.

Garry 4:17

Ooh.

Amy 4:18

All right, Christopher Vieira plays Dan. This is Christopher's Hallmark debut. Some of his other work includes Dark Side of the Ring he was in one episode in 2023. Hotel Paranormal one episode in 2020. And Mango's four episodes in 2018.

Garry 4:38

Hmm, okay.

Amy 4:41

Lucia Caravido plays Maria, which would be Lucy's mom, right.

Garry 4:46

Yes.

Amy 4:47

She is also a Peruvian actress and this is her Hallmark premiere. She has five acting gigs to her name, including this one, and two of which are shorts. Oh, okay, Okay, yeah A lot of furs. Fernando Farfan plays Luis, luis, luis.

Garry 5:05

Luis.

Amy 5:05

Luis, luis, luis. He's a Peruvian actor. This is not only his Hallmark premiere, but also his acting premiere. He did do a voice on Corporate Prey in 2019. Valentina Saba plays Flores. This is her Hallmark premiere. She, too, is a Peruvian actress. I believe this is her Hallmark premiere. She, too, is a Peruvian actress. I believe she has two other credits, including 83 episodes on Nina de Azucar between 2024 and 2025. And that translates to Sugar Baby just so you know.

Amy 5:37

Sugar Baby, which was intriguing to me, so I looked up the description of the. I had the description translated of that show. It's the life of a young pastry chef, nina, who is struggling to preserve her family business. It takes an unexpected turn when she meets a successful soccer player. Oh wow, I just thought that was kind of cool that is cool.

Garry 6:00

There you go and here we go. Time to drop the synopsis.

Amy 6:04

Here we go.

Amy 6:05

Time to drop the synopsis here we go indeed, katie Rhiannon Fish agrees to join her brother, dan and his girlfriend Luciana on a trip to Peru. Dan plans to propose to Luciana in a grand way at Machu Picchu at the end of the week and needs Katie's Spanish-speaking skills to ask Luciana's Peruvian father for his blessing. However, when Luciana's friend, chef Carlos, played by Alex Santos, arrives, he accidentally ruins each proposal attempt. Refusing to give up, katie does everything in her power to make this proposal happen until Dan calls it off. Katie must lean into Chef Carlos's spontaneity to not only save the day and the proposal, and Carlos may just win Katie's heart too. And this, I know that's a pretty long one.

Garry 6:51

Sometimes we have briefs and that's a pretty long one. Lately we've had one sentence synopsis.

Amy 6:55

That was on IMDb Now. This was primarily filmed in Peru, especially in Machu Picchu, the Sacred Valley region and Cusco.

Garry 7:04

Cusco, that's pretty good.

Amy 7:06

Yeah.

Garry 7:06

Man.

Amy 7:07

Shall we get into it. Let's do it, let's do it so what was your first take on this? My first impression, my first take yeah, and I actually. You know, we saw, we've seen Rhiannon Fish in the Science Seal Delivered movie. To the Moon and Back. We haven't watched all of them yet. We're going through them, so we haven't seen the other two, so I'm not sure how big or small of a role she has in the other ones and we, you know, enjoyed her in that. I thought she really shined in this.

Garry 7:39

Yes, she did.

Amy 7:39

I loved her. I actually really liked alex santos um in it as well. I thought they had really great chemistry, the two of them I thought they were adorable together and she is just so stinking cute. I couldn't stand it throughout the movie um, you know I wasn't.

Amy 7:58

You know I wasn't real sure about the flow of the story. I had sort of you know qualms about it. We do watch it twice. I know we talk about this. We watched it once and I was kind of like I don't know, like I loved them and I actually love the actor and actress who played Dan and Lucy. Yes, but there were parts that I thought were maybe too kiddish, too over the top. I just wasn't sure it came together like it should have. Okay. So I don't know, I love the location.

Garry 8:29

Yeah, it's beautiful, it's beautiful.

Amy 8:31

Yeah, and I have another thought, but I'll save it for my jeer for later, but I enjoyed it. I just there. Just something wasn't there for me.

Garry 8:40

Okay In it. What I just there? Just something wasn't there for me, Okay In it.

