Pretty Good

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Going in, I wrongly assumed "When Do We Eat? " to be a comedy. Unfoftunately there were zero laughs to be had, similar to "Eulogy", another failed family gathering film. Simply presenting a dysfunctional family of "surprise lesbians", a druggie son, a sex therapist daughter, a fake autistic, a one eyed lover, a Rabbi in training, and a grandfather who carries a suitcase wherever he goes, does not constitute comedy. If you want to see two good dysfunctional family comedies, check out "The Royal Tennenbaums" and "Flirting With Disaster", but skip this one for sure .......................................................... - MERK

'When do we eat?' For years Jews have been asking that same question at the Passover Seder (festive meal), a meal which tends to go on for a very long time, with all its prayers and traditions, the food being just about the last thing on the schedule.In the family comedy 'When do we eat?', Ira Stuckman (Michael Lerner) tries to hurry things up as much as possible, when he gathers his unique dysfunctional family together for what he declares will be 'the fastest Seder', but it turns out to be everything but.From lesbians to druggies to sex surrogates, this family has it all. The oldest son, is an ex-yuppie, who has now become a Baal Teshuva (a secular Jew who 'returns' to observant Judaism), a part played perfectly by Max Greenfield.The script is clever and funny from beginning to end, although some of the sit-commish lines will make you roll your eyes. As the Seder moves along, it seems everyone's got dirty laundry to air, and all sorts of bottled up feelings and revelations start surfacing. While some of it is way over the top, the film remains reasonably believable thanks to the actors, who stay within character and play out their parts well. The film manages to be funny without being too outrageous, and meaningful without being too preachy.Some of the jokes may be too 'inside' for non-Jews to get, and too offensive for Jews to appreciate. As one critic put it 'If this film was not made entirely by Jews, it'd be considered anti-semitic'. Perhaps, but as a Jewish person myself I found it to be stereotypical in the same way that 'My big fat Greek wedding' stereotypes Greeks, but not offensive by any means (atleast not for people who have a sense of humor).Bottom Line: The Movie is fun, entertaining and heartwarming and should not be taken too seriously. Definitely worth a rental.

In my life, i have seen a lot of bad movies, and out of those, about three handfuls of movies i never managed to finish. And "When Do We Eat?" is one of the movies i never was arsed to finish.To be straight out honest, this movie is crap. I watched as much of this movie as I could (which was about two thirds of the movie), and during that dreadful hour, I laughed once. For a movie that is supposed to have "about a joke every minute, and sometimes too many jokes for one to swallow", that's not a really good thing. The jokes aren't really good, makes very little sense, and is about as funny to me as it would be pulling my toe nails out.The plot, which I must say didn't seem so bad, actually turned in to a big pile of junk without sense after a while. The whole "crazy family holiday gone wrong thing" is, fair enough, overused, but the dinner part is new. Unfortunately, it isn't presented in a way which I enjoyed. It's messy, it's crappy, and it's boring. From the moment the dad in this movie found out he was drugged and until I turned it off, i was bored. I thought that was gonna be the funnier part of the movie, but it wasn't. I really can't come close to explain how bored I was. Go watch it yourself if you do not believe me.

When Do We Eat is a laugh-out-loud, brilliant blend of emotions displayed delightfully by the range of characters in a dysfunctional, slightly mixed up family at their Passover festive Sedar. The turn of events at the ending of the film lets us realize that the entire episode was one massive moment of grace. Thank you writers and producers for this totally enjoyable movie. The choice of characters matches so very well the various types found in a modern family searching for its roots, each member going a very separate path, all overlap at this time of the Passover holiday when tradition brings the diverse members of the family to a single table. Every viewer will find in this film moments of truth the hit home, but that do so in a very friendly way.