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

I love Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in pretty much every movie I've seen them in. Unfortunately they end up being the only likeable characters in the movie. With the exception of Joy's ex husband who redeems himself by being her friend when she needs someone who isn't trying to stab her in the back.

None of her family members are at all likeable. The movie shows her and Peggy as children and they seem to get a long fine, but then suddenly as adults Peggy has nothing but negative things to say about Joy, and seems to be constantly waiting for her to fail. She acts like a jealous child, and not at all like a supportive family member.

Joys' father is no better. I love DeNiro, but I detest Joy's father. He is quick to jump on the band wagon to stab her in the back, right along with more or less everyone else in this film. Over all the movie was good, as in the story line was well done, and the cast was great, but I hated pretty much everybody in this movie, especially Isabella Rosselini's character.

I'm also not sure why they bothered casting anybody for Joy's son as he is on screen for all of 3 minutes, and then conveniently forgotten as she totes her daughter all over the place with her.