Amy 8:44

What about you? Well, I want to go to Peru. Oh, okay, okay, you know, I hear you, I hear you Well you know I'm a big fan of ancient aliens and they're always shooting in Peru. Are they really? Yes, okay, yeah. Always about the ruins and everything.

Garry 8:56

Okay, that's interesting.

Amy 8:57

Okay, that's interesting. So Machu Picchu is-.

Garry 8:59

Yes, have you heard of that before the movie? Yeah, yeah.

Amy 9:02

Oh, you never told me that.

Garry 9:03

And we didn't talk about it until just now. Well, you never watch Ancient Aliens with me, it's true? You don't like it, so yeah. I know, and whenever I talk about it, you have this glazed look over your eyes and it's like okay, now wait, like necessarily a believer, right? It's just that, yeah, I'm just not, that's just not my, I'm not. Uh, some, oh yeah, there's aliens out there. I just like listening to georgio sugaro talk about the, the history and what he thinks I know, I know it's pretty good, but you know the history, the history, the culture, yes, and of course, the ruins.

Garry 9:44

I loved Right.

Amy 9:45

Right.

Garry 9:47

I also loved the terrain. Isn't it cool how they seem to always use every bit of the hillside yes, you know for like growing stuff.

Amy 9:58

I think that's really cool. No waste of land, yes, right.

Garry 10:02

Every inch of it to grow things. And I really thought that you know Katie the character, and Carlos. I thought they really bonded well together.

Amy 10:11

I thought they played off of each other really well, I agree.

Garry 10:14

So yeah, I enjoyed the movie, I mean, I agree.

Amy 10:17

Well, I enjoyed it. I didn't even think about the ancient aliens aspect of it, for you and Peru and all that. That's pretty cool. No, I mean, I thought the shots were great, I thought it was, you know, beautiful.

Garry 10:31

Yeah, cinematography, cinematography was awesome.

Amy 10:34

I thought you know I loved. Well, we'll get into it in a little bit, but let's go into favorite scenes, okay, and then, cause I don't want to, I was going to go into some things. I mean, I really I enjoyed it, but there was just something missing for me in it.

Garry 10:47

Just you know. Well, maybe we could weed it out as we go through this. Maybe there was something we might be able to find.

Amy 10:52

Yeah, I think I yeah.

Garry 10:55

Okay, all right. Well, you got a favorite scene.

Amy 11:06

I have. Have you ever seen? I have a few. I, I actually do have a few, okay. Um, one would have been when they're at the family party and uh, they're at lucy's family's party and they're, they're dancing like in the courtyard and stuff and the music kind of slows down and she sees carlos and he's kind of it was just a cool you know, because the music is playing and then they slow it down and everything's in kind of slow-mo and he's kind of, you know, signaling for her to come and dance with him.

Amy 11:26

And then all of a sudden, Lucy's mom bolts in and dances with him instead. Yeah, Maria. So I thought that scene was really cute. I liked how the music slowed down. I liked the slow-mo of it all. I liked them looking at each other.

Garry 11:38

Yes.

Amy 11:39

And then it was like, okay, I'm going to come. And then someone else butts in there.

Garry 11:42

It's like, oh you know, I know she kind of walked away. I had that down too. But then he went over and grabbed her, so I just I liked that scene a lot, and after the dance that was one of my favorites she acted like a little school girl.

Amy 11:57

Yeah.

Garry 11:57

She was when Katie was trying to put the 360 camera and the tripod together the first time I thought that was so funny.

Amy 12:07

She's like I got this, I got this.

Garry 12:09

And she's so literal and she's so analytical, she's trying to step through it step by step. And what's next? And Carlos is kind of like huh, what's going on, what are you doing? She hands him the barf bag.

Amy 12:22

She's like take this.

Garry 12:24

So there's whatever I see.

Amy 12:27

Another one was when the ring falls into the chocolate.

Garry 12:31

Oh my gosh.

Amy 12:32

And then they put the chocolate containers in the fridge. Yes, and then she tries to stay to get the ring. And she's just standing there and Carlos is like like, is there a reason you're staying here, you know? And she's like no, I'll leave, you know, because she's dying to, you know, find the ring. I thought that was really cute yeah, and the making of the chocolate.

