You are SO not invited to my bat mitzvah - movie on netflix

[Anonymous]

I did not know those were Sandler's daughters til I saw this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was this movie written as a vehicle for the entire Sandler family? Kinda weird.

Sandler can do whatever he wants. Brilliant move to launch his daughters’ careers.

He looks out for friends and family. They all turned out for him for the Kennedy Center Honors. He is the real deal as a good guy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was this movie written as a vehicle for the entire Sandler family? Kinda weird.

Sandler can do whatever he wants. Brilliant move to launch his daughters’ careers.

He looks out for friends and family. They all turned out for him for the Kennedy Center Honors. He is the real deal as a good guy.

Sandler has a massive exclusive deal with Netflix. $250M bucks to produce a bunch of movies where Netflix funds production/distribution and he retains creative control.

This new film with his daughters is ranked the highest on Rotten Tomatoes relative to his other films for Netflix, inc. Uncut Gems. He gets eyeballs on the platform and supposedly Netflix is very happy with the return on investment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG, loved it. Am not Jewish but love a good coming of age movie. I listened to a podcast and the movie is set in NJ and the kids are attending a Jewish day school (not a Hebrew school). I had picked up on the NJ part but my husband thought they were in LA so thought I would clarify since there was some confusion over here.

In opening scenes, the cars have the recognizable NJ yellow license plates. My spouse missed that was assuming it took place in LA until I correctly her.

I didn't realize they were in a private JDS until they started the actual B'nai mitzvah class with Sarah Sherman and all the same kids were in it. I had assumed they were at a secular public school during the first 15-20 minutes.

There's lots of hidden "afikomen" in the film for you to find!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I watched this on a whim and loved it! I thought all the actors were really good, including the Sandler sisters. However, I thought real standout was the actress who played Lydia. Not only is she beautiful, she’s a super actress.

Wardrobe for Lydia was on point! Picked up one of the headbands from this article:
https://www.femestella.com/you-are-so-not-invited-to-my-bat-mitzvah-where-to-get-lydia-rodriguez-katzs-outfits/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband is Jewish and he rolled his eyes at the tremendous diversity in the Hebrew school scenes. While we understand and support representation in movies, it wasn’t realistic and to a certain extent co-opts what is a singular Jewish experience. (I’m Catholic so I don’t have a dog in this fight.)

He also pointed out that Jewish mothers spend a year+ planning the event (while the movie made it seem like they are thrown together, including shopping for the dress at the last minute).

I would have loved to see Sara Silverman or Seinfeld or another Jewish comedian make a cameo. Missed opportunity.

This was my one critique of this movie. Trying to make the Hebrew School look like a mini UN really undermined the credibility of the movie. Maybe one character, like Kym Chang Cohen, would have been fine. But it felt too forced to have so many religious Jews with at least one parent of a different faith.

Ok, one more critique: The bat/bar mitzvah girl/boy would wear one conservative outfit to temple on Friday night, another conservative outfit to temple on Saturday morning, then their party outfit on Saturday night. Not one conservative, navy dress the whole time.

That said, the movie was great! Adam's daughters did a fabulous job. The younger one who played Stacy really did an amazing job. She's a very talented actress. The teen friendship drama with two of the girls becoming more popular and leaving behind their less cool friends was very realistic. It was great to see them all together again at the end.

I loved the redhead who bragged to KCC that she got her whole outfit plus a water bottle from Walmart for $12. Stacy and Lydia knew that wasn't "cool" but the less mature Nikki and Tara didn't catch it. Perfectly delivered scene!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG, loved it. Am not Jewish but love a good coming of age movie. I listened to a podcast and the movie is set in NJ and the kids are attending a Jewish day school (not a Hebrew school). I had picked up on the NJ part but my husband thought they were in LA so thought I would clarify since there was some confusion over here.

In opening scenes, the cars have the recognizable NJ yellow license plates. My spouse missed that was assuming it took place in LA until I correctly her.

I didn't realize they were in a private JDS until they started the actual B'nai mitzvah class with Sarah Sherman and all the same kids were in it. I had assumed they were at a secular public school during the first 15-20 minutes.

There's lots of hidden "afikomen" in the film for you to find!

DP. I thought they attended a regular public school but were attending Hebrew school on the weekend?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG, loved it. Am not Jewish but love a good coming of age movie. I listened to a podcast and the movie is set in NJ and the kids are attending a Jewish day school (not a Hebrew school). I had picked up on the NJ part but my husband thought they were in LA so thought I would clarify since there was some confusion over here.

In opening scenes, the cars have the recognizable NJ yellow license plates. My spouse missed that was assuming it took place in LA until I correctly her.

I didn't realize they were in a private JDS until they started the actual B'nai mitzvah class with Sarah Sherman and all the same kids were in it. I had assumed they were at a secular public school during the first 15-20 minutes.

There's lots of hidden "afikomen" in the film for you to find!

DP. I thought they attended a regular public school but were attending Hebrew school on the weekend?

Me, too. I loved the movie, but was a little confused about the school situation.

