Divine
Secrets of
the Ya Ya Sisterhood
(Warner Bros) Rated PG-13
Release Date - June 7, 2002
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Starring:
Ellen Burstyn, Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd,
Maggie Smith, Fionnula Flanagan
Directed by: Callie Khouri
Produced by: Bonnie Bruckheimer, Hunt Lowry
Written by: Mark Andrus, Callie Khouri, Rebecca Wells
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I loved watching all the actresses work in this film. Give Smith, Flanagan, Knight and Burstyn a
phone book to read and you have something worth watching. Of course, that didn’t keep me from laughing
as every time the film introduced a new female character,
a new country was represented.
Smith, Flanagan, MacKenzie and Gina McKee are
just four examples. Don’t
we have enough actresses in America?
David Rasche and Cherry Jones team up
for an intensely dramatic sequence.
It was great to see Rasche breaking out of his comedy
mold, but unfortunately, the Cherry Jones stuff is
so poorly developed that it comes off as shrill short-hand.
In the end, Ya-Ya is not a very good movie. The staff around Callie Khouri was very
game, but she really didn’t know how to frame the most basic
shots. Had the director been George Roy Hill
or maybe Alan Parker, it would have been a movie a
step above Steel Magnolias.
But it wasn’t. It wasn’t like having my teeth pulled either.
(No matter… they were all pulled by Bad Company
the night before.) It just wasn’t special. And
that was frustrating, because this cast was more than extraordinary.
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