Garry 12:51

I thought was really cute and then when they come back and they open the refrigerator, there's like all of these bowls of chocolate in there now and they're like more than what they had put in there.

Amy 13:00

They're like oh, my god, my God, what did we do? And they all look alike. And then Carlos is like why?

Garry 13:04

don't we just take them off? And so the next scene is they're running with all these bowls of chocolate in their arms. Yeah, I had that down too. How about when Dan meets Lucy's family for the first time in the restaurant and they walk in and it's like everybody in the restaurant stands up?

Amy 13:22

and he's got to meet every last one of them and that's when katie's like he doesn't like to hug people and they're all like big huggers yes, I thought that was funny. That's cool having a big family like that and she, katie, had a lot of good like one-liners yes but she's like you have to try not to listen to those little voices you know she was just so cute, and when she, you know, is delivering them where she's like, you know, oh, that's oatmeal's boring cousin, you know, and I just thought it was she she did.

Amy 13:52

There were a lot of I don't know yeah, she she delivered them really well, like she was saying something she's like oh, I'm oversharing her night like it was like one long, continuous, you know sentence.

Amy 14:03

Yeah, and when she's trying to get dan jenned up, and what does she say? You're getting on that knee, even if it means you never bend it again. You know she's trying to, you know, build him up. And so she delivered a lot of those lines. I felt like pretty flawlessly. She was just super cute in this and she gave a couple shout outs.

Garry 14:21

She called uh dan, lieutenant dan yeah, she did, yeah, I thought, that was cute, and there was another one I think that's when she said, lieutenant dan lieutenant dan when he's freaking out about you know the proposal and everything, yeah but, um, yeah, I also like when, um, she was going through the town taking pictures and there was one scene and there's music playing and she's got kind of going from scene to scene and she puts the camera down and she puts it on a delay and she runs and she gets down on one knee, like she's proposing, and the picture takes and you're like oh my God, this is fun. It's cute. What is she?

Amy 14:56

doing. Well, that was kind of what I had as favorite scenes. Is I just I really love the street markets.

Amy 15:01

That they went to the cobblestone streets, so that kind of, was throughout the whole movie I guess. So I just felt like maybe it wasn't that there. You know, I guess where they were was kind of more remote, so there weren't a lot of people. But it was just a weird dichotomy to me, like they were in this new country and they're supposed to be all these people but there aren't all these people and you know, most of the scenes were just the four of them or the two of them or wherever they went.

Amy 15:35

Like the alpaca farm, it was Lucy's Was that her cousin Right. So there's her, but there weren't a lot of people. I thought the sound was a little weird.

Garry 15:44

Really I don't know. Yeah, I didn't notice that.

Amy 15:47

So I don't know, maybe it's just me, but yeah. What do you have Any?

Garry 15:52

more favorite scenes.

Amy 15:53

The market I talked about. I did. It was a little quirky and I don't know that necessarily worked throughout the film, but the fact that they were, you know, at every turn Dan had a problem, right.

Garry 16:08

I know.

Amy 16:08

Like he. You know he had a mishap. He started to propose and then behind him another guy's proposing, so all the focus is there. So he doesn't propose. You know he, like you said, he meets the entire family.

Garry 16:21

Yes.

Amy 16:21

Of Lucy at once, and then he gets hung over from the family party, right, and he can't you know. And then he wants to propose, and they're trying to find these locations um, on the way to rainbow mountain, at the, they stop at the alpaca farm and he gets an allergic reaction to the pond. So they had all these like sort of silly mishaps that were fun.

Garry 16:42

I just don't know that they all came together or weren't too sort of kiddish a little bit for me, you know I think they were just trying to build it up so that, in the end, they would actually go back to where they started, and that's where their proposal would be right, well, maybe I don't know well which is how it ended up.

Amy 17:02

Maybe you're right, maybe it was like a full circle, right? Like they started there and then, oh, that's true.

Garry 17:06

I didn't think about that. What about that pack of milk? And they try to find all these other are you?

