It was a great idea to adapt the true story of four older female fans of the New England Patriots into a movie. It was a great idea to cast Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, and Sally Field as the Tom Brady-loving gals. But that’s where the great ideas stopped. Instead of four veteran film actors at the top of their game playing full-bodied elderly characters who bond over football, we get a paint-by-numbers script with grandma jokes (they’re dad jokes but creakier).
On their 2017 journey to Houston, for what they believe will be their hero’s last Super Bowl (he was nearly 40 then), the feisty quartet mistakenly take laced gummies.