This isn't an awful movie; it has some funny bits and makes some emotionally valid points, but I have to object to the scene where the Jack character tries to cook a meal and instead starts a fire and produces inedible garbage. How many times have we seen that? How many thousand times? Sheesh.
shareI don't know how many times. But hey, some men aren't good cooks. I guess thats why there are microwave dinners.
shareTrue, it is far from a cliche - my husband, well, let's just say you don't want to go near the kitchen on the rare occasions he tries to cook. If he cooked on a daily basis, I'm sure there'd be a grease fire within a week or less. And he's 50, let alone 20 years older, a generation where men could reasonably be expected to be helpless in the kitchen!
shareActually, that scene was reminiscent of the beginning of "The Four Seasons" in which a younger Len Cariou, along with Alan Alda and Jack Weston, were attempting to cook a Chinese meal for their wives and ended up causing a similar fire. The meal however, got rave reviews!!!!
sharepffft...the whole film's a cliche. A bunch of Jewish seniors living in Florida doing exercises in the pool and mall walking? Gee...THERE'S something new!!!
shareLOL. But that's exactly how it is in South Florida! I grew up there. What would actually have been cliche is if they were all Canadian snowbirds.
However, I am first-generation Florida, and I am the first and only half-Jewish person in my family, so I see your point. I didn't really notice a lot of Jewishness being discussed in the film though. I don't live there anymore, but I know after I turn fifty there's nowhere else in America I would rather be than Palm Beach County. Older people can really LIVE there, and have social lives that don't involve shuffleboard and Denny's. I'm glad the movie didn't try to put a twist on what is really a pretty accurate depiction of South Floridians, right down to their goofiness.
How many times? About as many times as we've seen women cooking and NOT burning anything, I would imagine.
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