[Anonymous]

Seems like you'd have to try pretty hard to not know anyone Jewish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband is Jewish and he rolled his eyes at the tremendous diversity in the Hebrew school scenes. While we understand and support representation in movies, it wasn’t realistic and to a certain extent co-opts what is a singular Jewish experience. (I’m Catholic so I don’t have a dog in this fight.)

He also pointed out that Jewish mothers spend a year+ planning the event (while the movie made it seem like they are thrown together, including shopping for the dress at the last minute).

I would have loved to see Sara Silverman or Seinfeld or another Jewish comedian make a cameo. Missed opportunity.

This was my one critique of this movie. Trying to make the Hebrew School look like a mini UN really undermined the credibility of the movie. Maybe one character, like Kym Chang Cohen, would have been fine. But it felt too forced to have so many religious Jews with at least one parent of a different faith.

Ok, one more critique: The bat/bar mitzvah girl/boy would wear one conservative outfit to temple on Friday night, another conservative outfit to temple on Saturday morning, then their party outfit on Saturday night. Not one conservative, navy dress the whole time.

That said, the movie was great! Adam's daughters did a fabulous job. The younger one who played Stacy really did an amazing job. She's a very talented actress. The teen friendship drama with two of the girls becoming more popular and leaving behind their less cool friends was very realistic. It was great to see them all together again at the end.

I loved the redhead who bragged to KCC that she got her whole outfit plus a water bottle from Walmart for $12. Stacy and Lydia knew that wasn't "cool" but the less mature Nikki and Tara didn't catch it. Perfectly delivered scene!

I feel like for some reason movies like this elicit this extreme, undeserved evaluation. It's not some gritty doc. Yeah you wouldn't be buying your bat mitzvah dress the week before and choose one your daughter didn't feel good in. It was a vehicle to move the story along. You got to suspend some disbelief.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was this movie written as a vehicle for the entire Sandler family? Kinda weird.

Sandler can do whatever he wants. Brilliant move to launch his daughters’ careers.

He looks out for friends and family. They all turned out for him for the Kennedy Center Honors. He is the real deal as a good guy.

Sandler has a massive exclusive deal with Netflix. $250M bucks to produce a bunch of movies where Netflix funds production/distribution and he retains creative control.

This new film with his daughters is ranked the highest on Rotten Tomatoes relative to his other films for Netflix, inc. Unc7ut Gems. He gets eyeballs on the platform and supposedly Netflix is very happy with the return on investment.

Uncut Gems was great but so was Hustle. He has had some real stinkers (that herbie Halloween thing???) but he's been on a roll lately. I thought his newest one was quite funny and just the right amount of sweet.

[Anonymous]

I found this boring and didn’t finish the 1st episode
Something like pretend reality show about Uber wealthy family that lives in a bubble and have no clue
I just couldn’t relate to anything

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have never attended a Bat Mitzvah nor do I know anyone Jewish (I live in the midwest). What are they like? what do ppl do?

There are Jewish people in the Midwest. My cousin married a jewish guy from Ohio. She transplanted him to NY of course. So now there are 25% fewer Jewish people there.

I went to over a dozen, grew up in Ohio. And my school was small (they were all school friends).

+1. Strange comment- there are lots of Jews from the Midwest, which is a huge region of the US. I’m married to one, actually. The main Reform Judaism seminary is in Cincinnati.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I found this boring and didn’t finish the 1st episode
Something like pretend reality show about Uber wealthy family that lives in a bubble and have no clue
I just couldn’t relate to anything

There is no first episode. It's a movie. Maybe you're thinking of something else?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband is Jewish and he rolled his eyes at the tremendous diversity in the Hebrew school scenes. While we understand and support representation in movies, it wasn’t realistic and to a certain extent co-opts what is a singular Jewish experience. (I’m Catholic so I don’t have a dog in this fight.)

He also pointed out that Jewish mothers spend a year+ planning the event (while the movie made it seem like they are thrown together, including shopping for the dress at the last minute).

I would have loved to see Sara Silverman or Seinfeld or another Jewish comedian make a cameo. Missed opportunity.

This was my one critique of this movie. Trying to make the Hebrew School look like a mini UN really undermined the credibility of the movie. Maybe one character, like Kym Chang Cohen, would have been fine. But it felt too forced to have so many religious Jews with at least one parent of a different faith.

Ok, one more critique: The bat/bar mitzvah girl/boy would wear one conservative outfit to temple on Friday night, another conservative outfit to temple on Saturday morning, then their party outfit on Saturday night. Not one conservative, navy dress the whole time.

That said, the movie was great! Adam's daughters did a fabulous job. The younger one who played Stacy really did an amazing job. She's a very talented actress. The teen friendship drama with two of the girls becoming more popular and leaving behind their less cool friends was very realistic. It was great to see them all together again at the end.

I loved the redhead who bragged to KCC that she got her whole outfit plus a water bottle from Walmart for $12. Stacy and Lydia knew that wasn't "cool" but the less mature Nikki and Tara didn't catch it. Perfectly delivered scene!

I feel like for some reason movies like this elicit this extreme, undeserved evaluation. It's not some gritty doc. Yeah you wouldn't be buying your bat mitzvah dress the week before and choose one your daughter didn't feel good in. It was a vehicle to move the story along. You got to suspend some disbelief.

It's a valid criticism.