The Time of Their Lives

Director Roger Goldby tinkers with important issues around aging, only to steamroll it all with a slipshod script.

A likably lame rattletrap of a road movie that gets what limited spark it has from the “Dynasty” diva’s still-lascivious on-screen charisma.

It’s badly paced, has too many plotlines crammed in and gives Joan’s character one-liners that come off as mean rather than Alexis-sassy.

There’s little chemistry and less comic frisson, thanks in part to the weird seams of pettiness and condescension running through the script.

There is a creeping and depressing awfulness to this sentimental silver-years comedy.