Jersey Boys

Jersey Boys

Rating 6 out of 10

There have been several movies this summer released with the aim toward the younger crowd.  22 Jump Street comes to mind.  I hated it yet my kids thought it was hilarious.  This movie is aimed toward the older crowd.  In fact when I saw this in the South Florida theater I was the youngest by probably ten years.

Jerseys Boys is a movie based on the long running play based on the life of singer Frankie Valli. This movie starts back in the 1950s before Grease was the word. Growing up in a rough part of New Jersey Valli had a velvet voice that the big mob bosses loved.  While his friends were going to jail he would be protected and kept from harms way.  When he did make it big he finds fame carries a price tag on your family.

Director Clint Eastwood surprisingly takes this movie in a low budget feel direction.  I don't know if he was trying to make it look like the play  He also went with a mostly unknown cast.  Christopher Walken is the only actor I had heard of.

I would say if you know and enjoy songs like Big Girls Don't Cry, Walk Like a Man, My Eyes Adore You and December 1963 you will enjoy this movie.  I saw the play several years ago and thought it was great.  I like the music too.

I was entertained.