[Eastwood] displays his strong suits: music, drama and evocative cinematography.

A scattered, haphazard, thoroughly confused film that can't figure out if it's meant to be a winningly cutesy musical or a gritty narrative about life in crime-ridden 1950s New Jersey.

The combination of... [Woody Allen & Clint Eastwood] has resulted in a Broadway adaptation that hums with vigour, sings with the capricious unpredictability of fate and fame, and does firm and lasting justice to the legacy of that vintage studio logo.

'Jersey Boys' is probably exactly the entertainment your grandma is looking for but may prove tiring for all once it snails over the two hour mark.