Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh
- Drake Bell: Drake Parker
- Josh Peck: Josh Nichols
- Miranda Cosgrove: Megan Parker
- Nancy Sullivan Audrey Parker -Nichols
- Jonathan Goldstein: Walter Nichols
- Jerry Trainor: Crazy Steve
- Yvette Nicole Brown: Helen
- Kevin " Kimbo Slice" Ferguson: bludge
- Camille Goldstein: Violet
- Cosette Goldstein: Lily
- David Gore: Zigfee
- Devon Graye: Luke
- Bailee Madison: Mary Alice
- David Pressman: Officer Gilbert
- Daven Wilson: Trey
- Tanner Blaze: Officer Gilbert in childhood
Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (working title: Drake & Josh: Best Christmas Ever ) is a produced by Dan Schneider and Lauren Levine comedy from 2008 about the series Drake & Josh. Filming began on August 23, 2008. The film was broadcast on 5 December 2008 in the United States on the television channel Nickelodeon. In Germany the film was broadcast on December 19, 2009 at 18:15 clock on Nick. Directed by Michael Grossman. Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh is the first film of the series Drake & Josh, which was filmed in high definition. It is the last rotation of Drake & Josh.
Action
After Drake and Josh have their parents Audrey and Walter, who want to go on vacation adopted, the two make their way to the cinema, on the Drake Josh invites you to a party on the roof of the cinema. Josh accepts this. Arrived as both the cinema boss Helen Drake is a job as Santa Claus; Josh gets out of its bag. Meanwhile Audrey and Walter get to see their hut -like bungalow. In the cinema Drake meets Santa Claus as little Mary Alice, who wants the best Christmas present they 've ever had. Then Drake promises her to worry about it.
In the evening, several youths riot at the party, after which Josh calls the police. This keeps him mistaken for one of these young people and arrests him. In handcuffs Josh falls from the roof of the cinema into a pickup that is driven away shortly thereafter. The police see this as trying to escape Josh's and drive the car afterwards. Then Josh falls out of the car on the road and is taken to prison, where his cellmate wants him beat bludge to strengthen its reputation as a bat. Since bludge and Josh but may begin to imitate both just a brawl.
In the cinema Drake Mary Alice meets again, who tells him how bad it go to their family. She reminds him also working to fulfill her wish, which he can not do without his brother's help. Without further ado, he is helping this to an outbreak. Still on the grounds of the prison, but they are caught and brought to justice. There they receive legal assistance from Helen. Both are acquitted. This is only true under the condition that they Mary Alice fulfill her wish, which is controlled by Officer Gilbert who creates them tracking devices. So Drake and Josh go to the house of Mary Alice. Along the way they punished Officer Gilbert with $ 400 for bad driving. At Mary Alice Drake and Josh get to know their family, the. Zigfee from speaking an unknown language, the sisters Lily and Violet, who constantly argue, Trey, who apparently knows a lot, and the curmudgeonly Luke is From this point on, help Drake and Josh of the family in the Christmas preparations, giving them Officer Gilbert complicated by several young people rushing on them, steal them clothes. The consequence for the brothers is a penalty of $ 400 for public nakedness. Then lets Officer Gilbert Drake tow car he gets back for $ 900. Because Drake and Josh no longer want to sabotage by the officer, they give her little sister Megan a Smith Royal oboe when she takes them the tracking devices. This she does. She then secured the equipment in a model helicopter and flies it over the area, which the officer is confused.
