Synopsis
After his sudden firing, a popular radio DJ moves in with his aunt, bringing along his four spoiled children, and a plan to return to the airwaves.
2019 Directed by Leslie Small
After his sudden firing, a popular radio DJ moves in with his aunt, bringing along his four spoiled children, and a plan to return to the airwaves.
The kids are hands down the worst characters in movie history but thankfully Romany Malco and the films huge heart make up for it.
Holiday Rush is a average overall holiday movie meaning it's not a terrible movie but also not a great movie neither. While it has decent performances, not too bad of a production quality, some heartwarming moments, and good music. It also has unlikeable uninspired characters, a plot that has been done multiple times, weak direction, and tedious pacing.
Worth a look if you got nothing better to do, but there are better Christmas movies to watch out there.
5/10
Watched on Netflix (after all, a Netflix Original movie).
An oddly humbling viewing experience. I don’t usually review Netflix’s more generic Christmas rom-coms because there’s only so many times you can say something is bland and lifeless. They’re all very bad in very similar ways, and because they don’t really presume to be anything more than what they are, I just end up feeling like I’m punching down. But in this case, each time I felt as if I’d caught Holiday Rush engaging in some seriously dumb or incompetent storytelling, the film immediately changed course to reveal how those narrative contradictions were actually critical to its thematic work. I mean, the whole thing is still totally bland and lifeless in all the ways you’d expect. But it’s also a nice reminder of all the hard work and thought that goes into making this junk. 🎁
“There are five of us. That is a whole mess of people in that tiny house.”
y’all are hating on the kid from Marriage Story but let me tell you he’s got nothing on these spoiled brats here 😩 most annoying shits this side of christmas eve.
i was hoping they were gonna have to pay for it at some point but alas the only one who truly had to slave was their dad. liked Romany Malco a lot, he brings fun & feels into an otherwise super bland story. i’m disappointed that they didn’t give the radio station more screen time and we barely ever see Rush actually work. main attraction is Roxy though cause she holds this thing together with her thousand watt smile. Sonequa Martin-Green marry meeeeeeeee
I really was not a fan and even though I watched it a few hours ago all I can remember is that the dad is super rich from being on the radio and that the kids are so annoying. Seriously, if I were to talk to my parents that way I would get in so much trouble! It was just frustrating to watch and it made me more annoyed than anything else! I would not recommend this movie, it really was not good and I wanted to like it but it was a let down. I think my mom somewhat enjoyed it though!
I don't have a lot say about this film other then it's just really bad but I want to post at least one review every day for the rest of the year and I'm working on a lot of reviews for films I actually have something to say about so look out for those. Anyways Holiday Rush is a bad movie not just because of how ridiculous and ludicrous the writing and execution was but because the film didn't know it actually had something kind of special. Instead of making the primary story about passion and how kids take life for granted they could have made a film about a father who thinks he knows what's best but doesn't and…
Every year Netflix releases a handful of original Christmas films, some are good, some are so bad they are good and others are just plain bad, 'Holiday Rush' is just plain bad.
Decent and enjoyable but probably would not watch again. Kind of unbelievable how well-off they were from their dad’s job as a radio DJ, I mean it could happen but Rush is no Funkmaster Flex. Anyway, the ending was really cute!
This is what happens when you feed the worst ten Christmas movies of every year into an AI that trys to combine them and make a movie for babies out of it.
🎄December 2020 Christmas List🎄
It’s nice to see a Christmas movie where all the characters are black, and it’s not a big deal. Unfortunately, the plot is very by the numbers, and the direction doesn’t give it any more energy. Additionally, the kids are so spoiled in the beginning that it’s hard to sympathize with them.
Some of the plot logic didn’t make much sense either. The auntie character just happened to have thousands of dollars in cash lying in a box? And apparently, two people can run a radio station all by themselves. Good ideas at heart and a couple of moments were legitimately funny.
But a great deal of the story felt too convenient for the sake of moving the movie forward. The budget is blatantly low too, but the actors, including the kids, are pretty good. In the end, I suppose it puts you into the Christmas spirit. Two stars.
Added to: Christmas Films I’ve Seen, Ranked
This was so bad that it almost caused me physical pain. And I won’t even get into how these characters are just a very cringe and badly made version of the “Black-ish” ones.
Holiday Rush is a average overall holiday movie meaning it's not a terrible movie but also not a great movie neither. While it has decent performances, not too bad of a production quality, some heartwarming moments, and good music. It also has unlikeable uninspired characters, a plot that has been done multiple times, weak direction, and tedious pacing.
Worth a look if you got nothing better to do, but there are better Christmas movies to watch out there.
5/10
Watched on Netflix (after all, a Netflix Original movie).
I checked this out for Sonequa Martin-Green because how bad could it be with her in it, but it's very much the Romany Malco show and she's pretty sidelined. The blackness of the movie is cool - the only white people who speak are a contractor and a waiter - but otherwise it's kinda just the bland Christmas movie you'd expect.
Also, people warned me, but these kids are unrepentant spoiled brats for like an hour of the movie and I was still not prepared for it. It's the worst. They make the kid from Jingle All The Way seem well-adjusted.
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