Queen Bees

Director Michael Lembeck handles it all with an anonymous efficiency.

It's a film that seems to have been dreamt up by a reverent grandchild who assumed they knew everything there was to know and never thought to ask the grandparent themselves.

An ideal date night or friends' group evening out. Love is love and there's no expiration date. Or, as Curtin's bossy biddy says, tongue planted firmly in cheek, "Eighty is the new 18."

Half a dozen veteran performers do their best to elevate a patchy script in Queen Bees, a gentle romantic comedy set in a retirement community.

A middling comedy that plays like it was underwritten by the Retirement Community Association of America, if there were such a thing.

For all the superficiality and shortcomings of "Queen Bees," the film's biggest draw, and strongest attribute, is its packed ensemble of iconic actors.

It has possibilities baked into it, and little to show for them.

A winning cast weaves a warm dramedy about love amongst the elderly.

Never mind that the film has choppy production values, plays like a paid advertisement for retirement communities, and is so sweet that you may get diabetes from the script. Most senior citizens are going to love it.

Queen Bees manages to touch on some heavy subjects like the inability to continue your independence while at the same time delivers some amusing moments that may even leave you smiling.