Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

By all means, watch this movie for the home decor (some really great kitchens), style tips (Diane Keaton is, as ever, impeccable), smart one-liners (expertly delivered) or Hollywood pizzazz (four very well-preserved leading ladies). It is a satisfying entertainment on all those levels - slickly produced and tastefully photographed; a light, sugary, nutritionally dubious confection of a movie. Just, whatever you do, don't stop to think about any of it. The moment you do the whole thing collapses into a sloppy, nonsensical and rather offensive heap. For one thing, all four of the central characters are patronisingly written as smart, accomplished women who are nevertheless shockingly incapable of doing even the slightest thing in the interests of their own personal happiness. Diane Keaton's character - Diane! - is bullied by her daughters into moving all the way to Arizona before she can work up the nerve to tell them that she's perfectly happy living her own life and isn't ready yet for the granny flat (or, in this case, basement). It may serve the story structure and deliver a (sort of) emotionally-satisfying crisis and climax, but it makes her pathetic and spineless. And it takes all of Keaton's likability to make it fly. It's pretty much the same dynamic with the other characters too. Fortunately, Fonda, Bergen and Steenburgen also have just enough charisma and energy to (mostly) distract from the preposterousness of it all. Of course, there's nothing wrong with a little escapism. But you'd think that these four smart women would be able to insist on slightly smarter escapism.

I laughed so many times. Love to see a movie with a stellar cast! With themes affecting over 50 age bracket. I'm not yet that age but like to hear their perspective. There are some great actors. It is great to see movies made for different markets, and great roles for women over 50

Four strong beautiful women get rescued by men AGAIN. Few laughs here and there, but the script is just pathetic. Top actors, lousy movie.

Book ClubWhen hosting a book club for 60-year olds you must remember to get copies of the novel in large print.However, the ladies in this comedy are more interested in gabbing about their sex lives.At their most recent gathering, millionaire Vivian (Jane Fonda), widow Diane (Diane Keaton), divorcee Sharon (Candice Bergen) and housewife Carol (Mary Steenburgen) undertake the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey as their next reading conquest.Over the next 30-days each woman rediscovers her sexuality: Vivian reconnects with an old flame (Don Johnson), Diane meets a pilot (Andy García), Sharon online dates and Carol resuscitates her husband's (Craig T. Nelson) libido. Handcrafted for the aging baby-boomers, this star-studded study of sex over a certain age is relevant and surely relatable. However, the jokes used to convey this significance are not that humorous. Moreover, finding love as a senior nowadays is easier than finding your reading glasses. Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca