Jingle Smells

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.

Plot

War vet Nick Gutman is forced to take a job with his dad's quirky garbage men buddies. When tasked to destroy canceled toys before Christmas - Nick takes on the secret identity "Jingle Smells" and becomes a Robin Hood of the Holidays.

Cast

Directed by Daniel Lusko known for politically bias films and documentaries including his "I'm a victim" movie where Christians are are persecuted this stars such barrel scrapers as John Schneider and Eric Roberts, political stooges Sean Hannity and Mike Huckabee and for some reason wrestler Dylan "Hornswoggle" Postl, James "Cowboy" Storm and er.... Eric Bischoff.

Verdict

Let it be known I don't like Christmas so unsurprisingly I don't tend to like Christmas movies. There have been exceptions such as Elf (2003) and I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998) but for the most part I find them offensively stupid and cannot fathom why anyone over the age of 6 would find them entertaining.

Lusko tries his hand at comedy and of course gets political every chance he gets, shoving down your throat a vile hatefilled intolerant mean spirited agenda alongside humor as funny as Melissa McCarthy. The theme is "Cancel culture" which let's not kid ourselves is just a term coined by people unhappy about facing the consequences of their actions.

It's not funny, it's not endearing, it's an unpleasant rancid watch and I'm honestly not sure who it's aimed at but I question the mentality of whoever enjoys it.

Rants

When the right accuses the left of putting agendas in movies/tv it's because it features diversity and they don't like that.

When the left accuses the right of putting agendas in movies/tv it's because it's filled with hateful anti-minority rhetoric.

The sides are not the same.

Breakdown Unfunny Politically motivated Embarrassingly poor cast.

Love the cast, honestly a bunch of great people coming together to make a fun family movie for the holidays. Sadly, it was for sure missing something and I couldn't pinpoint what.

The movie has a couple of political messages. I watch movies and tv to be entertained and get away from real life stuff, not for politics no mater if I agree with the politics or not.

Always good to see John Schneider. I watched Dukes of Hazzard reruns with my Uncle when I was young and I watched Smallville in my teens. Great actor and from what I can tell from my living room couch, a great guy in real life.

I also want to point out that the young Tyson Jones did great for his first on screen performance.

What can you expect from a movie called Jingle Smells? I mean really? Was it named by a child? The fact it's full of wrestlers as well tells you everything you need to know. And the right wing element is hilariously bad, honestly they may as well have just gone with KKKristmas and been done with it.

I cannot believe a) How bad the film is b) That the film was even made or c) Did I say how bad the film is?

And to the surprise of absolutely nobody the reviews section has loads of 10/10 reviews from profiles with no other activity. The director, the writer and Sean Hannity maybe?

The film is as funny as Hornswoggles career, not.

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.