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Jersey Boys

2014
Drama, Biography
2h 14m
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Rated 20 Jun 2014
40
11th
1 complete slog through Italian stereotype nonsense for the first hour then another slog through medium shot hell. When the camera actually kinda moved around I shit my pants I was so startled. The last minute of this made me hate it because it was lively and entertaining. Of course this movie was made by a 100 year old man.
Rated 28 Jun 2015
3
27th
Remember when Jersey boy gets married than like an hour later you finally see his wife again and hes all of a sudden got 3 kids and you're meant to care about their family drama? Terrible editing and storytelling. An empty vessel.
Rated 18 Sep 2014
30
15th
I cannot fathom how these guys got famous. Franki Valli sounds like a squirrel being tortured. And Eastwood - don't even get me started on Eastwood...
Rated 09 Mar 2019
1
5th
Proves that you don’t actually need an old cast of characters to feel like an elderly, decrepit-ass doddering movie for the nursing home rec room. I actually felt myself ordering a rocking chair and Murder She Wrote box set while watching this movie about music your grandparents listened to. On the plus side it was so fuckin’ Italian it inspired me to make some spaghetti after watching and that was way better than the movie
Rated 21 Jun 2014
50
19th
I was the only person under the age of 60 in the theater. I haven't been around so many old people since LAST VEGAS.
Rated 24 Jun 2014
94
91st
I didn't have high hopes for this, but the blend of jukebox vocal pop, classic gangster elements, and nostalgic Italian-American cultural ephemera really worked for me. I was grinning throughout; it's infused with a cheeky spirit, even amidst the gangster grit, that keeps things utterly watchable. It's a genuinely compelling story, the songs are classics, and the lead performances are uniformly great.
Rated 18 Sep 2014
50
45th
Mediocre...like most biopics. Better than "Ray" but falls way short of "La Bamba".
Rated 09 Oct 2014
65
39th
Jersey Boys can't decide if it's a biopic drama or a musical. It seems like Eastwood had to chose between great actors or great singers and got neither. It's not gritty and realistic enough for a mob drama. A forget-about-it here and there does not a gangster drama make. Ironically it's too gritty and realistic for a musical. Songs need to be more than concerts and white noise in the background. I love Frankie Valli and enjoyed the movie, but it never reached the heights of La Bamba or even Ray!
Rated 11 Oct 2014
47
2nd
Pop biopics are dull enough if you follow the formula to a tee, but who on earth thought Eastwood's unwaveringly sober style (which made his "J. Edgar" as awful as it was) was a good match for a Broadway musical adaptation? There are moments of levity and the performances could be worse (Vincent Piazza is actually very good) but what a drag this film is. Eastwood in recent years has been satisfied with his films just being barely watchable and competent, but where the hell is the fun in that?
Rated 25 Oct 2014
87
82nd
Quem tá falando que esse filme é medíocre só pode estar louco.
Rated 15 Nov 2014
42
31st
Has same problem as the stage musical, in that it's a nice story without any kind of satisfying resolution. A stage show can get away with it though because it can finish on a good song & everyone goes away happy. That kind of lazy plotting in a movie leaves much to be desired. Some of the worst sections of the stage script are also verbatim transcripted & come across poorly on screen. Eastwood seriously needs to start employing better make-up artists too. Sounded really great though.
Rated 19 Dec 2014
65
54th
I'm not really that familiar with Frankie Valli or The Four Seasons, apart from their big hits, so it was nice to learn about them. While this isn't the biopic, I quite enjoyed it. The music's great, of course, and the four leads worked well. Clint Eastwood's direction is fine, but perhaps not perfect for a movie like this. It could've used more of a sense of fun, and I'm not sure Eastwood has that. It's maybe a bit too long, but I had a good time with most of it.
Rated 09 Jan 2015
38
29th
Fairly uninspired, with the exception of Tom Stern's cinematography. The look he got evoked the '60's in the most uncanny way... by far the best thing about the movie.
