Jingle Smells

First of all, all the 10 star reviews were obviously posted by the producers of the film, because no one in their right mind would give this film a 10. I am a conservative Christian and I'm certainly aware of cancel culture, but this film falls apart in so many ways. It is poorly written, poorly acted, and the story line is just awful!

Cancel culture is a real thing, and this film does that issue a disservice.

The only thing I found entertaining was that it was 'kind of' snowing on a sunny day in New Mexico. And then it stopped snowing, and then it started snowing again. Also, it seemed like Christmas had already taken place, and then they went back and had it again. Clearly confusing!

Don't waste your $19.99!

I heard about this film from a podcast, and decided to have a watch party with friends. We watched another John Schneider film a few months ago and made it a drinking game every time the actors sounded like a Fox News commentator covering a klan rally and we literally had to stop the game 15 minutes in.

So I'm very glad we decided against doing the same drinking game with this film, because merely watching this movie 'cancels' enough brain cells.

It's not a surprise this sad little pile is just a cheap string of every conservative trope for playing the victim card. But that's just what you get whenever John Schneider makes a move.

I watched this movie with my Grams hoping it would be good, but it ended up being pretty bad, acting pretty bad, and the whole storyline is really weird... We were hoping to like this movie, but we ended up just criticizing it the whole way through! 👎 and the price is a lot for what it is... $20 for what! Three out of 10 don't really recommend way too expensive and overall just not a really good movie! I even was drinking my hot cocoa, and it almost came out of my mouth because of us laughing at it lol not trying to be mean though just giving my honest review! Watch it if you want just me personally I don't recommend it.

I don't really know what to say except I'm not exaggerating that this is the worst movie I've ever seen and it will haunt me forever. It's a comedy that's filled with humour at the same level as a Saturday morning kids show but then again what do you expect from a movie called Jingle Smells for crying out loud? Half the cast aren't even actors, they're wrestlers and political figures, and the other half are actors so washed up they're happy just to have a pay check and don't even try to put on a decent performance and don't even get me started on the religious and political messages they fog horn every few minutes.

Sorry to say, but I REALLY wanted to like this movie, I really did. I am a conservative talk show junkie and an ardent fan of the Sean Hannity shows and was looking forward to the release of this movie and bought it to show my family after Thanksgiving dinner. Before the family (four of us) arrived, I previewed the first few minutes of the movie and liked what I saw so far.

After we finished Thanksgiving dinner I put the movie on. My 38 year old son paid close attention while my wife and daughter kinda chatted paying less attention.

There were a couple laughs, but not many. Before long my son went to the girls and the thee of them chatted while I watched the movie.

The guest hosts on the Wednesday'S Hannity show really, REALLY, hyped the movie having several of the stars of the show on to talk about their experience making the movie. They likened the movie to Nat. Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (which the wife and I watch TWICE every season) and Home Alone (which we also watch every season).

I kept waiting for the movie to "take off." But it just kept plodding along with very little sense of it being a Christmas movie. If it was on TV when you're changing channels and came across it part way through, you'd be hard pressed to know it's a Christmas show. The only clue, most of the time, was Jingle Smells, the main character, wearing a Santa hat.

Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, The Santa Clause, etc., all give you a sense of traditional Christmases, Jingle Smells doesn't.

Since I bought it, own it, I might watch it again and see if there's something I didn't get the first time, but my wife won't watch it with me, SORRY TO SAY!