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Customer Reviews
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What A Great Cast!
I really love this movie. The first time I watched it, I did have a little trouble keeping track with the which of the younger characters represented which of the older characters. However, if you go to the Internet Movie Database found easily on Google, you can look up this movie and learn the names of each character ahead of time and it will help. But even if you don't, your knowing which of the supporting characters is which is not crucial. (And maybe I'm just daft!) This movie is very enjoyable especially if you've ever known anyone who had a strained mother-daughter relationship or if you especially enjoy true female commraderie. I especially like the ending with the mother-daughter, and watching all the women interact with one another as lifelong best friends. Not for young kids due to some violence and some alcohol/drug abuse.
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More than just a comedy.
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a great and deeply moving mother and daughter film. First of all, Ellen Burstyn and Sandra Bullock have great and exciting chemistry as the bickering mother and daughter. Ashley Judd plays Burstyn's character as the film travels back in time, and boy Judd's acting is brilliant and don't say that often about her. This is the kind of role that is perfect for her, her character has depth. This movie is the best chick-flick I have come across in awhile. I highly recommend checking these crazy Ya-Ya's out. Enjoy!
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Pretty good chick flick
This isn't bad for chick flick. Sandra Bullock and James Gardner were really good in this movie. Maggie Smith was pretty funny as Caro, the friend. It's a touching story to watch. It's also very moving too.
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Go Ya Yas!
While the books do give more detail I have to agree with one of the above reviewers. I think that the movie was a lot more explanatory and didn't seem to drag on as much as the novels did. As far as the acting goes, I think they all did a pretty fair job esepcially Maggie Smith who had me laughing everytime she was on the screen. The other actor who I thought stood out the most was James Garner. I loved his interpretation of Shep, the father of Sidda yet lonely husband of Vivi. The movie makes me glued to my seat everytime so much so that I don't like to miss a minute. I would definetely recommend this "chick flick" to any woman who has had a difficult relationship with their mother over the years because it show us grownup women that in reality our mothers are not perfect and just women like us.
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A Cajun woman, reminiscing biographically of her highs and lows
DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA YA SISTERHOOD, is a movie that
will appeal mainly to young kids, and those who are
typically fans of so-called chick flicks. Not everyone is
a disciple, as demonstrated by a recent tongue in cheek
joke made on the Daily Show With Jon Stewart.
Here, Ashley Judd reprises once more her type-cast role of
someone having a delinquent side to her personality, (as
also seen in several other movies in which she's a
protagonist), and does a fine job in playing the role of
a woman, reminiscing biographically of the highs and lows
of her life, when her own daughter decides to get married
and and enter an adulthood of her own. James Garner is
credible, and charismatic, now as the elder statesman, who
gives away the bride to the groom.
The cast is well chosen, in my view, and the film's
strength is mainly its originality, although it's highest
challenge at the same time, is to make a biographical
tale, that is highly personal, of any interest to the public
at large. This objective was met, otherwise this film would
not have been made.
Therefore, the viewer is provided a vision to
someone's life story, with Sandra Bullock playing the
modern, perhaps plastic woman who is confronted with the
values, traditions of another age and era, as represented by
her Mother and her friends who themselves have their own Ya
Ya "inner joke" since childhood,. She has to deal with
that, in view of reestablishing a relationship with own
family, that for many years had grown distant, cold and
confrontational. Finally, Bobby Dylan wraps the movie,
with his own number, tying his own folk image to the
Mardi Gras, and Cajun folk culture put forth in this movie
too.
I would have given this 1 star, perhaps, but given the
realistic elements of this movie, the moderation of the
dialog (that doesn't pain too much the viewers), and the crisp
images of Louisiana, and the outdoors, the sincerity of
the actors, and quality of the acting, I had to raise it a
notch to 2 stars.
