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Hilarious Movie with a Fantastic CastJuly 19, 2004 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this movie! The cast is wonderful, the plot is truly inspiring, and it'll have you in tears of laughter. Set against the beautiful scenery of Yorkshire, this charming comedy is a delight to behold!
a smart, lovely comedy!!July 18, 2004 Alison(USA) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This movie is inspired by a true story where these middle aged women go in the nude posing for their calendar which becomes a huge success! I really loved this movie for its wonderful acting and it was hilarious!! The whole way I felt like cheering the women on! This movie made me laugh out loud and its a great change from some other funny movies that all they offer is bathroom jokes and other stupid humor. This is a one of a kind smart hilarious movie!!
Marginal, at bestJuly 17, 2004 0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of those small budget Britcoms that is supposed to be hilarious and all the trailer clips suggest that. Problem is it's not very funny, well-acted, or even mildly engaging. It's flat out boring. It is not a female "The Full Monty," as the ad campaign leads you to think. If that were the case I would have loved it. Others can re-tell the plot, but there isn't really much beyond these ordinary women in a small English town do a nude calendar to raise money and all the hinjinx prevail. Except there really are no hijinx. Just the usual stereotypical disapproving neighbors and officials, combined with the always surprising support from the most unlikely (wink-wink) circles. Been there--seen that over and over. It's as if every cliche in these types of movies were rehashed over and over.
Save your money. Frankly, I think the positive reviews on this are the true comedy.
a joyous comedyJuly 12, 2004 Roland E. Zwick(Valencia, Ca USA) 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
One of the most delightful films of recent years, "Calendar Girls," a distaff version of "The Full Monty," is the true story of a group of middle-aged English women who became international celebrities when they designed and posed for a nude fundraising calendar that sold millions of copies worldwide. Julie Walters and Helen Mirren head a wonderful cast, with Walters as a woman whose husband dies of leukemia and Mirren as her best friend who comes up with the idea of the calendar as a way of both honoring his memory and raising money for the local hospital.
The risk for any "feel good" comedy is that it will become cloying, coy or cutesy. Luckily, "Calendar Girls" boasts an enormously witty screenplay and first-rate performances by its highly gifted cast. Each of the "girls" is given her own unique personality so that we see them not just as a group, united in this inspiring endeavor, but as individuals working through their own personal demons on the rode to the project's completion. The women face the expected roadblocks and snafus in the form of "shocked," disapproving voices in the community, but their belief in the rightness of their cause brushes all such problems aside.
This charming film provides more genuine, out-and-out laughs than almost any comedy of recent times. "Calendar Girls" is heartwarming, touching and inspiring - and what more could one ask from a "feel-good" film than that?
The flowers of England in full bloom and full wit.July 12, 2004 A. Ryan(Westminster, CA USA) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Despite the suggestive nature of the title and the idea that these women posed nude, Calendar Girls is really very wholesome and PG. This is the type of movie you can safely see with church friends, your mother, and/or your sisters.
The members of Napely, England's chapter of the Women's Institute have been in a rut for quite some time now with trivial activities and a yearly fundraiser that barely breaks even. Best friends Chris and Annie only joined because their mothers wanted it and because, well, there's not much else to do for fifty-somethings in a northern village. When Annie's husband tragically dies of cancer one year, the two are inspired to raise money for cancer research and break out of their ruts and their stereotypes as middle-aged women; an artistic calendar featuring nude chapter members is just the thing.
Naturally, the very idea sends the whole country into an uproar as soon as the calendars are released.
Calendar Girls has a charm and a snickering wit about it that makes for a surprisingly entertaining film. This story could have turned slapstick or lewd, but I find that it was actually very tastefully done. In fact, much of the plot really involved the funny and touching releationships between the women of this idyllic village. Without being heavyhanded on the central message, the story suggests a hopefulness to the viewer; the idea that nobody runs out of potential at any age, and that indeed anything is still possible for those who challenge their own perceived limits in life. And of course as an American, I thought the "snapshots" of life in northern Britain were a very charming bonus.
I can happily recommend Calendar Girls to just about anybody over the age of 10, but especially to women who would dearly love to see what happens when the world is shocked just a little and forced to change its view of women that are typically taken for granted. -Andrea, aka Merribelle
