Film Review – The Country Club

Golf comedies are a rare event, with few filmmakers taking on the challenge of bringing goofiness to the links. Siblings Sophia and Fiona Robert hope to add something to the sports genre with “The Country Club,” which has the basic ingredients for a good time with simple cinema, setting up conflicts among players, adding wacky personalities, and closing with a tournament scenario. Missing from the feature is a sense of life, with the Robert Sisters (Fiona directs and co-scripts with Sophia), skipping opportunities to really energize the endeavor, which is left wide open for “Caddyshack”-style tomfoolery and golfing action. What’s actually in “The Country Club” is a lot of disappointment, finding the picture too permissive with bathroom humor and improvisation, giving the whole shebang an amateurish quality, as though the movie was made on a dare, shot over a long weekend. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com