Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas

These ladies are so sweet and there is great chemistry between them all. The tone and the sets are very sumptious and Christmassy too and it is good to see these actresses again after first seeing them back in the 1980s. I just wish they had all left their faces alone. They have all had far too much work done and the tooth veneers get in the way....the words are not pronounced properly. Linda Evans looks the best & the most natural. However, they all seem to have had fun making the film. It would have been great seeing naturally older women but it seems that is unforgivable in the States! Shame.

This movie held me absolutely spellbound! Certainly not because it was great acting or a great plot, because of how young Donna Mills looks. The woman is 84 years old!!! It has me seriously questioning if she was digitally enhanced in the film. She looked very natural and like "herself." Someone in another review felt that Linda Gray looked the best. I'm afraid I have to disagree with that assessment. While I agree Linda has aged gracefully, Donna looks incredible. Just to clarify, I am a 61 year old straight woman. I'm saying this because I am in awe, not because I am attracted to her. Which FYI,, is the same age as Nicolette. I think Donna looks younger than all of them, Nicolette included. Donna and Linda are the oldest, both born in 1940. Lonnie is next, born in 1945. Then Morgan, 1950. To sum it up, they all looked really good. After all, it has been 40 years since they were in their If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. They were beautiful young women, why wouldn't they turn out to be beautiful old women( compared to their peer group, of course)?

Ladies Of The 80's: A Divas Christmas (2023) -

This film wasn't made for me, because I don't like reality shows or soaps and I certainly didn't have any nostalgic feelings towards seeing these "Ladies" all together in one film.

Even in the first five minutes there was a lot of plastic on screen because the women (80's Divas) looked like Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn's characters from 'Death Becomes Her' (1992) AFTER they'd died and Ernest (Bruce Willis) had tried to fix them up with formaldehyde and so on. And they all had to talk through their teeth and noses because they were stretched too much, yet still somehow looked a bit chubby from being plumped up so much.

Of course I realised it's not all about looks, but it definitely said something about the characters they were cast to play and possibly about why they were cast and who they were as real life people too.

Even the men seemed quite fake.

The young love story that was obviously supposed to happen didn't interest me at all either. Alex (Travis Burns) clearly loved himself and Taylor Ann Thompson as Nell seemed really incompatible with him.

After the first advert break, when the Christmas soap reunion episode that they were supposed to be filming didn't seem to be moving forward very far, I realised that the chances of this being the typically Christmassy, warm and loving seasonal film that I like was slim.

Also I'm really not in to the catty, backstabbing, Diva thing. So I turned it off for something more attuned to my tastes.

I didn't watch the soaps that these ladies were in and wouldn't care if I had. The world needs more reality, not reality TV shows, which are the fakest things ever.

Unscored as Unfinished.

Shindler's List this movie is not. Hell, it's not even Devil Wears Prada but it's fun and nostalgic with some sharp pop culture writing zings. I grew up watching all these ladies on TV and VCR'd everyone one of their shows when I couldn't watch it live. Linda Gray was always my fav actress and it was great to see her on TV again having fun. I read a couple of reviews that stated this could be an annual reunion movie with additional diva actresses brought in for new storylines. A future storyline could be a Diva Challenge Special with the ladies of The Great Lakes competing against another rival soap from the 80's The High Hills with Joan Collins, Susan Sullivan, Joan Van Ark, Michelle Lee and Charlene Tilton. Let's see more of these ladies Lifetime.

What can I say except Ladies of the 80s is wasted potential. It has all the right ingredients, mega famous Soap stars from the 80s coming back together in the same vein of These Old Broads from 2001 but Those Broads did it better.

Ladies Of The 80s misses the mark on the writing and directing. Instead of creating something iconic, which it could have, it created something with mediocre writing and even less when it came to the acting.

While I love seeing these ladies again, I wish someone had put more thought into this since they deserved so much more than what they got.

The sub plot of the director and assistant was even more annoying since it was clearly forced sexual tension that was completely un-erotic.

Anyway, I can't hate on it too much since I watched the entire thing but my nostalgia is the only reason I didn't give this a lower store.