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GagaJo Fri 02-Jun-23 09:31:16

Had hopes of being mildly entertained with this. I didn't expect a lot but got less.

What pap. Just a vehicle for the actors with no real entertainment value. Not to mention the weird distorted plastic surgery faces that weirded me out.

GagaJo Fri 02-Jun-23 09:32:02

One weird too many. Apologies!

merlotgran Fri 02-Jun-23 10:40:40

Oh dear! I’m going to see this with a friend next week. We belong to a cinema goers group and quite frankly the woman who runs it seems to think we’re all one step away from the care home and picks some real stinkers (as far as I’m concerned)

This sounds like another one. 😩

GagaJo Fri 02-Jun-23 12:04:45

merlotgran

Oh dear! I’m going to see this with a friend next week. We belong to a cinema goers group and quite frankly the woman who runs it seems to think we’re all one step away from the care home and picks some real stinkers (as far as I’m concerned)

This sounds like another one. 😩

This is definitely aimed at an elderly audience. But as you said, one step away from a care home. No understanding that a mature audience are as capable of appreciating cinema as 30 somethings.

I thought Jane Fonda was terrible in it. Steenburgen & Keaton not much better. Candice Bergen was better.

Norah Fri 02-Jun-23 13:00:32

However, Andy Garcia a bit short/chubby - brilliant.

Washerwoman Fri 02-Jun-23 14:20:26

The trailers have done nothing to entice me to watch this.I like the odd easy to watch feel good film but this looks utter drivel.

merlotgran Thu 08-Jun-23 15:38:41

I have just got back from seeing this and it was absolutely dire!

If I hadn’t gone with others I would have walked out after ten minutes. I now know how a small child feels at the beginning of a long journey and pleads, ‘Are we nearly there yet?’

By the end I felt angry that this film is aimed at the over sixty/seventy age group and all we need to be entertained is plastic Hollywood perfection, man hungry women, puerile humour without a shred of wit and a ridiculous plot.

The only good thing was the beautiful Italian scenery and there wasn’t much of that.

SachaMac Thu 08-Jun-23 16:00:57

Oh dear I was going to see this with a group of friends at the weekend, we have been a little disappointed with the last few films we have been to see, the best bits seem to have all been in the trailers. We recently saw 80 for Brady which Jane Fonda was also in, that was ok.