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Speaker 1: Break the Flick with Benocee on ninety six a FM

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Speaker 1: The Book Club.

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Speaker 2: The next chapter book Club two. So I'm going to

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Speaker 2: start this review with some statistics, like all good movie reviews. So,

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Speaker 2: according to the United Nations, the over sixty five demographic

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Speaker 2: is the fastest growing age group on the planet. Right, So,

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Speaker 2: for the first time in human history, back in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 2: what did you say, over sixty five?

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Speaker 1: Over sixty fives?

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Speaker 2: So back in twenty eighteen, for the first time in

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Speaker 2: human history, there were more people over sixty five than

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Speaker 2: there were under five. It's never happened before. And in like,

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Speaker 2: by the year twenty fifty, a quarter of all people

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Speaker 2: living in Europe and North America will be sixty five

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Speaker 2: or older. So it's a rapidly increasing aging population around

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Speaker 2: the world. Right. It's a bit of pressure on pensions,

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Speaker 2: doesn't it. But the entertainment industry really hasn't really catered

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Speaker 2: to this group very well at all. But now all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden they've realized, you know what, people over

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Speaker 2: sixty five have money, they have time, and they also

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Speaker 2: from a generation who loves going to the movies. Yes,

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Speaker 2: they have an attention span, not like the kids these days,

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Speaker 2: who want to see their moving pictures on the tickety top.

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Speaker 1: It's not over forty five seconds.

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Speaker 2: It's boring. And so so along came The book Club

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Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen, starring an all icons cast. You have

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Speaker 2: Oscar winners Diane Keaton, Jane Fonder, Mary Steenbergen, Ted Danson's wife,

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Speaker 2: and also like a multi multi Emmy winner, Candas Bergen

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Speaker 2: from Murphy Brown fame. So they just don't get much

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Speaker 2: better than that. As far as as far as actresses

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Speaker 2: help line they put them into. This comedy was a mediocre.

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Speaker 2: It was about a book club, four lifelong friends. They

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Speaker 2: decide the book of the month is going to be

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Speaker 2: fifty shades of gray, and then things get a bit

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Speaker 2: raunchy from there and they start aging disgracefully. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 2: amazing making that book. The book it was like predictable.

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Speaker 2: It kind of was a bit patron yeah, exactly, but

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Speaker 2: it made a ton of money, like I made one

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty million dollars around the world, and so

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Speaker 2: of course they're going to do a sequel. That's what

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Speaker 2: book Club. The next chapter is there's no really book

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Speaker 2: attached to it, you know, so I don't expect any

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Speaker 2: kind of literary literary examination here. Instead, they decide to

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Speaker 2: go on a jaunt to Italy, ostensibly as a hen's

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Speaker 2: trip for Jane Fonda's character before she gets married to

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Speaker 2: Don Johnson. And so off they go. And that's the thing.

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Speaker 2: There's some great older actors in here, Andy Garcia as

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Speaker 2: well and Don Johnson. It's a really cool cast in

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Speaker 2: the same for women. So all the girls are back,

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Speaker 2: they go to Italy, they tour around Rome, go to Tuscany, Venice,

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Speaker 2: some classic, some classic, basic, some beautiful scenery. So there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of that going on. The jokes bizarrely off color,

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Speaker 2: like the sort of jokes you find in a Seth

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Speaker 2: Rogan movie. There's a joke about mother Teresa and what

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Speaker 2: she does while she's I'm not even going to go

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Speaker 2: into it. Let's just say it is so inappropriate. I'm

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Speaker 2: not approved.

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Speaker 1: But you give them how Mary, it's definitely none is

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Speaker 1: behaving badly, and but the performances from the key cast

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Speaker 1: are all really good.

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Speaker 2: But unfortunately the dialogue is just so clunky, like it

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Speaker 2: is some of the worst dialogue you'll see in a movie,

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Speaker 2: which is just such a shame when you have these

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Speaker 2: amazing actresses and then you give them such a terrible

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Speaker 2: script to work with and it's im you know, like

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Speaker 2: they can get into trouble with the cops over over

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Speaker 2: some rubbish and then they have to will they make

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Speaker 2: it to the you know, to the wedding on time.

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Speaker 2: It's just the biggest bunch of cliches you could ever imagine,

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Speaker 2: and it doesn't really showcase their talents as well as

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Speaker 2: it might have.

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Speaker 1: You can't just get a great cast and think that's

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Speaker 1: gonna enough.

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Speaker 2: It's not enough to them. Watch all the Exotic Merrygold

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Speaker 2: Hotel movies are being into this one moment and that's

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Speaker 2: that's the thing, right crowd. The British do this type

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Speaker 2: of cinema very well. They do cater to older audiences

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Speaker 2: in a way that Hollywood hasn't been able to figure out,

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Speaker 2: and movies like Best Exotic Margot Hotel is a great

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Speaker 2: example of how to do it well. This is the

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Speaker 2: opposite spectrum, but it will still probably do well just

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Speaker 2: because there are not many options for people who want

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Speaker 2: to see people that look like them on the screen

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Speaker 2: and you're over sixty five, yeah, eighty five, yeah, and

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Speaker 2: the not going to I spoke to. I spoke to

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Speaker 2: her last week. She's doing fantastically well. Jane fond yep,

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Speaker 2: coming back, coming back from not Hodgkins last year, because

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Speaker 2: you spoke to that's I think that's the sort of

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Speaker 2: joke that was in How Many Cheeseboards book Club Nie

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Speaker 2: two and a half cheese Balls, then the dialogue thank

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Speaker 2: you bea