Irony
We Netflix'ed Keeping Up with the Steins and one may ask why did such a fluff movie make it into our home? There are so many more interesting, funny, deserving films waiting to be watched. I don't know, apparently a flub. We must have accidentally put it on the top of the queue.
Synopsis: It's a movie about a kid and his family who are about to have a Bar Mitzvah. Do they try to top the other Jews at Hebrew school with the party of the century?
Here's the irony: the first ad before the film was... SANTA CLAUSE 3. HAHAHA! (Jewish movie, Christian ad.)
Anyway, the movie BLEW. Ugh. It was only very briefly funny and then disintegrated into a whole mess of awful. Gary Marshall was the lame dead-beat grandpa, whats-her-name... Raymond's mother was a lame and underused grandmother, Jeremy Piven was a terrible and over the top dad, while the mom was pretty but didn't do much. There was a terrible nude scene with Gary Marshall and Daryl Hannah-his dream come true, I'm sure. There was a pointless and stupid scene with three 12-13 yr olds getting wasted. Heck, these two sentences make it sound like something bearable. Let me not trick you: it has about 1 hour of a stupid theme on forgiveness (I thought only God could forgive?). It felt about 3 hours long and we were shocked to see that it was less than 90 minutes.
Lame lame lame. DO NOT WATCH IT! It's not even good for kitsch value. How did it make it through so many hands to actually be released? If you're going to make a Bar Mitzvah movie (are there any other ones?) then make it good! You don't have much competition to dominate the genre (or create it, if it's that good). I want to see Rushmore meets B'nai Mitzvah. Haha!
Synopsis: It's a movie about a kid and his family who are about to have a Bar Mitzvah. Do they try to top the other Jews at Hebrew school with the party of the century?
Here's the irony: the first ad before the film was... SANTA CLAUSE 3. HAHAHA! (Jewish movie, Christian ad.)
Anyway, the movie BLEW. Ugh. It was only very briefly funny and then disintegrated into a whole mess of awful. Gary Marshall was the lame dead-beat grandpa, whats-her-name... Raymond's mother was a lame and underused grandmother, Jeremy Piven was a terrible and over the top dad, while the mom was pretty but didn't do much. There was a terrible nude scene with Gary Marshall and Daryl Hannah-his dream come true, I'm sure. There was a pointless and stupid scene with three 12-13 yr olds getting wasted. Heck, these two sentences make it sound like something bearable. Let me not trick you: it has about 1 hour of a stupid theme on forgiveness (I thought only God could forgive?). It felt about 3 hours long and we were shocked to see that it was less than 90 minutes.
Lame lame lame. DO NOT WATCH IT! It's not even good for kitsch value. How did it make it through so many hands to actually be released? If you're going to make a Bar Mitzvah movie (are there any other ones?) then make it good! You don't have much competition to dominate the genre (or create it, if it's that good). I want to see Rushmore meets B'nai Mitzvah. Haha!