The premise is good - and the cast is great - the premise is that an inventor who.invents the temporary fountain of youth, and then dies.
His wife and two friends find this and it works for a few hours! There follows a shallow exploration of the age divide (40yrs) and then the movie screenplay goes 'what the heck' and they go to Vegas. And then it incredibly begins to drag with some more thoughts and stock characters and what ifs.
We all have to walk our own paths says the drag queen. Got that right!
Then - the story moves and there's a big twist - wait for it ... and it's back to the beginning nearly..
I wanted this movie to be very clever and yet it never really had a good robust storyline to match the idea. But as a chick flic it passes (a sort of lesser Mamma Mia! -and the remake) with a sweet conclusion.
Btw Lulu is great and never needed to de-age!!
His wife and two friends find this and it works for a few hours! There follows a shallow exploration of the age divide (40yrs) and then the movie screenplay goes 'what the heck' and they go to Vegas. And then it incredibly begins to drag with some more thoughts and stock characters and what ifs.
We all have to walk our own paths says the drag queen. Got that right!
Then - the story moves and there's a big twist - wait for it ... and it's back to the beginning nearly..
I wanted this movie to be very clever and yet it never really had a good robust storyline to match the idea. But as a chick flic it passes (a sort of lesser Mamma Mia! -and the remake) with a sweet conclusion.
Btw Lulu is great and never needed to de-age!!