Netflix’s ‘naughtiest’ Christmas movie overtakes rival film as it’s watched 14,700,000 times

Netflix’s caller fig 1 movie comes from its awesome catalogue of archetypal festive flicks for 2024, dethroning its competitor with a precise akin strategy and nabbing astir 15,000,000 views successful the process.

The streaming level has become incredibly thirsty going into the Christmas play and its caller apical movie follows a akin steamy merchantability – namely, semi-naked men.

Following blistery connected the heels of Hot Frosty, a retelling of the Frosty the Snowman communicative from the iconic opus that replaces him with a blistery and chiselled topless crystal snowfall sculpture that comes to life, Netflix’s latest seasonal portion of amusement multiplies the antheral nudity.

In The Merry Gentlemen, Broadway dancer Ashley (Britt Robertson) decides that the lone mode she tin prevention her parents’ small-town performing venue is to signifier an all-male, Christmas-themed revue – obviously.

Enter twinkly section carpenter Luke (Chad Michael Murray), who happens to instrumentality precise small convincing to region his garment and gyrate onstage with 3 to 4 different section men.

The information that Sycamore Creek has adjacent 1 antheral consenting to portion and creation successful public, fto unsocial bash it nighttime aft nighttime arsenic portion of a troupe, requires an aggravated suspension of disbelief from the audience.

But The Merry Gentlemen has not captured its 14.7million views – from 21.6m hours watched successful conscionable its archetypal 3 days of merchandise – by being subtle.

Indeed, Murray archetypal gets to amusement disconnected his ripped physique by popping up from nether the barroom wherever Luke’s been fixing a descend topless, holding a spanner to his forehead successful astonishment arsenic ‘evidence’, because… reasons.

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With 1 blistery bod guaranteed, it’s past supremely adjuvant that Colt Prattes’ bartender Troy, Hector David Jr’s cab operator Ricky, retired grumpy barfly Danny (Grease 2 prima Maxwell Caulfield’s casting gives the crippled distant here) and Ashley’s brother-in-law Rodger (Marc Anthony Samuel) are each conveniently revealed to beryllium much than up to the task astatine manus too.

So appreciative fans are past treated to aggregate routines with themes/outfits from operation workers and cowboys to a Fosse-inspired fig with suspenders and bowler hats – and Luke adjacent finishes 1 of these by pulling down his jeans to uncover underwear emblazoned with ‘naughty elf’.

‘Chad Michael Murray: plumber, heartthrob, legend,’ posted @Giz_Trade connected X, portion @denby95711 quipped: ‘Chad fixing a sink? The cleanable blend of enigma and charm! Five stars!’

‘The Merry Gentlemen is an fantabulous Christmas movie. No plot, conscionable shirtless Chad Michael Murray for an hr and a half. And that’s truly each you request tbh,’ advised @OMG_Alanna.

‘The Merry Gentlemen: Chad Michael Murray sexy dances similar Magic Mike to Christmas euphony and falls successful emotion on the way. I springiness it a coagulated 5 Chads retired of 6 Michael Murrays,’ tweeted @FailPrime.

Rival Hot Frosty has not fallen acold though, arsenic it’s inactive successful 2nd spot on Netflix’s apical 10 chart, adding a further 12.7m views to its tally, making for an awesome wide full of 28.7m truthful far.

Christina Milian’s festive movie Meet Me Next Christmas is besides inactive pulling successful views, present successful seventh spot but adding different 5.9m views to marque 35.8m altogether.

There is inactive much being talented to viewers by Netflix this play arsenic contiguous marks the merchandise of Lindsay Lohan’s seasonal conveyance Our Little Secret.

It follows acrimonious exes (Lohan and Pretty Little Liars prima Ian Harding), who are forced to walk the festive play unneurotic aft discovering they are present dating siblings.

The Merry Gentlemen is streaming present connected Netflix.

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