Amy 17:11

do you know me? Hello, no.

Garry 17:16

I mean I might like take. He took a shot, he like downed that and they're like oh, oh.

Amy 17:22

So Katie's like, she's like the poncho we didn't know about, but the milk, yeah, he should have known better.

Garry 17:33

That was kind of cute. That was funny. How about when Dan and Carlos do the Macarena? That was funny.

Amy 17:40

They break down and do the Macarena. I mean, that was yeah, Come on.

Garry 17:45

I mean they arena that was funny. They break down I mean that was, yeah, I mean they threw that in there like why would you throw that in? I don't know, but it was, it was funny and it kind of worked.

Amy 17:51

Yeah, I mean it. Yeah, it kind of worked. I mean I liked the movie night that they had, where they have this really super katie and carlos have. You know, it's just the two of them.

Garry 18:00

Again, no one else is around you know, it's just the two of them, right.

Amy 18:05

And you know I did like sort of the references of you know Katie's very plan. If you don't, what is it? If you, oh?

Garry 18:16

gosh If you don't plan. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail, or something like that yes, yes, yes, which actually I heard today.

Amy 18:24

Oh, did you? Someone said it at work today which?

Garry 18:26

I thought was really well, I wonder if they watched the movie. Yeah, I was like okay, you know they watched the movie, but yeah, no and I liked the idea of her.

Amy 18:32

You know she's very structured, kind of like me. You know, like I don't I like a schedule, me too. I like things to go a certain way. And you know, and I know especially the kids are like come on, you know, and I'm I've gotten a little better since I've gotten older, but I still need to work on it. But I did like that and she wasn't like totally uptight, she just liked to schedule, whereas Carlos was more laid back Right, right back, right right, and he's a chef and he even talks about.

Garry 19:10

You know, when you're a chef, you can experiment, you can try different things.

Amy 19:11

It's not so structured, whereas if you're a baker, it's exact. It's more of an exact science. Well, not more of it is an exact science. You, you have to measure things out and he, that's why he liked being a chef. So I sort of like the you know the yin and the yang of that.

Garry 19:20

Yeah, between the two of them, I thought that that worked really well, yeah so yeah, yeah, so, yeah anymore, or you want to move on to the cheers we can move on to the cheers. Let's do it okay so my first cheer was the twin talk yes, I have that as a cheer. Actually, I thought that was really cute, that was cute Twin talk, and you know what I kept thinking about was the cartoon Wonder Twin Powers Activate. Yeah, now we're dating ourselves. What?

Amy 19:53

about you. I had that because they put their fist over their heart and that's when they could be the most honest, or they're supposed to be.

Garry 20:00

They're supposed to be. Yeah, Tell it like it is.

Amy 20:02

In that moment I had, yeah, the most honest, or they're supposed to be, they're supposed to tell like it is. In that moment I had the twin talk. Um, we talked about the chemistry between katie and carlos. I thought that'd be it. That's a cheer for me. The, the culture, just the, the scenes of the culture, what they were trying to get across with the movie right, right, like at the alpaca farm. They had the um the textiles, like the weaving yeah, I thought that was pretty cool.

Amy 20:22

I thought that was cool. The salt mines yes, just to see you know from us watching that and you know I've never been to Peru, obviously, but just to see that it's cool. Now I don't know if I would do that.

Garry 20:35

Right.

Amy 20:35

But I liked it, I enjoyed that and I wonder how much of a part of the Peruvian culture that is Right you know, because they did show it, the empanadas, the 200-year-old. Oven, stone oven, so there were these things that I thought were really cool, that they were trying to show the culture of. So I thought that those were big cheers for me. What?

Garry 20:58

about you. Any other cheers? Yeah, I also like the alpaca farm because it kind of reminded me of ireland and the sheep farmers, how they let them roam up on the side of the hill. Yeah, and you know, I kind of looked it up and did you know there are over 86 000 alpaca farms in peru?

Amy 21:17

no, I didn't even know they were right. Yeah, but yeah.

Garry 21:21

But I wanted to look it up, that's pretty cool and they average about 60 to 90 alpacas per farm.

