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Keeping Up With The Steins (2006)

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Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 82
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 52

Keeping Up With the Steins is one of those comedies that play more like a corny sitcom than a theatrical movie.

56

Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 12

Keeping Up With the Steins is one of those comedies that play more like a corny sitcom than a theatrical movie.

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Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 89,426

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Movie Info

The competition heats up as a young man on the cusp of adulthood in Brentwood, CA, prepares for his upcoming bar mitzvah, and his father strives to outdo the gargantuan coming-of-age bash recently thrown by his number-one nemesis, in a madcap tale of Hebrew rivalry from actor-turned-director Scott Marshall. Benjamin Fiedler (Daryl Sabara) is about to become a man, though the prospect of reciting a language he doesn't even really know in front of a temple full of strangers is so daunting that it

PG-13, 1 hr. 30 min.

Comedy

Mark Zakarin

Oct 31, 2006

$4.3M

Miramax Films

Cast

All Critics (86) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (54) | DVD (13)

It's not meant to be uproarious. But even as comfort food, Steins can't keep up.

June 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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By the time the Fiedlers are getting serious about their arguments and their hugs, we've grown to like them.

June 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comment
Denver Post
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A winningly sincere and warmly humorous film about an ancient Jewish milestone in the time of Martha Stewart.

June 2, 2006 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | Comment
Houston Chronicle
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It's not the kind of comedy that makes you laugh till your face hurts, but it'll give your smile muscles a good workout.

June 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | Comment
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Had Scott Marshall and screenwriter Mark Zakarin honed their knives sharper, they could have made genuine mirth out of this.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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The tribute to an aging parent is moving and gives this routine comedy an extra something.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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So-so comedy about over-the-top bar mitzvah.

July 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Pleasant little comedy with some good performances.

January 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | Comment
Laramie Movie Scope

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

January 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Murphy's Movie Reviews | Comment
Murphy's Movie Reviews

One of the most disappointing films I've seen this year. Unfortunately the DVD doesn't do much to change that fact.

January 5, 2007 Full Review Source: Calgary Movies | Comment
Calgary Movies

... the comedy is too timid to really make much of a satirical statement.

December 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | Comment
Los Angeles Daily News

a stiff would-be comedy filled with talented stars and very few laughs.

November 15, 2006 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

Entertaining on all three levels: as Jewish comedy, as Jewish satire and as universal comedy

November 10, 2006 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

...benefits greatly from the mere presence of Jeremy Piven...

November 8, 2006 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

A long slog of family cliché and idiotic coming-of-age yuks thrown at us with the subtlety of a naked Garry Marshall.

October 31, 2006 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

...it's awfully hard to care about any of the characters because they are all such innocuous caricatures.

October 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Although there is nothing offensive about the film, there is nothing particularly amusing or enlightening about it, either.

October 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

Aside from the first 15 minutes and the last five or so, the film just isn't very funny.

July 6, 2006 Full Review | Comment
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

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.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Keeping Up With The Steins

Keeping Up with the Steins is about trip to his bar mitzvah party with his dysfunctional family in one house.Good plot and good acting most of the timeIts kind of a cult, spoof and comedy mix into to one. This film is making fun of how too many Jewish families see a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah not as a coming of age

July 14, 2011
erika250
erika bruhns

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much better then expected

April 3, 2007
jjnxn
jay nixon

Super Reviewer

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