OR BETTER YET
MY WORST FILM OF 2015: RICKI AND THE FLASH!!!!!!!!!!
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Screenwriter Diablo Cody
Starring Meryl Steep; Kevin Kline; Rick Springfield; and Mamie Gummer
A musician, (Streep) who gave up everything for her dream of rock-and-roll stardom returns home, when her daughter is going through a tough time..
There had to be a place in time while making this film that Jonathan Demme thought.."UHOH!!"
I bet the studio kept thinking "Yeaaaaah But We Have Streep!"
Meryl Streep. I know it is Streep!! So miscast.
Diablo Cody. I know it is Diablo!! How did she write something so bad and corny. It is missing Diablo's quickness and her bite.
They try to throw an umbrella around this thought process of...if a man (Jagger) can leave his family to pursue a music career? What can't a woman? No!!!!! You can do both!!!!! Jagger was successful over a long period of time. Ricki was literally a flash in the pan. There is no reason she cannot do both. And it does not make Jagger right either he can do both. UGH!!!!!!! Look up Pat Benatar!! Carole King!!! They did both!!! I wonder if that angle was added to the film to try to fix things by giving it a meaning. To make Ricki look like less of a jerk. Fail.
There is a break up, played by Streep's real life daughter Mamie, she was so unpleasant. Now I saw her this year in one of my favorite films The End Of The Tour. She was on the screen for that film for maybe 15 minutes. She did a better job in that 15 minutes then was she did through out this whole mess. Here she is just plain annoying.
Streep as Ricki was unpleasant and cannot sing and it was hard to watch. Of course they thought...well it is Streep, we got her, she can do anything. AAAAAHHHH, NO SHE CANNOT!! Close to cringe worthy.
In fact other than Kline everybody in Ricki's family is unpleasant.
It is fun to watch to watch Rick Springfield, but I don't get his characters attraction to Ricki and they had absolutely no chemistry.
Then throw in a corny awful ending, involving a wedding.
This film is hard to even sit through, just bad.
From the shadows as always thanks for your time.
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