Book Club came out in May 2018 and was counter programming to Avengers: Infinity War which came out a few weeks prior. Book Club did surprisingly well earning 68 million domestically. There is a sequel coming out this May. It has an all star cast with Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen as the quartet of friends who are in a book club. The group of friends read the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy and it spices up their own lives.

I enjoyed Book Club. It was a fun movie with likeable characters. I know when the movie was getting ready to open there were a lot of people who felt the movie looked stupid. Everyone is entitled to have their opinion. Based off that, I was thinking the movie would bomb but it did not. I think what makes the movie is the cast, specifically the four leads. The stars of the movie are legends at this point. They all have had esteemed careers between film and television. The supporting cast does a good job as well but its really the four ladies who shine. It may be a silly plot especially using Fifty Shades of Grey as the main device for the film, but I think the actresses’ performances are what make the movie good. I routed for the characters and that is the testament to the actresses. Don Johnson, Andy Garcia, and Craig T. Nelson are also in the film as love interests or in the case of Craig T. Nelson, husband. All three actors also have been around for many years and been in both film and television. They do what the roles require but its really the women who carry the movie which also makes sense since the film is about them.

Book Club is a fun movie, and it is funny with likeable characters. It also does have a message about life which I think is universal regardless how old anyone is. I am looking forward to seeing where the characters are in the sequel.