Amy 21:27

Okay.

Garry 21:28

That's crazy, right yeah that's pretty cool. No, I did not know that.

Amy 21:31

That's a little trivia, yeah.

Garry 21:34

And talk about the salt mines. I thought that was pretty cool because they I can't remember what they actually, what they actually do. So they manually extract the salt, and I think it's called Mara's, mara's, m a R a S. They channel the salt water to slowly to the shallow terraces, where it evaporates, which leaves the crystals, the salt crystals.

Amy 21:59

And that's when they collect them.

Garry 22:01

I mean so they go down and they keep going down.

Amy 22:03

I thought that was pretty good yeah. I mean they showed them with like a little. It's probably not called a rake, but whatever they were using.

Garry 22:09

Yeah, it was pretty cool, the hoe, the backhoe, not backhoe. Yeah.

Amy 22:17

That's a big machine. And then that led into cooking in the ground and we've seen that before on some of the cooking where by the rocks, basically the heat of the rocks, and then you put, I mean they threw the meat in there and the vegetables, and then they put leaves around.

Garry 22:33

I was like okay, the herbs and stuff like that, and then the bugs in the cactus.

Amy 22:38

That was a delicacy. Or that was the what'd she say, the special ingredient that she found that was a delicacy or that was the what she say, the special ingredient that she found, for that she was under the ruse that they were trying to find this special ingredient for him and even though she was trying to distract him from the right, right and look at these other places for the proposal sites. But OK, I'm not eating a bug.

Amy 22:58

Me, I'm drawing the line, do not take me to Peru and find that cactus and cut it open.

Garry 23:04

Ask you to eat it.

Amy 23:04

And expect me to eat a bug Nope. Not happening, nope, just so we're clear Nope, perfectly fine for them. That's what they want to do.

Garry 23:10

Yeah, I know it's a delicacy in some parts of the world, but I'm not. I'm with you there.

Amy 23:17

Nope, so thank you.

Garry 23:20

Yeah, more cheers.

Amy 23:22

Um no, I think we can probably go on to jeers If we want to, unless you had any more.

Garry 23:32

No, I don't have any more. I thought those were. Yeah, that's all I have for my cheers.

Amy 23:37

That's all you had for your cheers.

Garry 23:41

But I do have a jeer.

Amy 23:43

What's your?

Garry 23:43

jeer. So this movie was all about the food right.

Amy 23:48

Going to.

Garry 23:48

Peru, trying to find well other than the love story Right yeah kind of and they were going from.

Amy 23:54

Not really. I mean, it was about the proposal.

Garry 23:56

Well, right, right.

Amy 23:59

I'm here to counter every word you say. I'm just kidding, obviously.

Garry 24:03

But my only issue is I wish Carlos would have cooked something.

Amy 24:07

Something. For Katie or Dan or all of them, because they kept referring to him as a chef and I'm like, yeah, he's opening a restaurant and is it Chicago or Michigan?

Garry 24:17

somewhere Chicago?

Amy 24:18

And.

Garry 24:19

I just wish he would have cooked something.

Amy 24:20

Interesting, but he was there, I guess. Maybe the idea was, he was there too.

Garry 24:27

Well, he said he goes to find these flavors that he might be able to bring back to his restaurant. So I was just kind of hoping.

Amy 24:36

Oh, I see what you're saying.

Garry 24:36

He would just throw something together, but they didn't. But that's okay. I mean, that was my only jeer.

Amy 24:42

What about you? That was your only cheer, yeah, well no, I don't have that many. We kind of talked about it there was. Well, I'll talk about the scenes. First there was a scene with Dan and Katie. It's after the family night.

Garry 24:58

Right, they're outside, they're dancing that whole thing and they have that big party and night right, they're outside, they're dancing that whole thing and they they have that big party and her and dan and katie, they're like in a courtyard or something.

Amy 25:12

It's when he drops the ring right and she picks it up right, it looked like it had poured. Yeah, it did. The ground was all wet yeah and they were outside the whole time yes now, I'm sure they were on a shooting schedule and I'm sure the rain was inconvenient, but I was like what?

