Jersey Boys looks and feels pretty much exactly how you might expect a musical directed by Clint Eastwood to look and feel.
Adapted from the Tony-Award winning hit musical, it is awash with nostalgia. Jersey Boys provides an account of the career of Frankie Valli from his early days in the local neighbourhood through to induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the nineties. The film is shockingly traditional in terms of construction, adhering rigidly to the formula for a successful musical bio-pic, from the early grifting to the eventual discord to the heart-felt reunion epilogue, complete with questionable old-age make-up for the cast.
Jersey Boys hits all the expected notes, but never quite brings the house down.
Sign of the times…
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