Hey Sherry! Jersey Boys is not as fun as the Broadway version. Ain't that a shame! Still, it's not a bad movie. It's music to my ears.

Rating: 7/10 (15 September 2014)

Big Girls don't cry, and you shouldn't cry, too. While, it's not the best musical movie out there. It's far from the worst musical ever. Director Clint Eastwood really takes the story of musical biography of the Four Seasons from a more playful and brighter entertaining tone of a musical, and made the film much darker like a biographic melodrama. Clint Eastwood really went a different path, digging more into the conflict, leaving audiences were impatiently waiting for the familiar songs. When the songs finally comes, it's really short, or oddly place. While, the movie had a lot of their hit songs; some of the major songs were missing from the film. Good examples are the cover song "I've Got You under My Skin" from Cole Porter, 'Candy Girl', 'Marlena" and others. They also forgot to add a few novelty songs that the Four Seasons did under the band name 'The Wonder Who'. Then there were the hits, they had as the Four Lovers. Where is 'Beggin' and 'Fallen Angel"? I do like that, the movie has cameos songs from other bands such as the Angels, such as 'My Boyfriend's Back'. I do like how the camera crew filmed the music in real-life takes, rather than using pre-recorded synched songs. Still, some of the synching, they did use seen a bit off. Like the musical, the movie is separate by four acts: (In this case, four seasons). The movie focus on the rise, AKA Spring, told by Tommy Devito (Vincent Piazza), the success, AKA Summer, told by Bob Gaudio (Erich Bergen), the tough times, AKA Fall, told by Nick Massi (Michael Lomenda) and last, life after the group AKA Winter as told by Frontman, Frankie Valli. (John Lloyd Young). Far from a mediocre tribute band, the actors were pretty good in their roles. I just wish that John Lloyd Young wasn't the only main cast returning from the Broadway play. It's sad that there isn't any Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard or J. Robert Spencer. That was kinda disappointed. I kinda wanted the same cast of the Tony Award-winning musical of the same name in this film. The story telling is pretty good, and had an alright pace. It can be a bit choppy at times. I do like the 1950's Rashomon style of story-telling, as you don't know whom narration is lying or not. Some critics might hate the film due to the Italian American stereotyping, and overused of language. In fact, the argument could be made that taming the language could have resulted in a PG-13 rating, making it more accessible to families. It seem odd for this movie to be Rated R, when the Broadway musical isn't. Some people, might see this film trying too hard to be a carbon copy of Martin Scorsese's mafia movie style. It doesn't feel like a Clint Eastwood's film, at all. It can easily be mistaken for a Scorsese's film. The movie is pretty accurate to what really happen to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons in real life. Still, there were some historic inaccurate and factual errors on the dates. The film also, take some liberties on the story, like Tommy DeVito being a really bad uncleanly roommate. What isn't depicted in the film wasn't needed like Valli's other daughter, dying at the same time as the one with the drug overdose. I guess for dramatic purposes, Frankie records "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," his first single as a solo artist, months after the death of his daughter in the film rather than years earlier of those two events. I think if they added those events, the movie would had been a little too grim. The movie isn't all depressing. The movie does have some humor. The jokes were mostly hits than misses to the funny bone for me. I do like, how the movie has an inside 'Goodfellas' joke for Joe Pesci (Joey Russo) talking to Tommy Devito. It's really ironic that Joe Pesci end up playing a character named Tommy DeVito, later on his life. It's also nice to see Clint Eastwood appears briefly in the film when a scene from Rawhide (1959-1965) is shown being watched on TV. Christopher Walken was given some really good one liners that only Walken can make it sound funny. Overall: While, it's doesn't feel like a musical. It was a good movie. So, walk like a man, and go see this movie for yourself. It's a movie for all seasons.