By Scott T. Sterling
The art of the bar mitzvah video has been elevated to a whole new and entirely hilarious level, thanks to Brody Criz and his family.
In a clip entitled “Mitzvah Fantasy” that’s been uploaded to YouTube, Criz’s video invite finds the young man and a cast of family and friends running through elaborate parodies of hit songs by Pharrell Williams, John Legend, Lorde, Robin Thicke and more.
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The songs have been rewritten to reflect their religious heritage, including the chorus to Pharrell’s “Happy” being changed from “because I’m happy” to “because I’m Jewish/Clap along if you feel like the Old Testament is the truth,” complete with cheery displays of public dancing.
The mood switches to dramatic black-and-white footage for Criz’s version of John Legend’s “All of Me.” Criz then dons a curly black wig for his take on Lorde’s “Royals,” updated as “Spoiled.”
