Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey review – a sugar rush of steampunk joy

Netflix’s festive fantasy about a kid and her inventor granddad is pure infectious energy – and with exquisite detailChristmas is coming.

And if anyone is not convinced it’s the most wonderful time of the year, here’s an excessively Christmassy Victorian-set musical on Netflix to batter you into good cheer.

In many ways, Jingle Jangle feels like a fairly boilerplate family movie (think Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or Willy Wonka) but with one big difference: the characters are mostly black.

There’s a brilliant scene where a group of children have a snowball fight on a Dickensian cobbled street.

Their ringleader is brainiac child genius Journey (Madalen Mills), a 10-year-old girl.

As the kids pelt each other with snowballs, a song by Ghanaian singer Bisa Kdei plays, and Journey and her friends break into African dance moves.

Their ethnicity is not the point of their characters or of the scene,

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