Review of Joy (2015) by Bhbarry — 05 Jan 2016

"Joy" stars Jennifer Lawrence, Diane Ladd, Robert De Niro, Virginia Madsen, Edgar Ramirez, Isabella Rossellini and Bradley Cooper. The film was directed by David O. Russell and co-written by Mr. Russell and Annie Mumolo. This is the loosely based story of Joy Mangano, the lady who went from rags to riches via the QVC Network after demonstrating and selling her new invention, a mop that never touches your hands and whose head can be washed in a washing machine. The story is really quite predictable with the other actors playing caricatures in a modern Cinderella tale with a heroine who mops the floor and a stepsister who is her arch rival.

The dialogue is trite and leaves little to the imagination save the gaps that the viewer must fill in because some of the scenes and scenarios just don’t make much sense. If you delete the "J" from the title of the film you end up with the word "oy" and that’s the word I used after I viewed it. I give the film a rating of 6 and suggest that the ticket price would be better spent on buying the mop featured in the story.