Will & Grace - Series Finale
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Movie Reviews of Will & Grace - Series Finale
Movie Review: good dvd
Summary: 4 Stars
its a great cd but it took so long too arrived that when it finally happened i had already bought one thinking that it wasnt going to arrivedMovie Review: "Say goodnight, Gracie."
Summary: 3 Stars
I was not a consistent "Will & Grace" viewer over the years, although I did tune in occasionally. I thought the premise of the show was great when it first came out, but Debra Messing and Sean Hayes both kind of annoyed me. Of course, all four of the main characters on the show are supposed to be annoying in their own right, and Grace and Jack eventually grew on me after a while. I think the show was at its peak during the third, fourth, and fifth seasons, which is when I watched it the most. Then the character of Will started getting on my nerves around season six and I think the show began to lose some of its momentum, so I watched it much less regularly. I did tune in for the series finale, though, and overall I thought it was pretty good. (Warning: don't keep reading if you want to avoid spoilers!)
Will and Grace both had a lot of romantic ups and downs over the years. Leo and Vince were my favorite love interests for them, so I was very happy that those two couples ended up together. However, it kind of sucked that Will and Grace drifted apart for so long. I was hoping that they'd reconcile after their two-year fight and then live happily ever after, but it didn't quite work out that way. Even though Will and Grace did make amends, their lives and families took them in two different directions and they didn't see each other at all for the next 16 years. When Will's son and Grace's daughter bumped into each other at college, they didn't even know each other! I thought that was kind of depressing. Still, it was kind of cool that Will and Grace ended up living vicariously through their children as Ben and Lila basically relived the way their parents met. Like Will and Grace, Ben and Lila hit it off instantly. They ended up getting married, and in that way, Will and Grace were eventually bonded by marriage, which was pretty cool.
It was nice to see Karen and Jack living together after so many years. The duet that they sang was actually quite touching...they're both very talented vocalists. (I also love that Karen didn't age at all! Megan Mullally was always my favorite part of the show. Karen Walker rocks.) The quick appearance by Kevin Bacon was a nice touch, especially since one of the best things about "Will & Grace" is that it featured so many fantastic guest stars over the years. (I wish the writers could have figured out a way to bring back Michael Douglas for the finale...the episode with him is one of my favorite "Will & Grace" shows ever!) I also liked the final scene that showed the gang doing shots in the bar, just like old times.
One random thing that bugged me...did anyone notice that Lila's hair was almost black when she was shown as a two-year-old, but then it magically turned the same shade of red as her mother's by the time she headed off to college? Similarly, Ben looked like an African American child as a two-year-old, but he was the splitting image of Eric McCormack when he was 18 years old. What was up with that?! Is there that much of a child's actor shortage in Hollywood? I doubt it.
Again, I think it kind of sucked that Will and Grace spent almost 20 years apart, but maybe the point of that was to illustrate that the bond between them was so strong that they never would have been able to go off on their own and form lasting relationships with other people if they'd remained as close as they always had been. Regardless, Will and Grace ended up together at the end, and that's all that really matters. I don't think the series finale of "Will & Grace" will go down as being one of the best finales in television sitcom history, but it certainly wasn't the worst, either. (Remember how they butchered "Seinfeld?" Yikes!)
Movie Review: Rush Job on DVD Package for Over-the-Top Finale Still Seems Fitting for an Enduring Sitcom
Summary: 3 Stars
Like most people I know, I think NBC's "Will & Grace" peaked approximately between seasons two and four and has since settled into a predictable rhythm of amusement and frustration compounded by an overuse of guest stars trying to upend their images. However, what remains consistent over the eight seasons is the crack timing of the four principals - Eric McCormack and Debra Messing in the title roles (even as their characters became more neurotically tiresome) and more brilliantly, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally as Jack and Karen, as perfect a match of second bananas as Ted Baxter and Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show".
