Jersey Boys (2014)
Rated R
Starring Vincent Piazza, John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Michael Lomenda, Christopher Walken,
Directed by Clint Eastwood
The Story:
Growing up in Jersey, pals Tommy DeVito (Piazza), and Nick Massi (Lomenda) recruit a great singer named Frankie Valli (Young) to join their group. As they get more known in the area, musician and writer Bob Gaudio (Bergen) joins the group and thus were born The Four Seasons.
This is their story.
Odds are good that if you've heard any rock/pop music in your life, you've heard at least one of the songs by the Four Seasons, whether you knew it or not.
And while this may be a musical, only in the broadest of senses as the songs usually play out as an actual scene where they might be giving a concert or performing a gig or something along those lines.
So if musicals scare you where people randomly break out into song and dance numbers, you'll be perfectly safe here.
At least until the credits roll, then Eastwood has the entire cast do a traditional song and dance number, but it's fun and a nice capper to the end of the film, and is arguably the Four Seasons best known number.
The narrative for the story comes from each of the members as they will break the fourth wall and address the audience for a minute to get the story started. It's an effective device and used minimally so there is little distraction from the story.
All in all, a pretty good tale that makes for an entertaining viewing.
Final Grade: B
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