Premise: Stacy Friedman and Lydia Rodriguez Katz are best friends who have always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs, but things start to go comically awry when a popular boy named Andy Goldfarb and middle school drama threaten their friendship and their rite of passage.

Review: I liked the trailer up until I saw the names of the actresses and then I felt weird. This is basically a nepo movie but I command Adam Sandler for it. It seems like the right project was chosen for his girls instead of cramming them into any project. If you’re given your kids a leg up you might as well do it well.

As for the movie, it’s a pretty solid coming-of-age movie that is well-acted, they’ve assembled a good crop of young actors, who could carry this movie. However, the script itself might be my biggest problem with this movie. The rom-com movie structure for this friendship movie didn’t quite work considering how annoying, bratty, and selfish Stacy was been throughout the film. I was just cringing for a good chunk of it because of her behavior. I’m not saying that it’s not somewhat – or very – accurate of how some pre-teen girls act and react. But it’s as if being a mean girl 95% of the time should be forgiven because for the last 5% she grew a conscience? That was a bit too easy and jarring to see. Plus, the bulk of her redemption were during the credits.

They definitely didn’t have me in mind when they made this movie but if you see a teen girl treat her best friend poorly for time! to then realize said friend is human too, go ahead.

It’s now streaming on Netflix

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