What happens when you put a dash of inspiration from the 50 Shades of Grey the Musical Parody and focus on the book club members? Why, you get a film with the title Book Club, of course. And lots of "Titas of Manila" feels, even though the actresses involved are already between 65 to 80 years old.
Let's start with Diane Keaton, who not only plays one of the leads here, but is also a book author herself. Even though the plot is quite predictable, Diane and the other established actresses, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen, all manage to sink their teeth in the roles they were given.
It is easy to at least enjoy the film if you would focus on the actresses' performances rather than the obvious photoshopped backgrounds and CGI. Think Sex and the City minus too much focus on designer items. Like the book of E.L. James the characters swear by, the men in the actual story all exist to serve the women. You have this one guy who waited for about half a century only to be rebuffed by his prideful conquest, and you have another man happily married for decades to his wife who always seem to plan everything and think of intimacy at inopportune moments.
For millenials, this might be something challenging to take in. But, for men and women in their midlife, there is much to laugh about.
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