Rated 22 Feb 2015
75
63rd
I do wish it had been more a more showy production like the stage musical, which is far and away the greatest jukebox musical ever written. However, it still manages to keep most of the interest. It's a bit too low-key, but the story itself doesn't suffer for it, and the leading performances are great.
Rated 03 Apr 2015
6
41st
Jersey Boys is a film I enjoyed much more than most. I haven't seen the stage show, so I cannot comment on how faithful this adaption may or may not be. However I am a huge fan of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, so I thoroughly enjoyed all the music. But the acting is of mixed quality, there are pacing issues and tonally this adaption can't quite decide whether it wants to be a biopic or a musical. As expected though, Clint Eastwood's direction and cinematography is still visually impressive.
Rated 18 Jun 2015
70
70th
Biopic of the story of the Four Seasons and Frankie Valli's struggle for success. Presents gritty details of their personal relationships that destroys the group. Franky is a stand up guy who takes on a huge debt to protect his friend. A good showcase of his musical career. Excellent performance from John Lloyd Young as Frankie. Huge diverse cast. Well made, entertaining and interesting throughout.
Rated 19 Nov 2015
3
59th
I digged it. I'm still listening to the soundtrack.
Rated 02 Apr 2016
65
72nd
Enjoyed this. Clint obviously had a lot of fun filming it. The music is great. A very cheeky cameo by Clint. Christopher Walken is awesome too.
Rated 02 Jun 2016
65
45th
Material matched less to Eastwood's ear than late Eastwood's "lush-yet-rushed" style (c/o Adam Nayman), the shadows only visible so as to brighten the stagelights. Who could possibly give a shit otherwise?
Rated 26 Feb 2017
35
14th
Long and did not go anywhere but good music
Rated 21 Apr 2017
53
32nd
Why Eastwood was chosen for this project is anyone's guess. Sure he directed Bird, but it was neither successful nor celebratory, so Eastwood's no frills approach naturally lent itself to the material. As far as nostalgic pop pieces go, Jersey Boys is an amiable time killer with decent songs and passable performances, but it lacks energy and a strong sense of style, and it compresses multiple significant events into a reduced timeline in a way that negatively affects our emotional involvement.
Rated 09 Aug 2017
61
47th
I liked it. It's too long, it doesn't reach as deep as it should into Frankie Valli's soul, but one still does get to know these guys, while the reliably catchy tunes push it to the finish line.
Rated 11 Jan 2018
75
26th
A handsomely mounted adaptation of the jukebox musical that ignores the typical beats, set pieces and celebratory tone of the genre in favor of a more complicated rise-and-fall story about brotherhood and the American dream. Truthfully, if you don't buy into the Frankie Valli myth - and I don't - you're likely to find at least some of it really goofy. Then again, the film is more of a brooding, anti-nostalgia trip than I assume the original show must be, and it's all the better for it.
Rated 16 Oct 2020
68
30th
Something of a failure here, as a music Biopic, it's so very vanilla that everything but the songs are forgettable. Honestly, though, The Four Seasons had enough awesome songs that this movie was a long time coming, I just expected more, especially from Eastwood.
Rated 21 Jun 2014
80
80th
It isn't that the music in the (20 years and counting) run of musical anthologies is that great, although the ABBA collection in [i]Mamma Mia[/i] which started it all comes close, and it isn't even the nostalgia; it's the lack of inspiration in song writing that's able to make it past the gauntlet of suits who think music is rehashing a sound that semi-worked....once. You need go no further than the pitti-pat music in the otherwise excellent previews that accompanied this movie. This is a cry
Rated 22 Jun 2014
6
44th
Entertaining even though it drags in places and great music.
