The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by
Director Roger Goldby tinkers with important issues around aging, only to steamroll it all with a slipshod script.
United Kingdom · 2017
1h 45m
Director Roger Goldby
Starring Joan Collins, Pauline Collins, Franco Nero, Ronald Pickup
Genre Comedy
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Determined to gatecrash her ex-lover's funeral on glamorous French hideaway Île de Ré, former Hollywood siren Helen escapes her London retirement home with help of repressed English housewife Priscilla and they hit the road together in a race to get to the funeral on time.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by
Director Roger Goldby tinkers with important issues around aging, only to steamroll it all with a slipshod script.
A likably lame rattletrap of a road movie that gets what limited spark it has from the “Dynasty” diva’s still-lascivious on-screen charisma.
It’s badly paced, has too many plotlines crammed in and gives Joan’s character one-liners that come off as mean rather than Alexis-sassy.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
There is a creeping and depressing awfulness to this sentimental silver-years comedy.
The Telegraph by Robbie Collin
There’s little chemistry and less comic frisson, thanks in part to the weird seams of pettiness and condescension running through the script.
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