Garry 25:22

what? Or maybe they went inside. Maybe they went inside during the storm and then they came back out and it wasn't raining, I don't know. That was just a little bit of a you know.

Amy 25:31

And then, you know, we kind of talked I can't put my finger on it. There was just sort of a slight miss in this movie for me, and I don't know if it was because there were very few, you know actors not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but I just felt like it was missing something. And I I don't really I I don't have the expertise to know what it is, but I just felt like it was missing something. Like I said earlier, I thought you know Rhiannon. I thought you know Rhiannon. I thought she was great as Katie. I thought Alec was great as Carlos. You know even Lucy, who's never Michelle Rosello, who played Lucy.

Amy 26:13

Right you know she was good Dan.

Garry 26:15

They were all good. They were all good.

Amy 26:17

There was nothing wrong with the acting, there was just some sort of miss for me, and you know I mean I hate to see it. Yeah, like I said, they were all good. And Dan, the actor who plays Dan, christopher Vieira, does he not look like a young Mr Big from Sex and the City, chris? Not yeah? I guess he does he looks, that's what he reminded me of. I was like this is him when he was 20, 30 years old.

Garry 26:35

Yeah, you're right.

Amy 26:38

Yeah, so Like they started there and then they left, and it was really about Peru and discovering, you know, like we talked about earlier the culture and the different things in Peru and probably places that people will go I don't want to say touristy wise, but you know to see the real part of the culture. But I felt like, and then at the end it comes back around to machu picchu, right, which ends up being cool, but I just felt like to name it a machu picchu proposal. I don't know, I just felt like I wanted more of that. I thought we'd get more of an explanation. I felt like machu picchu wasn't even in it, but like two seconds in the movie. It was at the beginning. When then he gets sick, you know, he has the altitude sickness right, that's funny's funny too.

Amy 27:32

And then I don't know, I just thought it would be more of a character, so to speak. I didn't expect it to be you know.

Garry 27:39

Right, I understand what you're saying.

Amy 27:42

So that's sort of that would be my jeer, and that's not really terrible. It's just, I don't know, maybe that's just where the miss was for me, I'm not sure I hope that's okay, I don't know.

Garry 27:52

It's all good.

Amy 27:56

But, like I said, I loved, I thought she was adorable. I thought you know Alex Santos as Carlos. He was so charming and them together really worked the chemistry. Maybe they just need to do another movie together, yeah.

Garry 28:09

I mean That'd be cool.

Amy 28:10

And she was just as cute as she could be in it. I yeah, I mean That'd be cool and she was just as cute as she could be in it. I mean, I loved her in it, just her actions and her one-liners.

Garry 28:16

The facial expressions.

Amy 28:17

Yes, and the giddiness. Yeah, Did you have any other jeers or no? That?

Garry 28:23

was it? I just feel like because of their ruins, and it's almost like being in a maze right. So you don't really have a lot of room for a whole bunch of people, especially if you're trying to get that shot. So I can imagine it was well. That's probably difficult to shoot in and out of those those streets or those breaks, but uh, yeah, no I enjoyed it yeah so.

Amy 28:44

So what would you out of five corks? How many corks would you give this one?

Garry 28:51

I would give it a four you'd give it a four. You'd give it a four. Yeah, I'm a four guy today. You're a four guy today, that's right, I'm four of the movie. This is the first four.

Amy 28:57

Okay, I was like we haven't done any other podcast today.

Garry 29:01

Four of the movie. What about you?

Amy 29:05

I would give it a three and a half. Okay, a 3.5.

Garry 29:09

3.5.

Amy 29:10

That's what it would be from a 3.5. You heard it here folks A 3.5.

Garry 29:14

Right, the acting was great, just the story just.

Amy 29:18

It was just something missing.

Garry 29:19

Yeah Something missing.

Amy 29:24

I think it was just sort of a missed opportunity. The story was decent.

Garry 29:33

It was there. I just felt like maybe it didn't come together, like right, that's fine, that's just my opinion. You know what? We all have opinions. You see it the way? Yeah, you see, yeah what so?

