Dancing At Lughnasa
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Movie Reviews of Dancing At Lughnasa
Movie Review: TOO MUCH TALKING AND TOO LITTLE DANCING
Summary: 2 Stars
FIRST LET ME SAY THAT THERE IS NO BIGGER FAN OF MERYL STREEP THAN I AM. THAT BEING SAID, THIS MOVIE WAS A DISAPPOINTMENT. I HAD HEARD JAMES LIPTON EXTOLL THE VIRTUES OF MERYL'S IRISH DANCING IN THIS FILM WHICH MADE ME WANT TO SEE IT. HER DANCING LASTED ALL OF THREE MINUTES! SHE IS HER USUAL TERRIFIC SELF, BUT THE MOVIE WAS TOO SLOW FOR ME.Movie Review: Stellar cast and director can't save this turkey!
Summary: 1 Stars
God, what a disappointment! I am a huge fan of both Meryl Streep and Michael Gambon, and I know Brian Friel has written some wonderful plays and screenplays -- so I couldn't believe what a dismal bore this turned out to be. As other reviewers have said, practically NOTHING happens, except that these five lonely, pathetic, spinster sisters sit around and bicker at each other. Streep's character is a priggish, joyless nag who makes her sisters even more depressed than they already have reason to be. At times the film seems to be building up to some climactic event (somebody will die or get knocked up), but then... nothing. And the sisters' big, exuberant dance scene near the end seemed totally fake and tacked-on to me -- I suspect they included that just so they could put it in the movie's trailer!