Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas

Ladies Of The 80's: A Divas Christmas (2023) -

This film wasn't made for me, because I don't like reality shows or soaps and I certainly didn't have any nostalgic feelings towards seeing these "Ladies" all together in one film.

Even in the first five minutes there was a lot of plastic on screen because the women (80's Divas) looked like Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn's characters from 'Death Becomes Her' (1992) AFTER they'd died and Ernest (Bruce Willis) had tried to fix them up with formaldehyde and so on. And they all had to talk through their teeth and noses because they were stretched too much, yet still somehow looked a bit chubby from being plumped up so much.

Of course I realised it's not all about looks, but it definitely said something about the characters they were cast to play and possibly about why they were cast and who they were as real life people too.

Even the men seemed quite fake.

The young love story that was obviously supposed to happen didn't interest me at all either. Alex (Travis Burns) clearly loved himself and Taylor Ann Thompson as Nell seemed really incompatible with him.

After the first advert break, when the Christmas soap reunion episode that they were supposed to be filming didn't seem to be moving forward very far, I realised that the chances of this being the typically Christmassy, warm and loving seasonal film that I like was slim.

Also I'm really not in to the catty, backstabbing, Diva thing. So I turned it off for something more attuned to my tastes.

I didn't watch the soaps that these ladies were in and wouldn't care if I had. The world needs more reality, not reality TV shows, which are the fakest things ever.

Unscored as Unfinished.