While quickly releasing a DVD of a long-running series finale is becoming standard marketing practice by the networks, it actually seems a shame that a bit more thought was not given to this package even with its bargain price. The final 45-minute episode, of course, is here but not the totality of the full-hour retrospective that preceded it on its May 18 airing, "Say Goodnight, Gracie". Instead, there are two featurettes. The first is "The Final Bow", which contains backstage footage during the filming of the last episode (versus similar footage taken of the penultimate episode for the retrospective). The second is "The Last Words", which extends on the interview portions with the individual cast members shown during the retrospective. Both are serviceable extras but hardly as insightful as one would have hoped given the endurance of the series (for instance, the critical role of fortuitous scheduling as one would think some credit should be given to "Friends" as a lead-in on so-called "Must-See Thursdays"). The most glaring omission, however, is the original pilot episode since there are several direct references to it in the finale, a point lost on anyone who does not remember it.
One irrefutable point about the final episode is that the script by series creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, while not even close to the series' best, is completely in sync with the excessive, flamboyant spirit of the show itself. It was obviously not going to be enough to have the four characters play out their goodbyes in real-time. Instead, we get a dream sequence of the four characters sixteen years later; a flash-forward two years later showing Will and Grace reconciling over her perceived betrayal in rejecting Will as her baby's "father"; and most ludicrously, a fateful meeting eighteen years after that when their respective children end up living in the same college dormitory. I actually think the escalating contrivances are what make this a classic sitcom. It doesn't have to make sense as long as fans are in thrall over how the characters' lives evolve. Detractors certainly have reason to raise their eyebrows, but there are certain pleasures to be experienced, for instance, Jack and Karen's sweetly performed duet of "Unforgettable" emboldened by Mullally's supple singing voice and the silly opening dream sequence. I have to admit it would have been a nice tweak had the offspring of Will & Grace been of the same sex and that they marry without incident. To me, that would have summed up one of the underlying messages of this groundbreaking series.
Movie Review: A touching ending is ruined by stupid comedy.
Summary: 3 Stars
When I met my wife in 1998, I'd pretty much stopped watching TV due to a lack of ANYTHING I would devote my time to. She turned me on to WILL & GRACE and I was immediately hooked on it's wacky dialogue and humor. The classic episode of the leaking push-up bra remains one of the all-time great homages to I LOVE LUCY I've ever seen.
Like FRIENDS, though, the last few seasons relied more on guest star appearances as the overall writing became stale, uneven and unoriginal
Last night on NBC, it came to an end. The series finale focussed on the probable outcome of Will and Grace's friendship through the years as they each pursued seperate lives with their significant others and their own children. Their stories were touching and bittersweet, especially the sequence when their children meet in college and end up marrying each other.
Unfortunately, the episode as a whole was ruined by the one element that used to play a big part in the show's comedy; namely Jack and Karen. The comedy that was written for their characters was not only stupid, but unnecessary to the bittersweet (there's that word again) point the episode was trying to make.
I mean, come on! Karen hooking up with motorcycle-dyke Rosario? Beverly Leslie getting caught and killed in a gust of wind off the balcony? Is that really how the finale wanted to be remembered? I personally would have kept Jack and Karen off the episode until their "Unforgettable" duet together.
Well, it's over now; and I no longer have any reason what-so-ever to watch any broadcast television, because frankly, it's ALL garbage! Now I can sit back, relive the first two seasons of WILL & GRACE that I have on DVD, and remember when the show really kicked [...].
Movie Review: talk about closure....
Summary: 3 Stars
I love Will & Grace, but this finale was very disappointing....not as bad as Seinfeld's, almost as good as Friends' and not even close to Cheers'. Jack and Karen's duet got this the extra star. The end of the finale was TOO much with Will and Grace being old and their kids magically going to the same college with the same rooms and meeting up and probably dating. If I wanted that much closure I would watch the reunion show. It could have ended with them talking again after so many years apart, but the producers felt the need to go WAY into the future to try to enhance the nostalgia.