By Holly
Girls Trip
Delightful actresses--Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tiffany Haddish--in a story of friendship. I love seeing women supporting women stories. This one got a little too TOO for me, and too long at 2 hours, but I enjoyed enough of it. Regina Hall gave a subtle performance that raised the quality for me.
I'd give it a B-
Intolerable Cruelty
A not-their-best Coen Bros. film, kinda sorta almost a little bit worth seeing just because George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones are so good looking and charming.
C+
Love Punch
Emma Thompson, IMHO, can do very little to no wrong. Pierce Brosnan is (like Clooney and Zeta-Jones above) good looking and charming. This romantic comedy had potential: a businessman and his employees are cheated out of their retirement funds by the new owner of the company. He, along with his ex-wife, decide to work together to get the money back, in the form of a $10,000,000 diamond the new owner bought for his fiance.
Included in the "comedy" in this romcom, Thompson/Brosnan, with the help of their friends Timothy Spall and Celia Imrie, drug and restrain 2 couples who are going to a wedding where the bride will be wearing the diamond. The restraining, complete with duct tape over mouths and hands and feet tied, is just not funny.
Negatives: inconsistencies! Brosnan is afraid of heights when it suits the story, and not afraid of heights at other times.
Brosnan/Thompson have NO MONEY yet manage to pay for hotel rooms, scuba gear, rental cars, etc.
Things that couldn't ever happen, happen.
The wacky physical comedy isn't funny: Watch 4 people in their 50s climb a cliff! Watch Thompson play beach volleyball with women half her age and in perfect shape! Watch Imrie accidentally shoot a gun in a busy restaurant. Watch Thompson/Brosnan climb out a window and walk along a skinny ledge on the side of a building to get to the room with the diamond. Not LOL.
Here comes the "howevers." Nice chemistry between Emma and Pierce. Enjoyable sidekicks in the form of Spall/Imrie who really get into the spirit of the heist, learning things about each other after 35 years of marriage. The France locations are stunning. It's great seeing "older" people get to do things. I just wish they had been give better things to do.
Final grade: C
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