Judy stars Renee Zellweger as Judy Garland in the final year or so of her life in 1968/69 as she struggles to get her life back in order to spend time with her children, sooner or later a chance to perform in London comes up and this could be a way to get it all back.
Judy is mainly worthwhile for the great performance by Ms Zellweger as Ms Garland, she is in virtually every scene of this film and she is never boring to watch from the body language to the semi gone voice that can still captivate a crowd and there are some great concert moments scattered throughout the film.
Outside of her however the film itself is a pretty much straight up and down biopic where you learn about some her childhood with MGM, her various marriages and the tries to get into more of her children’s lives and its all really framed around that last 12 months and after a while I began to get a bit bored of it all and was checking my watch on a couple of occasions.
What was interesting and I wish more of the movie had explored this side more is her treatment by MGM studios and Ms Darci Shaw is a great likeness for the young Ms Garland and is clearly capable of helping to carry the film and those scenes with her and the MGM studio bosses were very interesting to me given the constant diet of pills and strict guidelines she had to deal with that would have devastating consequences later on in life but sadly they are only a few scenes of the film and I wish it had been explored a little more especially given the Weinstein revelations of 2 years ago.
And so that was Judy and its perfectly fine but really only worth a watch for Ms Zellweger’s great performance, 2 out of 5.
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