Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Film Review - Book Club (2018)

Book Club stars Mary Steenburgen, Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda and Candice Bergen as 4 women who form a Book Club every month and each of them pick a book for the 4 of them to read and one of them picks Fifty Shades of Grey and it gets all of them stimulated for love, life and sex which for some includes finding love again and getting back into the dating game.

Book Club is good fun and worth a watch with a cinema crowd that for me was laughing quite a bit and I definitely laughed a fair bit as well and a lot of that charm comes down to that wonderful cast of ladies who play off each other really well and have great chemistry as well as delivering some great laughs and I have to say I really liked seeing Ms Bergen on screen again.

The 4 ladies also have some fun male actors to play off of as well with Don Johnson he of Heartbeat the song and Miami Vice fame getting a small role, Wallace Shawn (“Inconceivable”) has a really fun cameo as does Richard Dreyfuss but its Andy Garcia once again showing that he has aged really well and pretty much turned into Terry Benedict from the 2001 Oceans Eleven and like in Mamma Mia 2 gets many of the films best moments and I also liked seeing Alicia Silverstone again it felt like an eternity since I last saw her on screen.

Oh and Craig T. Nelson has a fun gag with Mr. Incredible all the way down in his pants.

And so that was Book Club a fun and light hearted romp that I had fun with, 3 out of 5.

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