SPOILERS Poorly handled flashbacks, with dubious casting of different aged versions of same character. Comedy? Huh?! Nothing funny about child abuse - even if there is some sympathy for the mother. Nothing very funny about madness either - or spoilt southern women, or a husband who has remained with his wife despite having to sleep in a separate room for the last 30 years. A positive riot.
As others have noted, you keep expecting some kind of revelation at the end. But it never materialises, and you are left feeling somewhat short changed. (For a similar but much worse experience see 'The Ninth Gate'). I thought at the least that the boy lost in the war would turn up at some point to explain the mother's mental episode.
There is no explanation for the mumbojumbo behind the Ya-Ya of the title, and certainly no reasonable explanation why four child hood friends should after 50 years remain livng in close enough proximity to be able to go driving every where together. And are we also expected to believe that a boyfriend of some 7 years has yet to meet the parents? Yeah, right.
Maggie Smith can act - but sadly a Southern accent is for her 'a talent too far'. The Oxygen mask I can only assume was a device designed to explain or hide her lapses into English.
In general - a disappointment.
As others have noted, you keep expecting some kind of revelation at the end. But it never materialises, and you are left feeling somewhat short changed. (For a similar but much worse experience see 'The Ninth Gate'). I thought at the least that the boy lost in the war would turn up at some point to explain the mother's mental episode.
There is no explanation for the mumbojumbo behind the Ya-Ya of the title, and certainly no reasonable explanation why four child hood friends should after 50 years remain livng in close enough proximity to be able to go driving every where together. And are we also expected to believe that a boyfriend of some 7 years has yet to meet the parents? Yeah, right.
Maggie Smith can act - but sadly a Southern accent is for her 'a talent too far'. The Oxygen mask I can only assume was a device designed to explain or hide her lapses into English.
In general - a disappointment.