Amy 29:39

that's the final passport to love movie what would you? How would you rank them? So we have to barcelona with love yes to barcelona forever yes villa amore and a Machu Picchu proposal. So what are your rankings, sir?

Garry 29:56

So I love both the Barcelona movies.

Amy 30:00

Me too.

Garry 30:01

You know, I got to kind of put them together Like they were a tie yeah. Because, oh man, they were just good and the Villa Amore it had its. My issue with Villa Amore was the it just the editing didn't seem to flow between the cuts, between the scenes.

Amy 30:18

Right, you had, you talked about that.

Garry 30:20

And I believe I rated that a four or two, so I'm going to have to. I think I kind of like this one more because it was more. It was more upbeat funny to me, that's interesting, yes, so I would place that next, and then coming in last would be the villa amore oh, you know but you know I love the acting in each one of them was spot on yes nothing wrong with the we liked we liked all the actors we didn't feel like anybody fell short or, you know, we weren't like oh I was trying too hard no, just all of them, yeah, and all of them yeah so what about you?

Garry 30:56

how would you rank them?

Amy 30:58

I, it's tough because I'm like you, I, the two barcelona movies are my top. Yes, for sure, for sure, um, and I, like I said, you know, I really, I really enjoyed villa amore and I actually enjoy, I really enjoyed this one. There's just something you know, so I would have to do it probably be in order. Honestly, it would be to barcelona with love would be my number one, my number two. Well now, like you said, they have to be equal yes because they were different stories and they different.

Amy 31:33

Yeah, I'd probably put both of those at the top as number one, and then it would be Villa Amore and probably just below. That would be, and it's not far behind.

Garry 31:41

Right.

Amy 31:42

But it would be a Machu Picchu proposal. Okay, and that wraps up.

Garry 31:45

Passport to Love how about it Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap clap.

Amy 31:50

We need to get a little clapping track right there, don't we?

Garry 31:54

That would be kind of cool, that would be kind of cool. So what are we going to move on to next?

Amy 31:58

What are we going to move on to? Well, it's July and you know what that means it's Christmas in July, can we put up our tree?

Garry 32:05

Oh my goodness, is that a no? Which? Which one we'd have to pick.

Amy 32:09

Oh yes, we have several that we put up now. So we're going to be reviewing the unwrapping Christmas movies that are going to be airing in July on the Hallmark Channel. They were on Hallmark Plus last year in, I believe, november of 2024. Right, and we're also going to be reviewing Holidays, the series that was on Hallmark.

Garry 32:30

Plus last year.

Amy 32:31

That will also be airing on. The Unwrapping Christmas Movies are on Saturday nights on the. Hallmark Channel and Holidays. They're going to show two episodes every Sunday, Woo.

Garry 32:42

We got a lot of work ahead of us.

Amy 32:43

We may sprinkle in some extra surprises throughout the month.

Garry 32:46

Yeah.

Amy 32:47

But we're super excited to do our very first Christmas in July on the pod.

Garry 32:50

I can't wait.

Amy 32:50

Yay, we're super excited to do our very first Christmas in July on the pod. I can't wait.

Garry 32:52

Yay, we're very excited All right, so is that a wrap.

Amy 32:54

That is a wrap All right, I believe Okay.

Garry 32:57

Well, thanks for tuning in. Be sure to follow the podcast wherever you listen so you don't miss one. Also, check us out on social media or send us an email to pourthewineitswrongcomptime at gmailcom. We'd really love to hear from you.

Amy 33:11

We really would Drop us a line. You can comment or send us a message on socials. We'd love to hear from you. Love to hear your thoughts about Passport to Love. Are you excited about Christmas in July? Do you want to talk about all things? Romcom, we are here for it.

Garry 33:26

We're here for it, people, we're here for it.

Amy 33:29

We do drop new episodes every Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Tuesdays are Tinsel Tuesdays around here and we unwrap all things Hallmark Christmas all year round, and on Wednesdays we drop our fresh reviews of the latest Hallmark movies and series.

Garry 33:46

Yes, we do.

Amy 33:47

Until then, fill up your glasses and push play. Thanks for listening, cheers.