> For Henry Jackman and his former assistant Dominic Lewis, 2024 was a year
> of unfortunate attachments to underperforming content. Henry’s return from
> his parenting hiatus came on Dwayne Johnson’s fantasy action-comedy Red
> One about Santa’s bodyguard teaming up with a hacker to rescue a
> stolen Santa Claus. Reuniting with his Jumanji franchise director
> Jake Kasdan, Henry gave it the Christmas-adjacent version of what he’d
> done for those earlier films, again resulting in a thematic and
> technically proficient score that oddly lacks staying power. Likely that’s
> because, as Jackman once said, you have to write around the jokes, though
> given the movie’s tepid critical reception and commercial performance
> perhaps it’s more fair to say he had to write around the attempts at jokes
> this time. With the Russo brothers using Alan Silvestri on their upcoming
> movie and onetime collaborator Matthew Vaughn seeming to have pivoted to
> Lorne Balfe on a full-time basis, it remains unclear where Henry will go
> next.

I haven't seen Red One, only heard the soundtrack, but Christian says in his review that there's a significant amount of music missing on the album. And it certainly felt incomplete to me, possibly contributing to its lack of staying power.