so the album essentially sounded like The Archies. Only it wasn’t a cartoon. So nobody wanted it. In 1972, Dante met jingle-writer/future schlockmeister Barry Manilow at a commercial gig for ...

If not anything, Zoya Akthar’s musical The Archies ... with the Christmas mood, it’s actually bland. An already predictable story-line is extended and made slower by the many songs.