The Jane Austen Book Club.

It was 8:30 at the Favourite Son household, it was coffee time, and I had put three sugars in The Girlfriend's cuppa instead of her usual two. Normally, this would result in her beating the bare soles of my feet with extra dry droe wors, but on this occasion she was in a PARTICULARLY foul mood, and decided to punish me accordingly.


Chicks. In A Flick.

So it came to pass then, that I found myself at the cinema watching The Jane Austen Book Club, a bonafide chick flick if ever there was one.

Just so we're clear, the definition of a chick flick is the following: Any film which does not contain violence and strong language, does not contain gratuitous sex, does not contain computer generated special effects but DOES star the actor Mark Ruffalo or the guy from Grey's Anatomy.

That is a chick flick.

From what I understood, the basic plot revolves around the following - Six women, tired of being messed around by the disappointing men in their life, decide to start a book club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. They then embark on a journey of discovery, realising the parallels that their relationships have with the novels they are reading.

It stars Maggie Grace, who was the hot chick from Lost, before she got killed.

I'm not going to lie - I DID get into this film and ended up enjoying it. Although the movie seemed to suggest that most men are unsophisticated Neanderthals, I found myself smiling and giggling away with all the quirky little jokes and bits of humour where one least expects it.

It's a movie you might take your mom to go and watch, probably your girlfriend too. I wouldn't take both of them together though, as they will probably gang up on you afterward and accuse you of being an unsophisticated Neanderthal.

Give it a watch sometime.



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