Go see this movie, that’s all go see it!
Alright, you win, I’ll give you more. GO SEE IT!
This was a laugh riot, feel good movies that leaves you with your face hurting from smiling and laughing so much and warm fuzzies, how can you beat that?
The exact description “Three sixty-something friends take a break from their day-to-day lives to throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas for their last remaining single pal.” And now for more details.
The four main guys have known each other since they were kids, about 12 years old and then takes us 58 years later to today, the kids are all grown up. You don’t mess with the Flatbush Four “You can’t call us names, only we can!” Their favorite names for each other? A$$hole! Pr%ck!
This movie has an all star A-List phenomenal leading cast. We start with the groom-to-be, Billy, played by Michael Douglas. He is the ‘youngest’ of the group, only because he chooses to be, dyes his hair, capped teeth, spray tan, that sort of thing. He is almost 70 and his wife is almost 33, and proposes to his girlfriend at a funeral, you can see where this is going, right?
Next is Morgan Freeman, who plays Archie, and you realize just how tall he is in this movie, 6’2″ towering over the rest of the cast. As soon as one of the guys calls with news “what is it? your prostate?” he lives with his son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter and feels like a prisoner, he is well taken care of, but feels lost, like he’s the child now. He sneaks out of the house to go to Las Vegas.
Kevin Kline plays Sam, who’s been with his wife for 40 years and is kind of lost. The movie opens the scene where we meet the guys today in a water aerobics class that Sam is participating in and just keeps looking around, checking the pulse of one guy, realizing that he’s around a bunch of old people and he doesn’t feel it.
Rounding out the merry band of misfits is Paddy, played perfectly by Robert De Niro, he was the one who married their childhood friend, Sophie, the only girl in the bunch. He is lonely and sad, widowed about a year and just doesn’t want to go out, see people, be social, he just wants to be left alone.
Paddy is very angry at Billy and the other two have to trick Paddy to get him to Las Vegas and it does take a while for the two to “kiss and make up”. Completing the group, when they are in Las Vegas, they meet Diana, a singer in one of Binions [remember, mecca for DCM] lounges, played by Mary Steenburgen. She is funny and charming and a fun addition, kind of like a Sophie for today.
The gang is back together and they’re going to raise some cain, it’s a bachelor’s weekend! They start to have fun and realize that they’re still alive; just because they’re older, ‘past their prime’, they still have a lot left in them and they need to get out there, live and enjoy life! And boy do they ever!
There you have it, go see it, you’ll laugh…a lot!
Peaches Prattlings 