It's good these women are still working, but it's sad this is what they're working on. Terrible cliched schlock, and maybe I wasn't paying attention, but I feel I missed several important plot points. The fact Don Johnson was her old flame, the fact Ed Begley Jr was her ex husband, why Diane Keaton had her own house, but lived with her children, and why Diane Keaton always plays Diane Keaton?
You want to talk about cast stuffing. Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen in the lead roles with Andy Garcia, Craig T. Nelson, Don Johnson and Richard Dreyfuss as the men that love them...and more including some cameos so clueless and inconceivable you won't even believe it. But this is not a rom-com. It's like four of them, all with some weak sauce, and shoved together hoping you like one of the four. But since the writers can't commit to an idea, you don't commit either. This movie must have been shelved a while since the plot device of reading "Shades of Grey" already seems hopelessly out of date. Frankly, they might have been waiting for one of the leads to die and capitalize on that.
I'm certainly not the demographic they were shooting for here, but the audience I was with was. They seemed to enjoy it a bit, but not nearly as much as audiences seemed to like the male version of this, Last Vegas. There are laughs here, but you have to really show patience because it takes forever to get there. This is clearly another nail in the coffin of rom-coms. 4/10
pov: you're at your grandparents house without streaming channels, and obligate to watch films for sixty years olds.
Slickly geared towards its target audience, but this is sadly less than the sum of its parts. And by parts, I am referring to the talented cast of actors who aren't given much to work with here, other than bland, predictable material. It's not awful, but I was glad when the final chapter of the film ended.
I'm defo not one who goes to these movies without force, but this one wasn't so bad as i thought it would be. There was a good amount of humor in it and the storyline though completely predictable was acceptable. If you have read the books it might be funnier cause you know what they talk about sometimes but its ok if you didn't cause the books were kinda lame..but then again my inner goddess isn't shocked that easily.
i like any movie with 80´s music on its soundtrack.
4 successful women and 1 is a Federal judge...so far so good. Until you realise one cooks (she has a restaurant), one cleans (she owns a hotel) and the other is a housewife (literally). The plot of the film is for these 4 strong, successful women to read 50 Shades of Grey and understand their lives aren't complete until they have a man.
Watching Book Club you will be struck by how many white people are on this planet and how few people of colour there are in this film. The only non-white characters in this movie are the help. Yes, seriously.
Book Club, literally, is an example of everything I hate in movies. Facile characters, stereotypical plots, predictable story lines, mediocre acting, telegraphed jokes, insulting to women and secretly racist... I know my mum is more a member of the target audience than I, but this film just makes me feel sorry for her and the film's public at large.
I just finished this movie, and yes it's a light-hearted rom-com, but man is it drenched in clichés. I didn't have hight expectations, and they were barely met. The list of actresses and actors is super impressive, but this was too predictable.
This is like a movie version of elevator music.
Mäh. Great to have older actors still getting roles. But the story was boring and nothing was exciting at all. Predictable as hell and that's it. Nothing more to say.
A really satisfying film, I didn't expect to laugh so much .. I find it a light and fun movie to watch, but it contains an important meaning, that no matter age or love nothing will always find its way even in the most tortuous ones.
Who ever said vaginas came with a sell-by date?
do old people just drink alcohol is that their job?
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Amazing film with adult themes and humour throughout. loved watching it and can't wait for release to watch it again