Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Decades after his apprentice betrays him, a once joyful toymaker finds new hope when his bright young granddaughter appears on his doorstep.
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Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (Forest Whitaker, Keegan Michael Key, Phylicia Rashad, Ricky Martin) Today on Netflix, 100% Rotten Tomatoes
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It has 26 reviews right now on Rotten Tomatoes with 10 by Top Critics.
oops. thats still great. might have to watch after thanksgiving.
its got a pretty strong following among film twitter circles. those are some of the GOAT family films tbh. that director is very talented
this particular movie doesn't look like its for me but its dope that its getting great reception. and its a shame that its so wholly unique to have a christmas fantasy movie with a black cast in 2020 but I'm glad its happened at least.
I don't go for the overly twee phantasmagorical look films like this have, but that's a hell of a cast so I'll probably give it a chance.
It was alright. WAY too long at 122 minutes but the production values and performances helped elevate the generic story and characters.
Another Paddington link is that both films feature Hugh Bonneville. :)
I've been looking for a fun, pizazz-filled original musical since The Greatest Showman and this looks like it might fit the bill nicely.
Damn it's long but it's GOOD. I suggested it to my wife since she loves Christmas stuff (I don't) and I had no idea it was a musical going in but it's really, really good. And I hate musicals. The production values and CG animation are top shelf.
Key's factory is basically the Shinra Electric Power Company mako reactor too, no lie.
Key's factory is basically the Shinra Electric Power Company mako reactor too, no lie.
Watched this yesterday. Certainly one of the better Christmas offerings from Netflix (honestly is probably #2 on my list of Netflix Christmas films behind Klaus)
+ Great cast
+ Some of the songs were really good
+ Great production design
- Not enough Kegan Michael Key
- Why even bother casting Hugh Bonneville for such a small, inconsequential role?
- Very boringly shot. I was honestly expecting a "Directed by Chris Columbus" at the end
- Little too long
+ Great cast
+ Some of the songs were really good
+ Great production design
- Not enough Kegan Michael Key
- Why even bother casting Hugh Bonneville for such a small, inconsequential role?
- Very boringly shot. I was honestly expecting a "Directed by Chris Columbus" at the end
- Little too long
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Lisa Davina Phillip as Mrs. Ms. Johnston was hilarious. I also wasn't expecting Ricky Martin's role in this, hah.
Ashley Wallen, the dance choreographer who worked on The Greatest Showman, also worked on the film. I was wondering why some of these dance numbers were so reminiscent.
I wished they didn't cut Madalen Mills' first song "Not the Only One" so mercilessly short. The album version was already a terse two minutes long and they still edited it down to just 50 second in the film itself. =/
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I was also getting worried that the film was hitting its final stretch, and Anika Noni Rose hadn't had much time to shine, especially in the vocals department. Luckily, she brings a banger at the eleventh hour; and I'm amazed that Whitaker was able to hold his own not just here, but with his song Over and Over as well.
Ashley Wallen, the dance choreographer who worked on The Greatest Showman, also worked on the film. I was wondering why some of these dance numbers were so reminiscent.
I wished they didn't cut Madalen Mills' first song "Not the Only One" so mercilessly short. The album version was already a terse two minutes long and they still edited it down to just 50 second in the film itself. =/
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I was also getting worried that the film was hitting its final stretch, and Anika Noni Rose hadn't had much time to shine, especially in the vocals department. Luckily, she brings a banger at the eleventh hour; and I'm amazed that Whitaker was able to hold his own not just here, but with his song Over and Over as well.
Just got done watching this and I liked it a lot. Maybe I'm an emotional dude but I got pretty teary eyed several times.
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RT is a review aggregate site that simply uses a binary system of positive (fresh) or negative (rotten). That's it. LOL @ There's no way this is 95% good. You clearly don't understand the site. If you want to see to what degree how good or bad it's reviews have been you just click "See Score Details", and you'll see it's average rating is 7.2.
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Claiming it's not 95% good misses the point.
The score is a reflection of positive to negative review ratio, not how good it is.
I know how the rating system works. The point is when a movie gets a high % rating.. it usually matches with my opinion of the movie. Most movies that hit 80+ on RT I would give 8+/10. This is one of the exceptions. That's it.
'95% good' is in quote marks for a reason.
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My only issue was you claiming there's no way it's 95% good regardless if it was in quotation marks or not as if that 95% fresh rating was representative of the varying degrees of how good a move is. Just because it correlated with your opinion in the past, doesn't invalidate it's fresh rating because it doesn't correlate with your opinion now.
This movie is a very safe, family friendly, sugary, family friendly, Xmas movie with high production values. I definitely understand why it won't be up some people's alley. However I also understand how people go into it knowing what it is and can like/love it exactly for that.
If you missed it from last year, check out the Netflix animated film "Klaus"
Saw this with my kids. I thought it was great and the music was quite good. My 3 year started to get a bit bored though given it's length but my 7 year old enjoyed the whole thing.
Might give this one a try again next year. The wife and I had to walk away while the kids were watching it a couple weeks ago and when we came back they turned it off. It seemed kind of slow to start but I thought the music would have kept their interest. They only made it about 1/3 through and decided it was too boring. They loved the 2nd Christina's Chronicles today though, I think it was just faster paced overall and had more humor to it.
Saw it last week. It's a lot of good whimsical fun that you don't see much of nowadays. Might require some people to break themselves of certain habits when watching movies (otherwise you will, like me, be saying "that doesn't make any sense" a lot). But overall it's worth a watch. And the music is fantastic. The opening number and that "Make it Work Again" song were absolutely incredible.