Silver star

Rating: 6/10 (24 October 2014)

Its rather refreshing these days to see a movie that has not gone through a grading treatment where the screen gets blighted with orange and teal lighting.
Director Clint Eastwood uses light hues which get more colourful as The Four Seasons get more successful and the songs get more bouncier.
This is the screen adaptation of the successful stage musical, although I have not seen the musical to make a comparison.
Eastwood has opted to use the stage cast rather than plump for known screen actors to play the members of the group and this means the actors can go straight into what should be now familiar characters and age appropriately.
John Lloyd Young is mesmerising as Frankie Valli but the adaptation from stage to screen is not wholly successful. The early act was slow to get going and the film was rather long in the middle as it started to drag. The end song of 'What a night' was a hit in the mid 1970s with a different line up of the band. Still if you are a fan of the music of The Four Seasons then this will be an enjoyable film.
If you dislike falsetto then give this film a wide berth.