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You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (2023)
A passable disaster.
I watched this movie because I knew Adam Sandler would be in it but I was disappointed that he had such a marginal role.
The movie was almost entirely about Sandler's real younger daughter (Sunny) & I have to say she does not do badly at acting but you have to remember who her parents are.
I watched it all but as a teenager I must say it was very cringeworthy.
As few people know the bar mitzwah is the coming of age for girls at 12 years (& a day) and for boys a year later, so the main character was supposed to be 12 but she looked 15/16 & that showed alongside the other kids.
I dwell slightly on the fact that these Jewish traditions are so wrong (like brit milà) & that at that age you are nowhere near adulthood & that they only put pressure on young people.
However, the movie is meant to parody today's pre-teens (obsessed with cell phones, social media, their own image & their inability to form sincere & lasting friendships with their peers).
I really didn't like the part where they sexualized Stacy (let's remember that she would ONLY be 12 years old) with daring photos that she allegedly "mistakenly sent" to the snooty boy she had a crush on & as a rebound from her former bf.
Kids too young to kiss on the lips & especially the scene of the main character kissing in the holy temple made me think, "what am I looking at?!"
A father who is upset only about the fact that she had kissed him (I repeat, on the lips) in a sacred temple than about the kiss itself.
The eldest daughter (I believe 2 years older) who is not calculated at all in the family & is left to do what she wants with her friend 24 hours a day.
Teachers who instead of helping do the opposite and who makes one think that it will end horribly in reality the two little girls make up & Stacy gives a cute speech to her classmates in which the adults are also present.
I have to admit that it was strange to see Adam Sandler see in a 100 percent permissive parent role with his daughters as opposed to his previous films (e.g., the one where Bella Thorne was also in it) & let them wear (& do) whatever they wanted.
100 Things to Do Before High School (2014)
Cancelled too soon.
I was really sad that they recorded 25 episodes & then... all over.
If Nickelodeon had made "100 things to do before collage/university" with the same cast they would most likely have recorded 4 seasons.
It is true that they had recycled something from Ned's survival guide show but y'all have to understand that ideas run out at some point.
100 things to do before high school, despite also being a long title, I am more than sure that it would have really had potential if they had carried on with the project.
Also it was made exactly 10 years after Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, a lot happens in 10 years so they wouldn't have had any big script problems.
Although they cancelled it after only one season this didn't stop Isabela Moner/Merced from breaking through as an actress & then singer (thanks in part to Splitting Adam & the brief relationship she had with the movie's lead) in Hollywood.
Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn (2014)
A fun show that also knows how to amaze.
I have to admit that those 3 names in a row confused me a lot, I had to watch quite a few episodes before I realized that all 3 of them didn't have the same name, lol.
They should have called them N, R and D sooner, or still at least used the boys' real names (Nicholas, Richard & Derrick).
I wasn't thrilled that it was a sports store (in my opinion also badly decorated) that was the location of most of the episodes.
However, the series is very cute, flows well, the jokes are funny, & the cast is good, I really enjoyed the performance of the boys' father (Tom/Thomas Harper, played by Brian Stepanek)
The episodes of the fourth (final season) were much less than the other seasons, & I did not like this because I would have liked to observe more closely the growth of the guys, especially Dawn who is the character for whom I had great empathy & sympathy, especially since she has to put up with those three males every day 😅.
One of the Nickelodeon programs for kids/teens/youth that I would recommend.