{"id":211760,"date":"2021-03-26T19:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-week-away-review-dated-derivative-faith-based-musical-for-tweens\/"},"modified":"2021-03-26T19:00:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T16:00:55","slug":"watch-a-week-away-review-dated-derivative-faith-based-musical-for-tweens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-week-away-review-dated-derivative-faith-based-musical-for-tweens\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;A Week Away&#8217; Review: Dated, Derivative Faith-Based Musical for Tweens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4114d84bf81\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4114d84bf81\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-week-away-review-dated-derivative-faith-based-musical-for-tweens\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98A_Week_Away_Review_Dated_Derivative_Faith-Based_Musical_for_Tweens%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;A Week Away&#8217; Review: Dated, Derivative Faith-Based Musical for Tweens&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-week-away-review-dated-derivative-faith-based-musical-for-tweens\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98A_Week_Away_Review_Dated_Derivative_Faith-Based_Musical_for_Tweens%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;A Week Away&#8217; Review: Dated, Derivative Faith-Based Musical for Tweens&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98A_Week_Away_Review_Dated_Derivative_Faith-Based_Musical_for_Tweens%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;A Week Away&#8217; Review: Dated, Derivative Faith-Based Musical for Tweens&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98A_Week_Away_Review_Dated_Derivative_Faith-Based_Musical_for_Tweens%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;A Week Away&#8217; Review: Dated, Derivative Faith-Based Musical for Tweens&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Say you\u2019re a wild, wayward but ultimately gold-hearted teen who gets busted for attempting to steal a cop car, and your weary, exasperated but ultimately on-your-side counselor offers you a choice of correctional penalty: an extended spell in juvenile hall, or one summer of singing, swimming and mild soul-searching at a Christian youth camp. Which do you choose? If it seems a no-brainer, the achievement of \u201cA Week Away\u201d is to make us collectively wonder, after 90 minutes of aggressively wholesome hijinks, if juvie would be so bad after all. A purposeful, programmatic attempt by Netflix to encroach on both the faith-based market and the Disney Plus demo, this innocuous but character-free tuner shamelessly copies and crosses the formulae of \u201cHigh School Musical\u201d and \u201cCamp Rock\u201d down to the last, sequel-prompting detail.<\/p>\n<p>What director Roman White\u2019s film neglects to do is update those Noughties tween touchstones in any way, from its oddly era-neutral adolescent stereotypes to its anonymously perky song score, which owes far more to the chipper pop of early Demi Lovato and One Direction than anything currently blowing up on TikTok. (It\u2019s up for debate whether these old-before-their-time kids even know what that is, though the film\u2019s threadbare premise at least cannily plunges them into a phone-free zone.) White made his name as a director of music videos for the likes of Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood in the first phase of their careers, and brings that kind of bright, squeaky-clean showmanship to his debut feature \u2014 even if the songs aren\u2019t as sticky, nor the choreography as nimble, as anything the \u201cHigh School Musical\u201d franchise had to offer.<\/p>\n<p>If the Christian angle of \u201cA Week Away\u201d distinguishes it faintly from its chief influences, it isn\u2019t pushed overly hard. God rates a namecheck only here and there in the vaguely inspirational, fully unmemorable lyrics, while the film\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> line of messaging \u2014 be true to yourself, make your voice heard, find your place in this world, and so on \u2014 can be found in any number of more secular but equally insipid teen romances.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>, by first-time feature writers Alan Powell and Kali Bailey, offers us a mostly agnostic protagonist in the dreamboat shape of Will (Kevin Quinn), the kind of movie delinquent whom most parents would nonetheless be happy enough for their daughters to bring home: Sure, he\u2019s done some stuff, but his soul is pure, his hair is glorious, and he carries a trusty acoustic guitar wherever he goes. That Quinn, a perfectly amiable presence, seems primarily to have been cast for his close physical and vocal resemblance to the younger Zac Efron underlines the film\u2019s off-brand Disney approach from the get-go: From his introduction onward, most of the expected types and tropes fall neatly into place.<\/p>\n<p>After his abovementioned scrape with the law, orphaned Will unsurprisingly chooses the camp option, packed off to a woodsy Nashville retreat under the watchful eye of kindly mama bear Kristin (Sherri Shepherd) and her sweetly dorky son George (Jahbril Cook). Before the first bouncy musical number is even over, he\u2019s fallen head over heels for Avery (Bailee Madison), the devout good-girl daughter of the camp leader (David Koechner), and made a tepid enemy of rival alpha male Sean (Iain Tucker). Thus are the faint lines of conflict drawn for a narrative that, even by the fuzzy standards of the genre, is notably low-stakes: Will Will\u2019s troubled past be uncovered, and when (sorry, if) it is, will his kindly new friends and love interest turn away from him?<\/p>\n<p>If anything, the film\u2019s cross-pollination with faith-based cinema is detrimental to its already minimal tension. Forgiveness and redemption are pretty much a given here, as the moral arc of \u201cA Week Away\u201d (the title refers to the camp\u2019s principle of everyone being one week away from a life-changing experience) feels pre-written twice over, in the Bible and sundry screenwriting manuals alike.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, White and his writers make an occasional winking joke of the enterprise\u2019s shorthand predictability. \u201cThat was a really quick montage,\u201d George quips after Will gives him a \u201cJohn Hughes makeover\u201d that takes all of three seconds \u2014 and culminates in a brief fantasy sequence in which the kid croons an R&amp;B-lite cover of Amy Grant\u2019s \u201cBaby Baby\u201d to the crush he can barely speak to in real life. It says everything about \u201cA Week Away\u201d that this is what passes for hip in its clean, antiseptic story world \u2014 and is also the biggest bop here by a country mile.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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