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User Reviews for: Drive-Away Dolls

RG9400
4/10  2 months ago
It pains me to give this movie a negative review, but ultimately, Drive Away Dolls feels like a very disposable movie that isn't even aiming to be more than a bit of fluff. In doing so, it wastes some excellent talent and potential. The movie's storyline, at a high level, follows an odd pair buddy road trip style movie, and both Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan are solid in their roles. The problem is that the movie is trying to be very lowbrow, and a lot of the jokes end up feeling extremely juvenile to a degree where the movie hardly elicited any laughs at all in my full theater. It's as if they get the setup teed up perfectly, but completely fall flat when it comes to the punch lines. You get some of the zany and whimsical characters you'd expect from a Coen movie, and the two men chasing the main characters were a particular highlight. Colman Domingo and Beanie Feldstein are completely wasted. The movie utilizes some transitions that I found fairly clever, and also some transitions that annoyed me a ton. There are some cool ways the movie stitches together movement from one frame to the next. It also devolves into some extremely unnecessary psychedelic sequences at times which didn't make any sense to me as the movie isn't revolving around drugs in any way. These sequences can last for a decent chunk of time which adds up, and for a movie that is only 80 minutes long, that completely superfluous padding feels even more out of place. Maybe this movie was made for some people who just wanted to get high and waste 80 minutes, but then it should have been more upfront about that in its marketing and skipped the theatrical release. Regardless, I feel like had Ethan Coen actually tried to finish this movie properly, he could have made something far better than this half-baked juvenile attempt that wasted such good talent.
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