Week of

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*photo from entertainment weekly*
      Back in the day I veered into reviewing Netflix films, ironically with another Adam Sandler beauty   "Ridiculous Six". I am going to bring the Netflix back with a new winner "Week of".
    This movie reunites Sandler with Chris Rock. Sandler plays the father of the bride and that makes Rock the father of the groom.  Sandler plays Kenny Lustig, a guy that owns his own construction company, and is able to support his family. Lustig wants to follow what is tradition and pay for the wedding.  Of course with films like this, hijinks, occur that could stop the wedding. It doesn't help that the groom' s father Kirby Cordice (Rock) is a very successful  surgeon. So the question is does the wedding happen?
       The thing that bothered me the most about this was the jokes. To start out, the jokes that weren't inherently offensive, were not funny. The offensive jokes included all black people look alike and making serious light of having cancer. Jokes are very necessary for a film like this to work. If they do not it is hard for the movie to work.
      One of the other things that kind of bothered me was the choice of what takes to use for the scenes in the movie. Example being, a certain scene in the movie where Sandler is supposed to be yelling at someone, but you can clearly see him about ready to laugh.
     If I had to say one thing that worked for me was the relationship between Lustig and his daughter. It is real when it comes to the children growing up and the way the parents have to let go.
     This is a movie that means well, but with just the father, daughter relationship working,  it needed more.
  GRADE : D+ 

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