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"Hey cool," thought I as I uncracked the wrapper on this When Do We Eat? DVD. "As a person with the last name of "Weinberg," surely Ill be able to appreciate the humor in a Jew-centric comedy thats got a few familiar faces and some very old schtick!" So in went the DVD and down went the lights.

Yikes.

Desperately shooting for that "My Big Fat Greek Wedding of the Jewish set" title, When Do We Eat? is a sluggish, arid, and entirely schizophrenic affair. Whether or not you "get" the Jewish humor, youll be hard pressed to diagree when I assert that the humor found here is very basic, very broad, and (often) pretty darn bad.

Co-writers Nina Davidovich and Salvador Litvak dont even bother with "plot," but at least we get a premise: Its Seder time at the Stuckman household -- and get this: All of the family members are self-centered and perpetually-bickering...Read the entire review



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