Harish N
"The Merry Gentlemen" (2024) is a feel-good Christmas movie that delivers exactly what you'd expect: festive cheer, a dash of romance, and a healthy dose of shirtless men dancing. While it may not be a cinematic masterpiece, it's a perfectly enjoyable watch for those seeking lighthearted holiday entertainment.
The film follows Ashley, a Broadway dancer who returns home for Christmas after a career setback. Determined to save her parents' struggling nightclub, she comes up with a rather unconventional plan: a male stripper show featuring local talent.
The premise is undeniably cheesy, but the film embraces its silliness with a wink and a smile. The dance sequences are surprisingly well-choreographed, offering a touch of "Magic Mike" magic to the holiday season. The film's humor is lighthearted and occasionally even laugh-out-loud funny.
The romance between Ashley and Luke, the charming carpenter who joins the dance troupe, is predictable but sweet. The chemistry between the leads is decent, and their relationship adds a heartwarming element to the festive storyline.
While the plot is predictable and the characters are somewhat one-dimensional, "The Merry Gentlemen" is a perfectly enjoyable holiday romp. It's a lighthearted and entertaining film that will leave you with a smile on your face and a touch of Christmas cheer.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
12/22/24
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James T
A cringy cliche script, tiny budget, and atrocious screen writing come together to make genuinely one of the worst Christmas movies I’ve ever seen. Watched this with my wife and we couldn’t stop laughing at how bad it was.
Basically, it’s as if someone said let’s make a 21 Jump Street, but christmas themed in a small town, with 10% of the budget and D grade actors.
You can safely skip this one in your christmas playlist, and wish I could purge it from my memory.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
12/22/24
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Kristin L
Acting was great, really like both of the leads. The plot was really weird and why did they make her wear a wig? The music was pretty bad, didn’t match the scene.
Her style was so off the whole movie too, broadway dancer from New York? No way.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
12/22/24
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Celeb T
This film starts with a woman who seems to work for 6 weeks of the year as a dancer in a very lame Christmas review. She is fired because she has gotten too old. How could she afford to live on NYC performing as a chorus dancer in a Christmas show for a few weeks a year?
The premise is so stupid, woman looses her seasonal job and moves back to her small mountain town and discovers her parents bar is going broke so she starts an all male review. This raises so many questions like, why not a mixed review if your intention is to make money? Why does this tiny town have so many men with 6 packs and so many women who come every night to watch?
The movie was vacuous, pretentious and self indulgent. There was no chemistry between the actors and I couldn’t care less by the end of the movie what happened.
This was about the most un christmassy movie I have ever seen.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
12/22/24
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Krimson R
Ah yes the classic story , hard working career women goes home, meets boy, saves the small business, and just met boy guilts her into giving up her life long dream.
How Christmas and charming to give up the career shes been training for since childhood, and enjoys, plus makes huge amounts of money for her, for a man she kissed one time.
Not to mention said butt hurt man, the moment he doesn't think hes getting the girl as his "you did a good thing trophy", tries to quit and sabotage the performance that she put together to save the bar, that he called home too. until she of course comes back to stroke his ego and quit all her dreams to kiss him for the second time, because you know that kiss was just too magical, to not give up on everything she loved and worked hard for so selfish to even consider it.
honesty the movie itself without that cliche wasn't exactly the best, but it was charming, until then at the least. would have been an ok movie if instead he realized "damn i was a controlling jerk" and showed up to support her dance career and said something like " i'm sorry i acted that way, this is your dream , and I love you so however we gotta make this work to be together I'm on board , cause you are my dream" that would have been refreshing for one of these movies.
or she could have gotten an offer from a different city nearby and said she picked that one because she knew the Broadway one was gonna replace her again, as soon as someone younger came along. or could have just left out the return to dancing option entirely and she decides to open a dance studio in the town.
The idea a successful independent women quits her entire dream job, with bonus pay, for a man she just met, needs to STOP. though I will give points for realism cause there really are those "nice guy" types out there that would think this is how a man ,BOY, should respond to a women not making him the center of her life when he does a nice thing for her ONE time.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
12/21/24
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Laura D
Are you kidding me?! The classic story, a big city girl comes home for Christmas. Her parents own a bar that is behind in payments. BUT…..She saves the bar with a Christmas themed MALE REVUE. Buckle up, be prepared to laugh. Take it for what it is and enjoy.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
12/21/24
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