‘Yes Day’ will give everyone above the age of 12 anxiety
When you see a Netflix movie, you immediately have a set of expectations: not cinematic genius, but a nice movie. Although “Yes Day” is supposed to be a comedy, we ended up with strong feelings of worry and anxiety throughout the majority of the film. Perhaps that just shows that we are old farts with no sense of humor.
The basic idea is simple: Allison Torres (Jennifer Garner) is depicted as a fairly strict parent, so much so that her 10-year-old son, Nando (Julian Lerner), compared her to Stalin and Moussolini. Carlos (Édgar Ramírez) is the chill parent, the one who always defers to mom to say no, making him the kids’ favorite parent. The underlying conflict in the movie is that their oldest daughter, Katie (Jenna Ortega), wants to go to “Fleek Fest,” a Coachella-esque concert with her friends. After being told that she is too controlling at parent-teacher conferences, Allison decides that they will try ha
Jennifer Garner and Edgar Ramirez play beleaguered parents in Miguel Arteta s Netflix family pic.
Eating ice cream is fun. Riding roller coasters is lots of fun. Watching other people do those things in a movie can be fun, or at least pleasant, under the right circumstances. Those circumstances do not arise in Miguel Arteta s insipid family pic
Yes Day, about two lame-o parents (Jennifer Garner and Edgar Ramirez) who decide to re-win their kids love by letting them do absolutely anything they want to do for one special day. It s not impossible that there are Netflix households, a year into the pandemic, in which this flat-footed adaptation of Amy Krouse Rosenthal s kids book will pass for a good time. Those families probably need a shakeup even more than the one in the film.