Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans wish you a very bro Christmas with “Red One,” full of slap fights, he-man snowmen and one jacked Santa. Director Jake Kasdan’s yuletide fantasy adventure (★★ out of four;

Red One” is a sour sugarplum of a Christmas treat, a cheerfully cynical action comedy for kids — especially the ones who asked Santa Claus for ninja stars and a Nerf gun. Director Jake Kasdan (“Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story”) and screenwriter Chris Morgan (“Fast Five”) present their take on Santa as a muscle-bound alpha male (J.

Dwayne Johnson is pleased with his latest movie, Red One, and believes it should be released on Imax screens like Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. In an interview, the Black Adam actor said that he watched Nolan’s World War II epic in the same Imax screening room the director uses to screen his films.