Netflix delivers another seasonal rom-com with this tame Magic Mike meets The Fully Monty at Christmas mash-up. It virtually writes itself, as a young dancer Ashley has to raise $30,000 in ten days to save her family's failing small-town bar/club from closure. Hitting on the idea of an all-male dance revue in a single spectacularly-contrived scene, with an conveniently instantly-available quartet of ordinary local guys (bartender, diner owner, taxi driver, carpenter) who are buff and can dance, the film soon becomes little more than an excuse for former teen-girl heartthrob Chad Michael Murray as the sensitive handyman to get his shirt off at regular intervals, with Britt Robertson as Ashley powering through the nonsense with reasonable commitment, especially when the romantic sub-plot between the two lead hurtles out of nowhere and the tiny revue becomes inexplicably popular. Daft and rigidly formulaic, this simple festive rom-com drifts by harmlessly.
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