It’s another movie about a singer! I find it interesting that there always seems to be some sort of theme every year. Is there some sort of writers meeting where they decide these things?

Jaylen (Noemi Gonzalez) is a newly famous pop star. When she starts to get stalkerish messages at her rented home in Los Angeles, her record company insists on sending a bodyguard with her when she goes home for the holiday. However, Jaylen doesn’t want to tell her family that he is her bodyguard. Instead, she tells them that Matt (Stephen Huszar) is her boyfriend.

The general premise of Undercover Holiday is good - needing a bodyguard when a public persona has been threatened. But not telling her family that he is a bodyguard is stupid. I understand not wanting to worry them and I understand that something like this would result in her family nagging her to move home more than they already do. You would think that saying “Hey, there was an incident and this is how we are solving it” would be a good response to that. Pretending that he is your boyfriend is the worst thing Jaylen could have done.

With that said, I did appreciate the amount of music in the movie. Granted, a lot of it was Jaylen singing a few lines while sitting in front of a piano. But it is more than some other movies with singers have given us. And this time we get bilingual songs as Jaylen also sings in Spanish.

Despite thinking the plot of Undercover Holiday is stupid, the movie itself wasn’t too bad. Jaylen’s family was a lot of fun and it was interesting to see Matt try to integrate with them. Go ahead and watch this one. It won’t be the best movie you’ve watched this season but it won’t be the worst.