Greatest Days (2023)

Comedy, Drama, Music /
6.0/10
47/100
75% – Critics
69% – Audience

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Greatest Days Movie Reviews

A cocktail of cringe and cliche

I don’t know why as I’m not even particularly a Take That fan, but I actually had high hopes for this film. I wasn’t expecting it to reach the heights of Mama Mia!, but I thought it might be at least in the same league. Unfortunately it’s just painfully derivative and formulaic, with songs being butchered left right and centre.

The characters are all pretty uninteresting and the acting leaves a lot to be desired. The action is split across two time periods and I will say the younger actors killed it, which is why I’m giving the film at least some stars. It should have put far more focus here.

The story is far too formulaic. Everything that happens is predictable and isn’t overly interesting either. The film also just lacked any sort of middle to it. There was far too much set up and barely any plot in the middle or end of the whole thing.

When the film does go for it and embraces its campness and ludicrousness there are glimpses of what it could have been, but it just tries to be too earnest and emotional. None of this stuff lands, which just bogs the whole thing down.

I’m sure there’s an audience out there and this film will appeal to many, but it didn’t hit the spot for me.

Failed to take off sadly

It had its moments and the highlight was probably I WANT YOU BACK it was the moment when the song and story came together .

There have been some amazing musicals

There have been some amazing jukebox movies

The highlight and the benchmark is undoubtedly MAMMA MIA anything else that doesn’t come close in its story and adaptation is a let down

If you want a bio pic with music you cannot beat BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY and Rocket man failed in its attempt to merge the two together I wonder if there will be a film if ‘we will rock you’ ?

Geoff was a highlight he brought comedy to the script

Sadly this failed to take off on any level it’s not a film you think I want to see that again and tell everyone to see if – it just failed to do what musicals do – it failed yo uplift – the ingredients were there they just weren’t applied in the right quantities

Towards the final 10 minutes it upped a notch or or two but overall it just wasn’t good enough

Disappointing

Pad. A 5/10.

The music of Take That deserves a better story

I know most musicals are contrived and cheesy and provide broad stroke entertainment, and I enjoy a good jukebox musical where you are already familiar with the songs, but with the good ones you don’t notice how cheesy they are because you’re having such a good time. With Greatest Days I was always aware of it’s contrivance as the thinly plotted and poorly scripted story is fabricated just enough to shoe horn in some favourite Take That songs from their back catalogue set to a backdrop of friendship, adolescence, tragedy and sexual awakening.

Based on the original stage musical The Band written by Tim Firth we follow a group of friends, going backwards and forwards in time from their teenage years in the early 90’s to where they are now in their lives, who get together in Athens 25 years after their first concert to attend a reunion show. Aisling Bea is always watchable and does her best with the material and Marc Wootton provides some much needed comic relief but the casting of the 5 female friends never quite come together.

Feeling like a low budget Mamma Mia! (2008) it lacks exuberance, satisfactorily choreographed dance numbers and an overall feel good factor. The problem lay with the treatment of some of the songs. Many have been re-imagined and reworked, too much for my liking, as we get a hint of a song here, and a hint of a song there and it often falls short of giving us spectacularly executed dance routines to some of their most anthemic tunes. It does however finally pick up in the last 10 minutes or so, which is probably how the whole film should have been, but it’s too little too late.

I don’t mind a thinly plotted story if you can believe in it but I didn’t really care enough about the characters or the plot line and the pseudo Take That members who keep springing up known as The Band (or The Boys as is often said in the movie) who exist in Aisling Bea’s head are frankly a rather annoying plot device to get the songs crowbarred into the proceedings. You yearn for the real Take That to appear (and they do in a nice cameo as buskers on board a train) or to enjoy a song in it’s entirety but sadly it takes about 90 minutes to really get going. The sentiment doesn’t always land and neither does some of the wit or camaraderie between the friends that often feels a little forced rather than being naturally charming.

I thought at least half way in I’d be singing along, tapping my feet and having a great time but it just doesn’t take off. Sadly it’s a missed opportunity and it won’t be the greatest day of your life watching this. Personally I enjoyed the earlier jukebox Take That musical Never Forget that was simpler in execution but much more engaging.

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