Disney+ kicks off their 2025 festive season with this very strange movie that is clearly designed as a gift for the Jonas Brothers' young and devoted fans. It starts at the end of a long tour at their gig in London (and a cameo from Will Ferrell as an uber-fan) and finds the brothers tired and their differences surfacing, until a magical intervention by 'Santa' leaves them stranded when their private plane explodes, and trying to get home for the holidays sets them on an improbable trip that takes in Amsterdam and Germany in an attempt to heal the brothers' relationship. The film trades on the brothers' clearly tight and professional bonhomie and their slickly pleasant throwaway pop stylings, following a familiar semi-musical-film format with a few largely-forgettable songs music-video-style linking some very weird scenarios, Trapped awkwardly between an examination of the pop/entertainment industry machine, their sibling relationship and a deconstruction of the Christmas movie genre whilst simultaneously trying to deliver a feel-good festive offering (and even KJ Apa pops in to take off his shirt and crash an aeroplane) all makes for a very bizarre and inconsistent mix that makes it hard to comprehend what you have just been watching for a brief eighty minutes.
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