A Clusterfunke Christmas (Comedy Central)(2021) This movie wasn't just long expected......it was inevitable.....
And Hallmark sure had it coming..........turning its modest little Canadian produced holiday romances into a marketing, merchandising and pop culture behemoth.......which led to every other streaming venue grinding out their own imitation Hallmark movies like assembly line sausages......
Which is why you'd now have to sit in front of your TV around the clock for the next twenty years or so just to catch up on this year's batch of Christmas movies......
So hats off to former SNL alums Rachel Dratch and Ana Gasteyer for fashioning a letter perfect, on target satire of those movies everyone loves to mock......even though they're curled up on the couch every weekend to watch them.
The script by Dratch and Gasteyer manages to sling hilarious satirical arrows at every single Hallmark Christmas movie trope.......the harried 30-something exec sent to a quaint small town to buy them out to make way for condos and golf courses.......the hunky town handyman you know she'll fall for.......the lovable, eccentric seniors (played the screenwriters themselves)......the obnoxious ex-boyfriend showing up at the wrong time......the eternal 'plucking pizzicato' on the music score'......a town full of warm-hearted, semi-diverse residents......(including at least one actor who keeps letting their heavy Canadian accent slip into their lines.....)
And if you can't figure out why all this sounds funny, you'd have to watch at least one genuine Hallmark movie to get the jokes here.
By all means, treat yourself to a double feature of a Hallmark offering, followed by 'A Clusterfunke Christmas'......(hint: it's the latter one that's intentionally hilarious.....4 stars (****).
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