Ricki and the Flash is directed by Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) and written by Diablo Cody and stars Meryl Streep as Ricki/Lynda head of the Flash rock band who is asked by her estranged husband (Kevin Kline) to help look after their daughter (Mamie Gummer, Streep's real life daughter) after she has a breakdown but getting her back to health will not be easy.
I think it is fair to say that this along with Brad Bird's Tomorrowland would have to be the most boring movies I sat through all year so far as there is literally nothing here to grasp to on screen and look at the talent involved, Demme, Cody, Streep, Kline hell even Sebastian Stan (Bucky the Winter Soldier) appears briefly in this but all of them just dropped the ball although unfortunately Stan's character didn't turn into the Winter Soldier at the end of the film and killed everyone which I started to wish would happen.
And literally there is none of the bite or edge or sharpness to Cody's work like you saw in Jennifer's Body or Young Adult and Demme is a good director but he was the wrong man for this job, Cody should've taken the reigns herself and it might have made for an interesting film (or at least one with more edge to it like Young Adult had.) but I will say that Gummer does make the best of the very small role she has and I thought possessed some of the fire her mother showed in performances like Silkwood a fire that has now long burnt out.
And so that was Ricki and the Flash, a near complete borefest to watch, 1 out of 5.
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