Review: This film may not be a great movie, but I personally still had fun watching it.
What works best about this movie is that we root for the main characters. This is achieved in various ways. One way is the A Night at the Opera principal, where our antagonists are such jerks to our main characters we automatically want them to prove these jerks wrong. Another way this is done is because we hope when we grow old, we can do so without giving up on life, still enjoying ourselves and fighting for what we want to do. So in a way this movie is a bit of wish fulfillment. Probably the most important factor is the cast. Everyone in this movie puts out such great energy and seems to be having a lot of fun. This spirit goes a long way and makes the audience have fun as well. The of this film is not as consistently laugh out loud funny as one may want. However that does not mean there are no laugh out loud moments as well as some good chuckles. This is not a hilarious comedy, but it does have its moments.
However you have to have seen very few movies not to recognize various plot points. There is nothing in this movie that we have not seen before and while this movie certainly does not do a bad job with the story, there are still other movies that have done this better. You can tell what is going to happen from the start and there are no surprises along the way at all. Though much of the time the movie is charming despite this there are a few times when this can feel tedious and it feels like the movie might be going through the motions more than a little.
This is not great cinema by any means, but if you are like me and sometimes just enjoy a nice time out at the movies, than this is a fun choice. Not every movie needs to be great sometimes fun and charming are enough.
Plus as a country music fan, I am always happy to hear Tammy Wynette song in a movie. :)
-Michael J. Ruhland
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