REVIEW:
And So It Goes is a movie where the title alone shows you the level of effort that was put into this thing. Diane Keaton seems to be on a downward trajectory with movie titles. She and Jack Nicholson (who has been retired for some time now.) Between the two of them we have some of the most forgettable titles, like As Good As It Gets, How Do You Know, Something’s Gotta Give, and now this… the worst of them all. And So It Goes just makes you think, “ok. So it’s another day. So what? Why should I care? What’s special about this?”
And the movie is pretty much constructed with that same level of effort. Michael Douglas plays a well by man who is mean to everyone. Then he finds out he has a long list granddaughter who he reluctantly has to take care of. Everything about this storyline is a cliche.
The one exception is the neighbor, played by Diane Keaton. She’s a woman who has never loved, and is depressed about it. She is a singer at a club who breaks into tears in the middle of songs, when they make her think about how unfulfilling her life has been. That’s kind of a funny gimmick, and it’s also totally ridiculous that clubs would continue to hire her with that kind of track record.
The movie is about how her character and Douglas’ character come to care for this granddaughter. Keaton, who has no relation to the girl, becomes like the grandmother. It’s nice and sweet, but completely predictable and cliched. And to make matters worse, for some strange reason the movie isn’t clear about its ending. Again, such little effort put into this one, it’s a wonder that it isn’t even worse.