Ishani (Megha Sandhu), Taijah (Alicia Richardson) and Mei-Ling (Erika Prevost) used to be a girl group until a talent show goes wrong. They stop being friends and life just starts to feel darker. Santa (Steven Vlahos) sends them back in time - that's all the holiday this movie has, because it's really about the girls getting to experience the 00s again even if they look as old as they are now, so the Hot Tub Time Machine influence is apparent beyond just the name of this. Why else would Taijah's cousin Caleb (Gabriel Davenport), someone unconnected to their era, go back, just like that movie having the younger friend being involved? Ah, it's Christmas. I will cut a Tubi Original a break.
While she's back in time, the thirtysomething teenager - I know that's what I always say about teen comedies but this is really true - Mei-Ling hooks up with the most popular boy in school so that she can get past the trauma of not being popular. So she uses a young hot boy to get what she wants. Hmm. Should I keep being nice to this movie now?
Everyone in the past says. "Prime directive?" and uses what they know of the future which is their past to start changing the present to change this past which is now their present and the paradoxes! The parallel realities they are creative! The buttery on a wheel! Or whatever! Look, I'm no scientist.
Also, shout out to jamesmcnabb on Letterboxd who rightly points out that this band has no drummer, no guitarist, three vocalists and one that plays bass and the other keyboards, but just knows how to start the presets like that old Casio bossa nova demo. Are they reinventing the way we see rock? Or whatever music this is? Is the future not just female, as Ishani graffitis on a brick wall, but also just bass and keyboards and three women singing?
What has this movie taught us about the spirit of Christmas?
At least they didn't steal rock music from black people, which is another time travel thing that I've never got over. Like I want to make a movie with Body Count where they go back in time and knock out McFly and then Ice T gets with her mom and says stuff like, "Damn, d***" while Ernie C shreds and the Hill Valley High School dweebs just stare and T snarls,. "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it. Yo Beatmaster V, take these ****** ******* ******* back to South Central." I mean, I would watch that movie.
While she's back in time, the thirtysomething teenager - I know that's what I always say about teen comedies but this is really true - Mei-Ling hooks up with the most popular boy in school so that she can get past the trauma of not being popular. So she uses a young hot boy to get what she wants. Hmm. Should I keep being nice to this movie now?
Everyone in the past says. "Prime directive?" and uses what they know of the future which is their past to start changing the present to change this past which is now their present and the paradoxes! The parallel realities they are creative! The buttery on a wheel! Or whatever! Look, I'm no scientist.
Also, shout out to jamesmcnabb on Letterboxd who rightly points out that this band has no drummer, no guitarist, three vocalists and one that plays bass and the other keyboards, but just knows how to start the presets like that old Casio bossa nova demo. Are they reinventing the way we see rock? Or whatever music this is? Is the future not just female, as Ishani graffitis on a brick wall, but also just bass and keyboards and three women singing?
What has this movie taught us about the spirit of Christmas?
At least they didn't steal rock music from black people, which is another time travel thing that I've never got over. Like I want to make a movie with Body Count where they go back in time and knock out McFly and then Ice T gets with her mom and says stuff like, "Damn, d***" while Ernie C shreds and the Hill Valley High School dweebs just stare and T snarls,. "I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it. Yo Beatmaster V, take these ****** ******* ******* back to South Central." I mean, I would watch that movie.
