Pleasant little comedy with some good performances.
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01/18/07
Keeping Up With The Steins (2006)
35 %
Reviews Counted: 79 Fresh: 28 Rotten:51 Average Rating: 4.9/10
Consensus:
Keeping Up With the Steins is one of those comedies that play more like a corny sitcom than a theatrical movie.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Synopsis: While intending to bridge the gap between boyhood and manhood, bar mitzvahs can often more closely resemble extravagant sweet-sixteen parties than actual religious ceremonies. It is this trend that forms the basis of KEEPING UP WITH THE STEINS, a family comedy about what happens when a... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Jeremy Piven, Jami Gertz, Daryl Hannah, Cheryl Hines, Garry Marshall
Director: Scott Marshall
Screenwriter: Mark Zakarin
Producer: David Scharf, A.D. Oppenheim
Composer: John Debney
Screenwriter: Mark Zakarin
Producer: David Scharf, A.D. Oppenheim
Composer: John Debney
Reviews
Will it all turn out? What do you think? Part of the fun is in watching how, although one's enjoyment of the movie will depend on many factors. Comedy, of course, is a very subjective medium; what some find hilarious, others won't. At the screening I atte
01/11/07
... the comedy is too timid to really make much of a satirical statement.
12/30/06
a stiff would-be comedy filled with talented stars and very few laughs.
11/15/06
Entertaining on all three levels: as Jewish comedy, as Jewish satire and as universal comedy
11/10/06
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11/03/06
A long slog of family cliché and idiotic coming-of-age yuks thrown at us with the subtlety of a naked Garry Marshall.
10/31/06
Although there is nothing offensive about the film, there is nothing particularly amusing or enlightening about it, either.
10/25/06
Aside from the first 15 minutes and the last five or so, the film just isn't very funny.
07/06/06
Keeping Up With the Steins isn't a bad film -- it just devolves into the limp sort of schmaltzy conclusion you keep hoping it will avoid.
06/24/06
...you don't have to be Jewish to have fun with Keeping Up With the Steins, but it couldn't hurt.
06/19/06
A toothless commentary on suburban jealousy, with familial strain mixed in at random.
06/17/06
Squanders a premise that's filled with comic gold by playing it too safe.
06/16/06
a sometimes charming, completely predictable comedy that might be the pilot episode for a TV series you will forget to watch every week.
06/16/06
Hollywood nepotism is served up with the gefilte fish in a stunningly unfunny bar mitzvah comedy.
06/15/06
The life lessons tossed around like seeds aren't especially original, earthshaking or inspiring.
06/14/06
Think of this benign, not-so-kosher cultural comedy as "My Big Fat Jewish Bar Mitzvah."
06/10/06
It's not meant to be uproarious. But even as comfort food, Steins can't keep up.
06/09/06
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