In Hollywood, if you are an old distinguished male actor, you either become Batman’s sidekick or a WWII veteran who escapes from assisted living (Michael Caine), God or a grieving father (Morgan Freeman), an Indiana Jones or brilliant psychotherapist (Harrison Ford), an action hero (Tom Cruise), Sigmund Freud and a Roman emperor (Sir Anthony Hopkins), or a daring drug mule (Clint Eastwood). But distinguished older actresses get cast in simple-minded comedies about old friends having silly adventures that make the lightest-weight beach read seem like Remembrance of Things Past. “The Fabulous Four” follows in the unfortunate tradition of the “Book Club” movies, “Summer Camp,” and “80 for Brady,” with an EGOT-full of brilliant talents mired in antics that “The Golden Girls” would consider too ridiculous.
Susan Sarandon as Lou is an uptight, humorless cat lady and cardiac surgeon; Bette Midler plays Marilyn, a wealthy recent widow who married again after two months since her husband died after 48 years together; Megan Mullally is Alice – a popular singer always drunk, constantly on drugs or f***ing random guys at some point all at once; Sheryl Lee Ralph as Kitty – mom to one grown up daughter who recently turned extremely religious and became judgmental all of sudden and is now into pot business. Watch out for Sophie von Haselberg as Marilyn’s daughter early on in the fabulous four movie.
Marilyn is residing in an attractive house at Key West where Hemingway lived when he wrote two of his books, so often said that the person saying it could be getting paid. She has invited Kitty and Alice to her wedding but she didn’t invite Lou because they haven’t been talking for years. So, to give a sense of how mind-blowing the lie was which only works in embarrassingly calculated film scripts, the two ladies end up not mentioning Marilyn’s name at all; instead, they claim she won a six-toed cat from Hemingway House.
When Lou finds out she’s been tricked, she agrees to stay. However, this does not mean that Marilyn’s betrayal does not hurt her stillness inside. The reasons are clearly indicated after Lou arrives at Key West, so you cannot expect much from what happens later on. She kept bumping into those 20 year olds who had shared the flight with her until by accident she became their slay queen.
The Fabulous Four her wedding preparations were so extravagant that Marilyn did not even notice how odd they sounded for her friends around her. Also because it is one of those things that work in painfully contrived screenplays she does not want to introduce him to any friend until the night before their wedding meaning there will be some predictable twist somewhere within this relationship . But wacky adventures keep them from being serious about anything. Someone stole Lou’s bicycle and then Kegel (pelvic floor) exercise ball given to Marilyn happened to be right beside her as though it had eyes and noticed something wrong! Because she is hallucinating, Lou accidentally unties rope of parasail! Yes, according to planning a joke comedians do on each other behind scenes without informing other people about what is happening or just doing pranks blindly and innocently? It even gets funnier for everybody else seeing one in a strip club when suddenly a male dancer who happens to be associated with one of the ladies in the group twerking on Marilyn turns out to be having a birthmark.
More than 40 producers are listed on The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) for “The Fabulous Four”, many as executive producers, which means nothing. Three of them though were Mullaly, Sarandon and Ralph.There is also another reason other than being unable to find money for any other project apart from a silly comedy just like what only works in uncomfortably predictable movies. Or maybe they wanted a free holiday in Key West? On the other hand, it looks great even if there are too many scenes with hen.
Stars try to make their characters seem more human and appealing through their actions that are sometimes absurdly funny. In some sequences there are very nice singing moments including Michael Bolton(!) duet. We might prefer it as concert film instead of wishing so much about it. Alternatively, as Gene Siskel used to say, four actresses could simply be sitting around and discussing their lives and we would probably enjoy that more than this scenario right now. But here the gags over powerful pot cookies just keep growing old; an older woman’s constant sharing of her life via silly TikToks; two people fighting by tearing off clothing only to reconcile immediately while excessively violent encounter ends up making an unimposing person suddenly appear heroic to some young ones who don’t have any clue who Joan Didion may be either. Then again this movie has no different characteristics from those The Fabulous Four other films featuring senior women since its plot revolves around a strong friendship bond within the main characters’ entire existence..
Nonetheless, it is difficult to imagine if these ladies have a real relationship between them other than cashing in for a movie that is not great but can easily be forgotten.
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