Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Watching this movie as I type this review, I find it so funny, 4 lovely women, 4 best friends, who do a Book Club and review Fifty Shades of Grey books. I dont know if any of the actresses did read the book, or was told to browse the book, but their faces on certain parts of the book was funny. and seeing the author of fifty shades being in the book was good too. it is nice seeing 4 great actresses and 4 great actors. and some been in movies/tv shows together. i know some reviews here are low, but everyone is different. and i will re-watch this movie.

I watched this film with my wife not expecting it to be for me but I was pleasantly surprised, it was well acted, which I expected from such a strong cast and in parts quiet amusing. While it may have been a bit (well a lot) formulaic and the end could be guessed from very early on it wasn't a bad way to spend an hour and 45 minutes.

It was impossible to watch it for more than 30 minutes, so maybe you should take this review with a grain of salt. After all, there are movies that get better towards the end. But the whole thing starts with one of those upbeat trumpet songs that scream with no inkling of subtlety "now it's time to be amused", four cliched women of over 50 who are in a book club just so that they meet once a week and discuss for about five minutes books that have been done into movies and the rest about their "real problems" like love life and ex husbands. The humor is artificial, the whole Andy Garcia scene in the airplane had be cringing. In the end, even if I have the utmost respect for the actors in the film, I could not continue watching it. It's crassness and cardboard formulaic characters made that impossible for me.

Book ClubWhen hosting a book club for 60-year olds you must remember to get copies of the novel in large print.However, the ladies in this comedy are more interested in gabbing about their sex lives.At their most recent gathering, millionaire Vivian (Jane Fonda), widow Diane (Diane Keaton), divorcee Sharon (Candice Bergen) and housewife Carol (Mary Steenburgen) undertake the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey as their next reading conquest.Over the next 30-days each woman rediscovers her sexuality: Vivian reconnects with an old flame (Don Johnson), Diane meets a pilot (Andy García), Sharon online dates and Carol resuscitates her husband's (Craig T. Nelson) libido. Handcrafted for the aging baby-boomers, this star-studded study of sex over a certain age is relevant and surely relatable. However, the jokes used to convey this significance are not that humorous. Moreover, finding love as a senior nowadays is easier than finding your reading glasses. Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca