The 2024 Christmas lineup is heating up over on Netflix. The extremely anticipated Chad Michael Murray-led flick The Merry Gents lastly made its debut on the streaming service, and the web is having quite a lot of enjoyable with it, although critics aren’t so certain concerning the spicy vacation movie. Personally, I used to be trying ahead to seeing how they managed to mix the intercourse enchantment of Magic Mike with the vacation wholesomeness anticipated with these romance motion pictures. Sadly, I spent most of its runtime completely distracted by the complicated approach it determined to include the Netflix Christmas Cinematic Universe into its story.
For many who usually are not accustomed to it, the Netflix Christmas Cinematic Universe began again in 2018 and is paying homage to Marvel’s cinematic universe. It often entails characters watching standard Netflix vacation motion pictures of their downtime — like Lacey Chabert’s Scorching Frosty character who occurred to be watching Lindsay Lohan’s Falling for Christmas. Or these characters pop up or are talked about in a movie — as is accustomed to the royal vacation motion pictures the streamer places out.
Most motion pictures persist with one type of connection since they’re all so interconnected, however The Merry Gents appeared eager on altering even that. Whereas it was enjoyable to see two motion pictures referenced within the Christmas-themed male revue, it doesn’t completely make sense based mostly on what we all know concerning the linked universe.
Ashley Unwinds By Watching A Christmas Prince On Netflix
The primary time we see the Netflix Christmas Cinematic Universe at work is when Ashley (Britt Robertson) streams A Christmas Prince at her dwelling in New York after getting fired from her beloved job. After all, it’s at some of the romantic moments of the movie when Prince Richard asks American journal journalist Amber Moore to bounce with him for the primary time.
The entire issues occur within the first ten minutes of the movie, which is perhaps a brand new document for a way shortly the Netflix Christmas Cinematic Universe will get launched.
The Princess Change’s Prince And Princess Of Belgravia Have Visited The Rhythm Room
A couple of minutes later, followers get their second NCCU Easter Egg when Ashley is looking the partitions of pictures and newspaper clippings at her household’s beloved music venue, The Rhythm Room.
Whereas most of them go by shortly, the digicam spends an additional second or two panning over an article that reveals Prince Edward (Sam Palladio) and Princess Stacy (Vanessa Hudgens) posing exterior the venue. After all, that is the beloved commoner-royal couple from Netflix’s hit trilogy The Princess Change.
However Primarily based On The Present Netflix Christmas Cinematic Universe, This Would not Make Sense
Whereas these two Easter Eggs are enjoyable, it completely messes up what we all know concerning the NCCU. If The Merry Gents wished to incorporate two connections to different vacation motion pictures, it ought to have chosen two that aren’t already linked.
In spite of everything, each Netflix Christmas film superfan is aware of that the royals in A Christmas Prince and The Princess Change have met a number of occasions in every of the assorted sequels of the respective franchises.
With this in thoughts, it doesn’t make sense that A Christmas Prince could be a film in Ashley’s universe whereas the Prince and Princess of Belgravia are actual individuals who have interacted with Ashley’s household. If something, they each ought to have been canon or they each ought to have been motion pictures.
If Netflix desires to maintain the believability of the NCCU alive, they positively have to get higher at deciding on which motion pictures join with one another. Fortuitously, most individuals who tune in for The Merry Gents with their Netflix subscription aren’t going to thoughts the small inconsistency. Nonetheless, as an avid NCCU fan, I am unable to cease serious about it.