Mariah Carey's Merriest Christmas (2015)
The one-hour musical special features outstanding performances of holiday songs by the incomparable pop diva herself - Mariah Carey - including a duet with 11-time Grammy Award winner Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds. Emmy Award winner Kelsey Grammer gives an unforgettable reading of “The Night Before Christmas.” Billy Gardell (“Mike & Molly”) appears as Santa Claus. Additionally, cast members from “A Christmas Melody” - Lacey Chabert, Brennan Elliott and Fina Strazza – join the festivities sharing holiday memories and experiences from working with Mariah on-set during production of the movie.
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Takes itself way too seriously
Good story, Not enough for a whole film
The acting in this movie is really good.
The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
Mariah Carey is most famous for having the second widest range of any pop singer. Second only to Axl Rose from Guns 'N' Roses. And her Christmas special sucks.Mariah Carey waves her hands about like an amateur instead of singing from the heart. She's a superficial diva, and she looks like she's made of porcelain. Her performances of classic Christmas carols, such as Joy to the World, Silent Night, and God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman, are soulless and uninspired. She has an irritating love of praising herself, even having a parody of Siri proclaim its love for her and her music.In between the musical numbers are some lame comedy interludes about some dude dressed as Santa getting stuck in traffic on the way to the Christmas special. They're not funny. And in the end, he gets there and his costume turns out to be rubbish, so the real Santa takes over. This isn't even foreshadowed.It's a mild and undiverting piece of television. It's on Netflix, for some reason, and I don't know why anyone would watch it. I watched it because I thought it looked like trash, and it was. It's the kind of thing that will be useful to future historians so they can piece together what people were doing outside the major events of our time. Otherwise, it's just this weird thing about a singer who I didn't know was still relevant by 2015.