Movie let it snow cast11/6/2023 So, welp, you can only imagine how the rest of the this went down.Ĭosmo hit them with a tried-and-true, American treasure- Elf-first, where they were asked "What does Buddy the Elf like to eat with his spaghetti?" And Odeya was quick to answer, proving her greatness in Christmas movie knowledge, and was correct! I'm not even going to write the answer here because I expect you to have this script memorized *rolls eyes.*Īfter a few more questions, some of them establish a couple of points, but with Jacob and Shameik still at zero. Before they even played the damn game, the stars opened up about how competitive they all are. ![]() The stars of Let It Snow (which is based on a New York Times bestseller by John Green) Kiernan Shipka, Mitchell Hope, Shameik Moore, Jacob Batalon, and Odeya Rush really battled it out for the holiday trivia crown, let me tell ya. So we decided to put the cast of the new Netflix Christmas-time flick, Let It Snow, to the test to see how well they knew their ~holly jolly~ movies. Try and fight my statement, but you know deep down that I'm right! I know you binge-watch Hallmark's Countdown to Christmas! Oh, and you know that you and your best friends memorize every line to some holiday classic film-*ahem* Home Alone *ahem*. “Let It Snow” can’t even get that right.If there's any type of movie that everyone in the world universally loves, it's Christmas movies. Because even if Christmas rom-coms work with the lowest bar of movie-watching expectations, and are primarily about gifting you exactly what you expect, it’s the thought that counts. ![]() “Let It Snow” is predictable and prodding at best-that's not the problem. Duke and Tobin have an impromptu church organ duet to The Waterboys’ “The Whole of the Moon,” and while that scene might bungle the tension between them-it makes their feelings so frustratingly obvious-it’s probably the best example of the movie's otherwise dissipating cuteness. The farthest this script goes with giving them some color is in the music choices, which either leads to the catchy needle drops that surround them (Slow Club, BØRNS, Georgia, and other bands this movie hipped me to), or scenes in which they sing and dance. The underserved all-star cast of "Let It Snow" is at least striking enough to distract you from the fact that these characters have little personality outside of the flaws they need fixed. Cusack even talks about Christmas Eve as if it were a prom night in a Hughes story, wistfully saying that it’s “It's the eve of everything, of the rest of your life.” But those Hughes tales know that a little gravity makes the lighter stuff stand out more-the biggest standout device is a beer keg that's treated like a sacred Christmas turkey, even though everyone is underage. The whole enterprise gets some '80s teen comedy energy with two major factors: it takes place in an Illinois suburb like John Hughes movies do, and Joan Cusack appears as a wise snowplow driver who is covered in tin foil. It's funny when Julia dismisses snow as the “Spanx of weather,” but "Let It Snow" doesn't give her enough of that wit, or anyone else. ![]() It doesn’t have those beats that help characters take after the charisma of their respective actors, or the inspired comedy that shakes up such automatic storytelling. With so many characters to juggle, and emotional boo-boos to nurse, “Let It Snow” always feels in motion, in a bad way. ![]() You can guess where all of these stories go-it’s not just the Waffle House party denouement, arranged by cheesy DJ Keon ( Jacob Batalon of " Spider-Man: Homecoming"), that’s the obvious destination-you’ll just wish it tried to be more fun and funny along the way. Then, there’s the frustrated Addie ( Odeya Rush of “ Lady Bird”), who is so caught up in getting attention from her crummy boyfriend that she pushes away her truly accepting friend Dorrie ( Liv Hewson of “Santa Clarita Diet”), who has her own problems crushing on a girl who isn't out. Across town, the neurotic Tobin ( Mitchell Hope of “Descendants”) wants to say something to his Sonic Youth t-shirt-wearing friend and longtime crush The Duke ( Kiernan Shipka, of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”), but is just too gosh darn shy to do so. They're like junior versions of rom-com prototypes, like introverted Julie ( Isabela Moner from “ Dora and the Lost City of Gold,”) who hangs out with a famous, secretly lonely pop star named Stewart ( Shameik Moore of “ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”), and downplays what others would consider a fantasy day with him. Adapted from the book by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle, director Luke Snellin’s "Let It Snow" follows a group of high school seniors on a snowy Christmas Eve, each with some void to fill, or a vulnerability to be addressed.
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