The Merry Gentlemen Movie Review
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Christmas movies have always been a mix of films that everyone can enjoy, regardless of where you come from or what religion you belong to, and films that are for a specific audience. A closer look reveals the difference in quality between these two categories of Christmas movies. Some seem timeless, while others reek of bland regression. I grew up watching movies like Home Alone, Die Hard, Promises Are True, and of course The Grinch. Some of the more recent movies have good examples like Klaus, Anna and the Apocalypse, Krampus, and Merry Little Batman. You can browse this movie on Afdah Tv.
But this snowy landscape seems to have been taken over by Netflix now. And the streaming platform is characterized by junk like The Princess Switch movie, Love Hard, Not So Merry Christmas, I Believe in Santa, Christmas As Usual, The Best Christmas Ever! and Hook Up Christmas Contest. Now, The Merry Gentlemen is here to fill out this great list and at the same time test whether it passes as a movie despite its lack of cinematic quality.
Peter Sullivan's Netflix film The Merry Gentlemen tells the story of Ashley, a dancer from the Broadway show Jingle Bells. However, because she is in her 30s, producer Jody considers her "old" and replaces her with a younger dancer. This prompts Ashley to return to their Sycamore Creek home to spend Christmas with her parents Stan and Lily, hoping to get her footing before choosing the next step in her professional life. She then learns that her parents' bar, "The Rhythm Room," is about to close because landlady Denise has been raising the rent for a while. Stan and Lily are barely making ends meet, as the bands that still play there don't draw large crowds. After racking his brains staring at the dead bodies of handyman Luke, bartender Troy, and Ashley's brother-in-law Roger, the former Broadway star comes up with the idea to turn the Rhythm Room into a stage for an all-male revue.
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