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Film Review

The Week Of is a comedy film that revolves around a father called Kenny setting up his daughter Sarah and her to-be husband Tyler’s wedding, it is a hilarious movie that turns out to be a heart-felt warming story of a father showing how much he loves his daughter and shows how he struggles to make the most out of everything alongside with cheesy jokes used as comic relief to release several laughs that surprise the audience.

 

The Week Of conforms the expectations of a comedy film as it includes scenes that you expect of a comedy film such as comic relief in tense moments and even during the most chaotic moments during the film it still contains comedy to a certain extent, at the start it does set off quite weak as it sets off pretty quickly and you don’t get much of an idea of what’s going on, but it does its job which is to make you laugh, many scenes in this film are quite hilarious however certain scenes revolve around the fear of disappointment as Adam Sandler who plays Kenny Lustig tried to make the best wedding for his daughter regardless of his financial problems. It also turns out to be a sweet heart-warming story towards the end as Kenny confesses his fear of losing his daughter as she embarks onto marriage which will set them far apart.

 

However on the other hand, the scenes are quite generic, generating pretty normal jokes, which do however crack a couple of laughs. The story does conform the genre of comedy including typical scenes where the characters are setting up something up, in this film’s case it’d be Kenny’s daughter’s wedding, and along setting the wedding up things tend to go wrong where Kenny has to fix them with a couple jokes being cracked along too until it all clashes miserably into one chaotic result where everything goes completely wrong, in this case the wedding goes on fire and everyone has to evacuate, this is where the film starts to sail more onto the heart-warming story type and of course one happy ending.

 

One downside of the film however is that there isn’t enough character development, because of the very quick start we don’t get to know much about all the other characters aside from the fact that they’re just for joke build-up and comic relief, as a result of this we only get to know Kenny as he tries to set everything up and taking care of everything by himself. Camera usage is quite normal, nothing out of the ordinary as it doesn’t really include any first person point of views since it’s more of a group-type of comedy which means it requires more than one character to add onto a joke. It also has a few stereotypical jokes where Kenny invited two strange African American men assuming they’re Tyler’s family, which then they reveal that they don’t know each other at all and regardless of that they still are invited to have breakfast because why not, it’s funny.

 

One key scene is the scene where Kenny confesses to his daughter his fear of losing her, I think that scene is quite heart-warming and adds a different type of feel since it’s more serious rather than all the other scenes where over-exaggerated humour is displayed throughout most of the film. It adds a feel of family-love since throughout the whole of the movie you can see just how stressed Kenny is and just how much he wants to organize the wedding of whom he even showed stubbornness in the film as he rejects multiple offers by Kirby of letting him pay for the ceremony. Kirby is Tyler’s father who is a surgeon that works in LA with a seemingly good life with lots of money and women, as a result of this it is shown towards the later scenes that Kirby wasn’t able to spend much time with his family due to his job which explains his not so close relationship with all of his family. It also shows just how much Kenny was genuinely struggling and how he was stressed out by his inability to afford everything while hiding everything through a smile.

 

Overall the movie is a comedic build up to a sentimental, heart-felt and somewhat dramatic reveal.

 

The feedback from the critics isn’t the worst nor is it the best, one prime example of this is: “The best that can be said about The Week Of is that it at least tacks some heart onto an otherwise stale, mothball-scented set-up.” – Chris Nashawaty from Entertainment Weekly.

 

Lastly the feedback from the audience isn’t great nor is it good ,most critics tended to have be neutral towards it but the audience was more of mix, some leaving very positive reviews, others leaving negative reviews: “A prime example of what happens when you try too hard to look "deep".” - random person from Audience reviews in rottentomatoes.com.