, teasing a line about fate and adventure and how the two align. It’s a sign of what’s to come with the titular group of women whose lives we’ve gotten to know over two films now.
Jane Fonda’s character, Vivian, spent the pandemic holed up with a boyfriend, played by Don Johnson, and the forced time together turns this reluctant romantic’s tryst into a fully fledged relationship. She tells the women over a Zoom call that she’s getting married – for the first time. The four women, rounded out by Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen are thrilled and decide to go to Italy for her bachelorette, a girls trip they’ve been trying to take for nearly 50 years.
– suffers from a generic script. It gives the women rote lines and over-the-top scenarios that distract from what made the first one shine: the women themselves.