Five adolescent females become close because of their love of a well-known boyband. They've become distant as adults. Rachel (Aisling Bea) forms her own group in the hopes of mending the connection when she wins a contest to attend the band's reunion tour in Greece. But can they heal the hurt they experienced as children. This straightforward account of a friendship that is both created and broken has Take That music as its soundtrack. The flashback scenes, in which a group of five young ladies connect over their common obsession with the made-up boyband "The Boys," are where the film excels. It perfectly expresses how music can help you define your identity and make sense of complex and perplexing emotions. It has a fearful undercurrent while being animated and giddy. The finest scene in the entire movie is when Rachel (Lara McDonnell) imagines The Boys singing "Pray" around her as she tries to tune out the din of her parents' disputes. The problem is that same youthful sentiments don't change in the adult moments. The friendship is destroyed by a sad incident, but four of them rejoin 25 years later when Rachel (now Aisling Bea) wins a ticket to Greece to attend The Boys' reunion tour and sees an opportunity to mend past hurts. However, in a strange move, director Coky Giedroyc and writer Tim Firth choose to play it off as a late-reveal mystery and choose not to acknowledge the obvious cause of one of them going missing. A structural and tonal jumble results from that. The holiday is supposed to be a carefree pop party, but it's actually seething with unsaid resentments instead of being a cathartic celebration of life. Characters merrily splashing around a fountain is really strange. The movie struggles to establish its rhythm. Some of the songs, like "Back For Good," which finds the grownups singing to their lost youth, are brilliant, but others feel pasted on and crudely constructed. 'Let It Shine' by Busby Berkeley lacks any narrative coherence. Even if the tone is all over the place, it does end with a loud, shouted "Never Forget." Nevertheless, you will likely forget very fast. Take That has more than enough songs to provide this with a great soundtrack, but the plot to which they are only tangentially connected is poorly written and far darker than the upbeat music calls for.