Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023)

• Year: 2023
• Released: 12 May 2023
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20768712/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/book_club_the_next_chapter
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/book-club-the-next-chapter
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Comedy
• Runtime: 107 min
• Writer: Bill Holderman, Erin Simms
• Director: Bill Holderman
• Cast: Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen
• Keywords: italy, female friendship, vacation, book club,

	5.7/10
	45/100
	47% – Critics
	85% – Audience

Book Club: The Next Chapter Storyline

Follows the new journey of four best friends as they take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had.

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An unnecessary extra chapter that is more about holidays than really about books.

Book Club: The Next Chapter Is the sequel to the first Book Club movie from 2018. Both films are directed, part written and produced by Bill Holderman.

After the corona pandemic and having read many books because of this, the friends of the book club decide to travel to Italy. They also use this trip as a bachelorette party for Vivian (Jane Fonda) who has been proposed to by her partners. During their journey they experience many pleasant and less pleasant things.

Unfortunately, this sequel quickly comes across as unnecessary, because for a second book club film, little is read or really talked about books. The members of the club go on a vacation alone in this sequel, to admire some culture and fashion styles.

In the beginning, the film also responds to the current situation of the corona pandemic, but does little with this after bringing it up. It just gives the characters an extra reason to want to travel to Italy. During this trip they show beautiful images of famous places and buildings in Italy, but besides showing these things, little is done with them.

The story also remains on a predictable side and remains somewhat the same as many other comedy in which characters take a journey. Thanks to unrealistic or forced moments, the film also loses some of its credible sides and sometimes goes on unnecessarily too long. The movie could have been ten minutes shorter.

The acting is well done by the four actresses who play the friends. They again come across as real friends who have known each other for a long time and are friends with each other. Thanks to the lesser story, they only get little to work with or to do something special with their roles.

Due to the predictable sides, most comedy also has a predictable side. The actresses know how to portray this in appropriate ways in the film, but the final punchline is often not as funny as it could have been.

In the end, this is an unnecessary sequel, which can be fun for fans of the first part, but for a better film, they should also just watch the first part again. In the other place where the story takes place, this film remains somewhat the same as the first film.

Book Club: The Next Chapter

This appears to be a good excuse for four actors, who seem to get on quite well together, to get someone to fund an all expenses paid trip to Italy to make a movie underpinned by the thinnest of plots. That plot sees the group emerging from lockdown when they finally manage to meet for their routine bookclub. It’s at this get-together that “Vivian” (Jane Fonda) announces that she – a lifelong opponent of the institution – is to marry “Arthur” (Don Johnson). “Carol” (Mary Steenbergen) comes up with the idea of a hen trip to Italy and after a bit of scepticism from “Diane” (Diane Keanton) and the timely death of the cat of judge “Sharon” (Candice Bergen) they embark on their trip of a lifetime. What now ensues is a rather predictable and lightweight comedy drama that starts off entertainingly enough but runs out of steam quickly and permanently. The last twenty minutes take us into cheesy territory that really did have me looking around the cinema at the ceiling thinking – “oh, just get on with it”. There are a few fun contributions from Giancarlo Giannini as the rather dishevelled police chief and a few cameos from Andy Garcia, but for the most part this is just four folks having a jolly time whilst those of us sitting down remember (or discover) just how beautiful Venice is. It’s all instantly forgettable stuff, this, but Bergen has her tongue firmly in her cheek and Jane Fonda just seems to look more android the more films she precariously totters through nowadays.

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I had no expectations. They had me at Steenburgen, Fonda, Keaton and Bergen. And Italy.

I have never seen the first film. I figured it wasn’t rocket science and didn’t need to see the first to kind of get the gist.

To my shock and surprise, I found myself smiling nearly this entire film. Laughed out loud several times. Had to suppress some real guffaws.

Was it predictable? Yes, it was. But sometimes you just want to sit in the dark and eat popcorn and watch a movie for nothing more than sheer entertainment value. Was this film entertaining? Absolutely.

Lovely to see Andy Garcia and Don Johnson, no less. And Craig T. Nelson! And Hugh Quarshie, who played Sunda Kastagir opposite Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert in Highlander. That was a nice surprise.

I loved it. There were some real moments in the film about living your life to its fullest in the time that you have left. And when Diane Keaton says to Jane Fonda, (and I paraphrase) “you always were the Little Drummer Boy. You followed your heart”. I got a little teary eyed. I thought about these women on the screen and thought about their film careers, the mountains they had to climb to get cast, to make a place in Hollywood and I thought, Brava, Ladies. Corny? Yes. Feel good? Yes. Go for the entertainment and popcorn and leave charmed.