In the ideal tradition of idealistic youth, the Naked Brothers Band sets discover in its latest movie to save the polar bears.
They don't closing the job, but the quest turns discover to be fun and maybe a little educational. Like the best Nickelodeon shows, it's also amusing for grownups, since its pivotal suffer is a mock on something that happened to the Beatles 40 years ago.
There's modify a little clear smooching between Nat Wolff, the advance singer and writer for the Naked Brothers, and Rosalina, who plays in the band.
And Nat and brother Alec better watch their young backs. Sometimes they get upstaged here by modify younger blood: Saoirse Scott, who plays Big Ella.
Nat is 13, Alec is 10. Saoirse is about 4 and she has an unshakeable belief in Santa Claus, the kind of 2-4/7/365 faith that saves the day modify if we can't be sure it saves every the polar bears.
The flick starts simply enough. The adornment is getting primed for a big concert, and when Alec asks for a funny DVD movie so he can kill some time, he's accidentally handed Al Gore's \"An Inconvenient Truth,\" instead of Cary Grant's \"The Awful Truth.\"
Alec watches it and declares that Al Gore is not a comedian. But Alec is touched by the part about a warming planet reducing polar assume habitat, so he persuades the adornment to donate proceeds from the show to save the bears.
As part of his heightened environmental awareness he also lobbies for a tour bus that doesn't run on gasoline, but \"horse poop.\"
Yes, there is some clear \"poop\" nutriment here.
There's also a Shakespearian humanities farce, a comedy of errors involving Nat and Rosalina (Allie DeMeco) and a whole string of misinterpreted signals and misdirected intentions.
What causes everything to almost fall apart, however, is Alec seeing a tour poster on which the Naked Brothers' picture is bigger than a picture of Santa Claus.
He innocently remarks, \"We're bigger than Santa Claus,\" a play on John Lennon's famous \"We're more popular than Jesus\" line that got the Beatles into trouble 42 years ago.
Nasty and clueless reporters immediately jump every over poor Alec, refusing to center to his account and behaving like ignorant brainless goons, which is certainly one way of looking at the honor media these days.
The resulting uproar forces the promoters to cancel the soldout concert, which is beatific for neither the adornment nor the bears. But meet when every seems lost, Big Ella steps in with exculpatory evidence and a individualized testimonial that crushes the shameful media and makes everything good.
To adult eyes, the strategy gets a little unsafe and the acting is uneven. But the core \"Naked Brothers\" conference should find it as fuzzy as a polar bear.
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