Greatest Days (2023)
3/10
Greatest Days
27 August 2023
Could it be magic? Take That hoped that their jukebox musical might rival Abba's Mama Mia.

Yet watching this film, it was hard to believe that this was an adaptation of a stage musical. It seemed so half baked and half hearted.

Rachel O'Flynn (Aisling Bea) is a children's nurse working in London. Back as a teenager she and her school friends were mega Take That fans in the small twin of Clitheroe in Lancashire.

When Rachel wins a competition to see Take That perform in a reunion concert in Athens. She invites the same school friends to Athens despite not seeing them for 25 years.

That upsets her boyfriend Jeff (Marc Wootton) who was hoping to accompany her. So far Rachel has been reluctant to marry Jeff despite numerous proposals by him.

Rachel hopes to reconnect with her friends, it looks like something in their past drove them apart.

Greatest Days never connects, The two timelines do not help. The musical numbers are haphazardly staged. With the imaginary boy band popping in and out.

Part of the problem was that it might have been low budget so corners had to be cut. Also the twist never surprises as you know someone is missing in one of the timelines.
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