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Oct. 3rd, 2023 03:50 pmYou are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
Jews Dance in this Movie.
A lot. Like, the very first shot in the film is of Jews dancing, and the very last shot is Jews dancing, and there's near constant dancing in between. I think there was probably more Jews dancing here than in the filmed version of 13, and that was an actualfax musical!
Adam Sandler phoned this movie in hard, but I was thinking about it and it's possible the phoning in was in a caring way? I mean very clearly this movie was made because his daughters wanted to be in a movie and Sandler could make it happen so he did. And so to the extent that it seems impossible to understand Sandler-character's relationship with his daughter-characters as being honestly connected to Sandler's relationship with his real daughters, that seems to me to be a kindness of preserving some of their privacy. I don't think you can watch this movie and come to any other conclusion than that Adam Sandler loves his daughters very much, in an honest and authentic way.
It's a very joyful movie, as the dancing would suggest, and it does a good job in my opinion of summoning the atmosphere of hormonal confusion of being a teenager. It is not, per se, a good movie, but why should we let that stop us from enjoying it?
Oh, the other thing I wanted to say is that the movie is, for a film in the well-trod genre of Reform Jewish B' Mitzvah movie, surprisingly interested in God? The main character maintains a personal dialogue with God about God's expectations for her throughout the movie, in a way I don't really associate with Reform theology, and Sarah Sherman's wacky Rabbi character sings a song about theodicy called "God is random" that struck me as fascinating.
Jews Dance in this Movie.
A lot. Like, the very first shot in the film is of Jews dancing, and the very last shot is Jews dancing, and there's near constant dancing in between. I think there was probably more Jews dancing here than in the filmed version of 13, and that was an actualfax musical!
Adam Sandler phoned this movie in hard, but I was thinking about it and it's possible the phoning in was in a caring way? I mean very clearly this movie was made because his daughters wanted to be in a movie and Sandler could make it happen so he did. And so to the extent that it seems impossible to understand Sandler-character's relationship with his daughter-characters as being honestly connected to Sandler's relationship with his real daughters, that seems to me to be a kindness of preserving some of their privacy. I don't think you can watch this movie and come to any other conclusion than that Adam Sandler loves his daughters very much, in an honest and authentic way.
It's a very joyful movie, as the dancing would suggest, and it does a good job in my opinion of summoning the atmosphere of hormonal confusion of being a teenager. It is not, per se, a good movie, but why should we let that stop us from enjoying it?
Oh, the other thing I wanted to say is that the movie is, for a film in the well-trod genre of Reform Jewish B' Mitzvah movie, surprisingly interested in God? The main character maintains a personal dialogue with God about God's expectations for her throughout the movie, in a way I don't really associate with Reform theology, and Sarah Sherman's wacky Rabbi character sings a song about theodicy called "God is random" that struck me as fascinating.