Our christmas journey cast9/13/2023 Townspeople perform a step dance break (inspired by the traditional African-American dance form) during the rousing song ‘Make It Work’. Jeronicus and Journey have a snowball fight to the sounds of a festive highlife remix (Bisa Kdei’s Asew). Black cultural influences on the film are seen throughout – a welcome respite from the historical whiteness of the genre. Jingle Jangle is a story about love, family and redemption, with moralistic lessons on the importance of accepting each other’s differences.īut this is not to say that it is entirely conventional. Though the diverse inhabitants of Cobbleton immediately set the film apart from many fantastical festive films of the past, what follows is a relatively traditional Christmas narrative. Journey represents everything that Jangle has lost: joy, hope, wonder and a belief in the power of possibility. ![]() Enter Journey Jangle (impressive newcomer Madalen Mills), the estranged granddaughter who is determined to connect with her mysterious kin in spite of his vocal disinterest. ![]() If he doesn’t come up with the money to pay his outstanding bills or deliver on the long overdue promise of a new, revolutionary invention by Christmas, he will be thrown out on the streets. When his disgruntled apprentice Gustafson (Miles Barrow and Keegan-Michael Key), spurred on by the toymaker’s latest creation Don Juan Diego (Ricky Martin), steals his book of inventions, Jangle is left uninspired and unable to recapture the magic of innovation which he once possessed.ĭecades later Jangle is bitter and alone, having been forced to turn his once thriving toy business into a pawnshop, and not a particularly profitable one at that. Jingle Jangle is a musical spectacle, telling the story of Jeronicus Jangle (portrayed at different ages by Justin Cornwell and Forest Whitaker) who was once the most renowned toy inventor in all of Cobbleton, the fictional Victorian town where this tale unfolds. ![]() So he set out to make a film that encapsulated the wonder of these stories with a cast that reflected him and his family to show that people of colour can exist in magical worlds too. When David E Talbert, the writer and director of Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, went to show his son the movies which he had loved as a child – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Doctor Dolittle (the original, not the Eddie Murphy remake) – he saw that something was missing: Black people. Forest Whitaker stars as a down-on-his-luck toymaker in David E Talbert’s festive family frolic.
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