The Merry Gentlemen (2024) Review

When Ashley a Broadway dancer finds herself out of her dream job right before Christmas she heads home to her small town and must help her parents save the nightclub they have owned for years.

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Everything came crashing down very quickly for Ashley who had been living her dream as a dancer on Broadway in NYC, but let go due to her age and replaced by a much younger girl was not the Christmas present she desired. In an attempt to re-group and decide what she must do next she heads back home and finds out that her parents are struggling to keep the club they own going.

This becomes her new project and with Luke at the core she decides that new all male show would help raise some much needed funds and get people back in the club. It quickly becomes a hit and people cannot get enough of the men on stage, basically this is Magic Mike at Christmas.

Natually as this is a Cheesy Christmas film we then get a very quick romance, with Luke and Ashley drawn towards one another. I must say though that this type of film offers some strange hope, not once when my life has fallen apart has a very attractive man come in to help me pick up the pieces. That happens to Ashley though and despite the success she is then given some interesting choices about her own life.

Britt Robertson and Chad Michael Murray are decent enough in the leading roles. Maxwell Caulfield was a good addition and we get Aunt Zelda making an appearance, sorry I meant Beth Broderick (why as a 90s kid do we have certain actors that we can only relate to those teen shows we used to watch?).

It’s not truly terrible and has some okay moments, certainly one of the better entries in this strange genre that seems to grow each year!

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