“A Week Away” is a Netflix original about a delinquent teenager who after stealing a cop car, (as teens do) might face juvenile detention. Instead of going to juvie however a woman offers to take him in and send him to summer camp. Much to his surprise, it was a Christian youth camp. Then the classic girl meets boy trope begins.

Lead actors Bailee Maddison and Kevin Quinn have amazing voices but they’re very autotuned. Besides the basic lyrics of each song, the plot is cookiecutter for every teen romance movie and the message of being a Christian and letting God into your life is thrown at your face because God forbid the audience to think for themselves.

There’s also a subplot with the secondary characters. They are the best friends of the main characters; these characters are played by Kat Conner Sterling and Jahbril Cook. They have a slow burn romantic relationship that has nothing to do with the plot or the rest of the movie; they’re only there for either comedic relief or to relate to the audience.

The message of being a Chistian or letting God into your life isn’t the issue; the issue is that Chistian propaganda is thinking of having a clean and Godly movie, constitutes a good film. Making a film is more complicated than getting cameras, writing a simple script, and talking about God. There used to be a time when Christian music and entertainment had a meaning and wasn’t just spewing out words to describe Jesus and how great he is. Art forms to represent Christianity have become shallow and this movie is a perfect depiction of that.

A Week Away is a great film if you have a bad taste in movies with unnecessary musical numbers and you happen to like basic plots that don’t make sense.