A Week Away [A Musical] (2021) Movie Review

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 Starring Kevin Quinn and Bailee Madison, A Week Away, A Musical is a Netflix movie. A lot of a there. Anyways, A Week Away features some really decent tunes yes, but starting off, let's point out that it is a pro-christian propaganda movie at some level as well, so keep that in mind when you read our review on it. Welcome back mortals, feel lost on Netflix and wondering if this is the one for you? Perfect, we have just the review for you today.

A Week Away, in a nutshell, follows Will (That's Kevin Quinn) on his mighty adventures leading him to Jesus. The musical starts off with Will stealing a cop car for some reason, some good reason we never got to know. (Or that I forgot, it's not really a movie to remember, you see) Anyways, when the cop catches him with the car he stole, I think, he gets caught and is kicked out of the group house thing. So, he meets with his counselor, he finds one last chance at a summer camp, which he of course takes, since you know, jail's not that fun. Anyways, that summer camp turns out to be a church's summer camp, a place to find Jesus and love. The woman who gave Will this chance is a parent of one of the kids there, who will later pose as Will's cousin. Oh, the pastor himself runs the camp btw, and he's a bit of a Braveheart fun, which is... not really important to mention I just realised. Whatever. So,  in the summer camp, Will meets Avery (That's Bailee Madison) Avery shows him the sacred way, bully tells everyone Will's cop car fantasies, Will and Avery become emotional, Will and Avery become lovers, Will finds a new family, the bully apologizes, Will hugs him, everyone dances, the end. Spoilers much? Oh come on, you were gonna watch it just for the music and the cheesy romance scenes anyway, you knew that was the story even before I wrote this review, I saved you from the trouble of actually watching all of it. Okay, enough with the story, let's get critical.

The musical is, as I said pro-religious, and as expected, no kissing in moonlight, but that's okay. Isn't it, dear reader? The bad thing about the movie is actually the musical part. It begins arround the first minute and ends arround... no. I'm not really the musical hater type, really, but this thing, it is too much. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it! The songs make no sense considering the storyline, and the dancing.. oh my god! Please, for god's sake, stop it! The musical is full of meaningless dancing with absurd choreography over and over and it makes you hate yourself every second. That was one of the worst musical experiences I've yet to get. The romance is planned to be cheesy, that's okay, but it's not even that. It's a void, empty. Characters are rolling through a river. They're not swimming to their destination, instead just rolling through, passing by. Then, suddenly, everything's ruined, and in a 2 minutes time, everything's back to normal, even perfect. Story is meaningless, romance is irritating, character development not even close to optimal, just doesn't exists, and oh boy do I hate the music. Considering it's a romantic teen musical and it's not a good example of any of the words in it's genre, I think I can say it's a bad movie as a whole.

A Week Away is a musical. I watched it. It's meaningless. It's absurd. It's just religious propaganda. I hated it. You don't need to watch it. You really don't. Still, if you want to, it's streaming on Netflix.

Cinemortals Rating : 2/10

Reviewed By : Batuhan