Book Club (2018) was An Experience. A cracktastic experience.
So the basic premise for this movie is “Four friends’ lives are turned upside down when their book club tackles the infamous “50 Shades of Grey.” From discovering new romance to rekindling old flames, they inspire each other to make their next chapter the best chapter.” (Thanks, Google)
That…that does not really capture how incredibly bonkers this film is. Because this film is absolutely B-O-N-K-E-R-S. Like it’s two bananas short of a banana split.
How I came to see this film since it had not been on my radar at all. Well, Spice #3 texted me and went “So I need you to watch this movie with me” which was both very suspicious and very intriguing. Anytime one of the Spices tell me “you gotta see this” it is always either going to be mind-blowingly awesome or mind-blowingly shitmazing. There’s no in-between.
It has an amazing cast, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Andy Garcia, Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, and Don Johnson are most of the main cast and it’s wonderful in the way that I snickered hard enough to strain muscles watching this movie.
I straight up cannot believe this movie got made. This is the kind of movie where you have Very
Sincere Doubts that anyone involved in the writing was sober by any metric. This is visual crackfic and I know crackfic. I “came of age” during the wild west fandom years – I have read crackfic and written crackfic, I can tell you what quality crack from non-quality crack is.
This was glorious crackfic of the kind where it took me back to the LJ days pre-Strikethrough and it was amazing.