Go Some time later, Drake, Josh and Mary Alice family in the woods to get a Christmas tree. Since this chaos arises, they simply use a wooden frame as a tree. Megan night ignites a firecracker in the room of her brothers, because it has not received oboe and tells them that they have the tracking devices mounted again on their bodies. The next day, Drake and Josh sing Christmas carols with the family for the other residents in the street. Since the songs do not seem to be very popular, they give a real concert, which also Luke, who did not want to first begin to sing. Although the performance was pleased the people, Drake and Josh have to pay a penalty again. Josh wants to know why Officer Gilbert him and his brother complicates the work and goes to his mother. She tells him that her son hate Christmas. As a child he has been given a monkey that has very frightened him, what has influenced him over the years. Order to escape further punishment, Josh wants to give him another monkey. On the day after Drake and Josh go with Mary Alice Family on a Christmas parade where Officer Gilbert they sabotaged again. He is Crazy Steve the statement, Drake and Josh to the consequences of not completing their task to remember. But Mary Alice and her family know nothing of the agreement with the court that after she learned of this, injured. In order to make their wrongs, want snow machine produce snow Drake and Josh the family with the help of Crazy Steve's.
At police headquarters Officer Gilbert gets his monkey. Now, Drake and Josh arrived before Mary Alice house with the snow machine. When they introduce the alleged artificial snow in this, they realize that this ice cream is so many panes of glass shatter in the street. When trying to shut down the machine, both stuck at this and pass out. The next morning they wake up in her room, where they Officer Gilbert reveals that they have to go to jail. Then they go into the living room, where reside all their acquaintances, including the family of Mary Alice. This is intended to indicate there whether they have got the best Christmas they ever had. All, including Zigfee answer with: Yes. Then bludge comes as Santa Claus in the fireplace and distributed gifts. At the end of the film it snows thanks to the snow machine of Crazy Steve cheese. Then Audrey and Walter come back from their holiday.
Others
- The film was not in San Diego, where he plays reportedly turned but in Valencia, a part of the California city of Santa Clarita.
- In Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh Drake driving a blue Chevrolet Camaro convertible, which he also drove in the go Drake & Josh to Hollywood.
- As Josh with his computer researched Officer Gilbert and using his laptop on the Internet for an ape for him examined, one can see on the laptop a pear sticker, which was probably glued on the basis of the logo of Apple, as in all Nickelodeon series.
- In Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh for the first time other parts of the premises of Drake and Josh's parents' house are shown.
- The film had in its first airing on 5 December 2008 8.1 million viewers, making it the most watched movie on the TV channel Nickelodeon.
- The license plate of the wrong lawyer, the Drake falls victim to FakeLawr is (meaning fake Lawyer ), what is called in German fake lawyer.
- Since December 19, 2008 Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh is available on DVD.
- In the film, Drake and Josh look at a place far away and switches as Josh, you can see a section of the iWeb Awards from the movie iCarly: Trouble in Tokyo and you can see an excerpt from the series " Zoey looking " from the series Zoey 101.
- In one scene, Drake and Josh are at Mary Alice and her family home, where Drake sits or stands, is a plush octopus. The same plush octopus has also Zoey Brooks from the series " Zoey101 ".
- In a scene where Josh is tied up in the rear of a pickup truck, you can hear the song Christmas Wrapping by Miranda Cosgrove.
- In the scene is photographed in Josh at the police station after his arrest, on the sign that he holds in the camera next to his name, his prisoners registration number. He has the number NCC -1701, the same registration number as that of the Enterprise from the series STAR TREK.
- When Crazy Steve drives off in his DeLorean, falls from his mark, turns on the lower left corner counterclockwise in a circle and then falls to the ground. This scene is a tribute to Back to the Future, where the 1st and 3rd part of the trilogy, the respective indicator ( Part 1: " OUTATIME ", Part 3: barcode) of Doc Browns DeLorean exactly the same spin -Move makes, even at the first time travel (Part 1) and a second time after the DeLorean was wrecked by an oncoming train ( part 3).
Reviews
"The film critic Robert Lloyd said in the Los Angeles Times: There is absolutely no relation in between what happens in this movie and how things work in the real world. In German: There is absolutely no similarity between what happens in this film and the way to go with the things in the real world vonstatten ".
Synchronization
In November 2009, the synchronization work began and was completed in December 2009.