Fiona Palomo

Milo Manheim

Omid Djalili

Rizwan Manji

Geno Segers

Moriah Peters

Joel Smallbone

Lecrae

Stephanie Gil

Antonio Cantos

María Pau Pigem

Alicia Borrachero

Antonio Gil

Antonio Banderas

Pedro Aijón

Ricard Serra

Juan José Marco

Eric Halverson

Juan Jesús Di Manuel

Daniela Riveri

Yaël Belicha

José María Rueda

Zoe Arnao

Manuel Lozano

Eduardo Rejón

Andrés Merino

Adrià Nebot

Fran Llorente

Eric Halfvarson

Panda the Donkey

Nick Moceri

Nikki Anders

Peter Barsocchini

Daniel Gutman

Sabrina Plisco

Juan Manuel Jimenez

Ángela Marín

Lena Mossum

José Luis Escolar

Zachary Woodlee

Leo Lavazza

Lisa Zagoria

Vicky Patel

Edou Hydallgo

Matt Boardman

Peer Åström

Eduardo Hidalgo

Xavi Giménez

Luci Lenox

David Temprano

Alex Anders

Derek Syverud

Stephen Meinen

Alan Powell

Adam Anders

Ryan Busse

Brandt Andersen

Steve Barnett

Family

Drama

Journey to Bethlehem

Affirm Films

SPACE + ART Entertainment

Monarch Media

Night Light

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Scene stealing megalomanic King Herod (Antonio Banderas) hams up marvellously in this enjoyable if totally forgettable pre-Nativity Christmas story. He presides over the kingdom of Judah towards which three magi are heading when they espy a bright star in the sky portending an event of great importance. Meantime, the well educated Mary (Fiona Paloma) is regaling against an arranged marriage with a man she's never even met! Anyway, times being what they are, she has to acquiesce and meets the fairly easy on the eye Joseph (Milo Manheim). It's not exactly hate a first sight, but one night she get's another - more celestial - visitor who leaves her with quite a belly ache. She tells her folks, then her would-be husband and is soon, unsurprisingly, on her own... Quite why Gabriel couldn't just have told everyone at once? Anyway, the increasingly paranoid Herod gets wind of this impending miracle and uses the three kings and his son Antipater (Joel Smallbone) to track down and destroy the potential usurper. That fact that we still celebrate Christmas eliminates any sense of jeopardy so this is essentially just a light-hearted piece of musical theatre that uses the two slightly soporific stars to tell us a story of when Mary met Joseph. The songs are standard fayre with plenty of perfect choreography, some earnest lyrics about love and loyalty (and a fun song from Banderas about absolute power) before Omid Djalili's visiting Melchior tries to explain what myrrh is for. It's wordy, cheesy but joyous seasonal stuff that I was rather surprised to find got a cinema release in the UK. You shouldn't hate it.

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