This one was REALLY BAD. I would have walked out after 15 minutes but Sandy wanted to stay. It was like two or three movies patched together. Got a little better as it went along. Probably had two or three writers. (But it was at least better than the Book of Mormon).
First the stereotyping of these unfortunate kids that were brought up in Newark NJ was pitiful. Absolutely no characterization . . . AT ALL. They weren't people. They were just school dropouts that were bums. At least Robert De Niro in Taxi was a person. Christopher Walken, who was supposed to be some sort of mob boss should be ashamed that he took a part in this movie.
Then the bums make good because they meet a songwriter who's songs click with the times.
Not worth going on with this mess of this movie except the ending was stolen from the movie FAME.
I gave it a D- and not an F because the redo of the music, the Four Seasons sang, was the only good part of the picture.
Some comments from Rotten Tomatoes:
• At times the movie version of "Jersey Boys" captures the electric excitement of the musical, but for every soaring moment, there are 10 minutes of bickering or brooding.
• [The movie] hauls out just about every showbiz cliché in the catalog.
• Some of [characters'] recklessness is so reminiscent of imbecilic television personalities that, by the end of the film's 2 hour 15 minute runtime, they can get a bit grating, which is enhanced by a story that gets progressively heavy-handed as it goes on
• The film doesn't work as a drama, it doesn't work as a comedy and it sure as heck doesn't work as a musical...In all, Jersey Boys delivers the one thing we never expect to see from the latter-day Clint Eastwood: mediocrity.
• At best, it's a watchable mess (right down to its prestige-picture muted color and Eastwood's trademark bad old-age make-up), but it is a mess.
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