Rated 23 Jun 2014
60
40th
It's honestly sad what happened here. With fine directing and cinematography from Clint Eastwood and classic music it's hard to go wrong, but unfortunately, almost every actor gave a stale performance. Even Walken was disappointing. The story was brought down due to this, even the entertaining mob element. Overall, the music and directing, keep this poorly-acted film afloat.
Rated 27 Jun 2014
57
12th
Whatever Clint Eastwood thought he was doing with this adaptation of the stage show about the Four Seasons' rise and fall, the results are uneven at best; great songs and mostly solid (if broad) performances, marred by a clunky script filled with cliches and rather flat direction (the editing isn't too great, either). And the old age makeup at the end suggests Clint learned nothing from J. EDGAR. Watchable (though pretty dull at times), but ultimately unnecessary, except for Four Seasons buffs.
Rated 05 Jul 2014
80
75th
Having seen the stage version, this is a generally faithful adaptation. Casting was near flawless. Disappointed that a few things that I felt were key facts were left out, but that happens. ALWAYS glad to see Christopher Walken. The age makeup was pretty embarrassing though. Yikes.
Rated 05 Jul 2014
40
35th
Based as it is on a wildly successful Broadway show, perhaps director Clint Eastwood didn't have much of a choice. Moviemakers fiddle with popular source material at their peril. Still, while Eastwood's hard work shows, the choices he made also come with a cost: Yes, a moral cost for those who see his work, but also the outright loss of those discerning moviegoers who never will. (pluggedin.com)
Rated 08 Jul 2014
80
41st
I love Jersey Boys as a musical, the movie is equally good if you're a fan of the Four Seasons. Though, I do prefer the original stage performance, check this one out.
Rated 17 Jul 2014
83
50th
Award worth performances and great songs are ruined by a script that didn't seem to cut ANYTHING out. Because of this the movie drags hard in the middle and the end. Also it's hard to tell the passage of time as only Frankie Vallie gets any semblance of aging make-up.
Rated 20 Jul 2014
45
40th
Seems like a fun stage musical.
Rated 11 Aug 2014
90
81st
The way to make a musical is to make it the way Clint has: The numbers are not interruptions. They're advancements, and enhancements. You're reminded of how much you love do-wop, but you become absorbed in the story of where it came from. We see how the talent and inspiration grew out of a life of strife, as it so often does. We see through the characters' rise to fame just how history evolves into myth, heightening the ecstatic nostalgia of the film's ultimate homage to its Broadway roots.
Rated 07 Sep 2014
43
12th
Each performance so smothered in layers of bullshit. The crap age makeup at the end is a microcosm for the entire thing - who believes this? Who hasn't seen all of this before in every biopic ever made? Sucks, because the music is great. Eastwood's notoriously fast and sloppy way of shooting movies kills this and nearly every movie he's directed the past ten years. Sucks to suck.
Rated 25 Sep 2017
13
28th
6/7
Rated 01 Jun 2018
61
19th
60.50
Rated 09 Aug 2018
80
58th
Good
Rated 11 Nov 2020
30
7th
The forced acting, dreadful narration and glossy cinematography underpin an air of artificiality that saturates the entire production, while the stunted flow of the narrative inhibits any engagement in the characters' tribulations. As such, it’s barely recognisable as an Eastwood picture, and frankly should never have been adapted for the big screen.
Rated 06 Aug 2021
65
32nd
??????Dreamgirls????????????????????????????????/????????????Valli??????????Nicola?
Rated 07 May 2022
45
20th
What a weird and fascinating Eastwood-trainwreck. Nothing really makes sense in this soap opera universe, with some seriously bad singing and acting.
Rated 06 Dec 2022
60
35th
I have really mixed feelings about this one. The casting was awesome. Musical scenes were set up well without breaking the pace of the movie. It just felt so uneven at times, I was distracted away from the story. It felt like they were nobodies and suddenly they were somebodies. The characters narrating the story worked to explain what was happening, but the more the movie progressed, the more ill-fitting that feature grew.

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