{"id":95621,"date":"2024-02-21T18:59:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T18:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/?p=2039286"},"modified":"2024-02-21T18:59:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T18:59:30","slug":"drive-away-dolls-ethan-coen-goes-solo-and-pathetically-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/21\/drive-away-dolls-ethan-coen-goes-solo-and-pathetically-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Drive-Away Dolls\u2019 \u2013 Ethan Coen Goes Solo (And Pathetically Woke)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quentin Tarantino\u2019s “Reservoir Dogs” inspired a flood of flashy copy-cats.<\/strong><\/p>\n

His imitators aped his blend of hot action and cool banter. Suffice it to say few could come close to the real deal.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s being generous.<\/p>\n

\u201cDrive-Away Dolls\u201d plays like a facsimile of a Coen brothers romp. Quirky dialogue. Spastic action. Southern twang talk. It\u2019s just as shallow, if not worse than the weakest Tarantino clones.<\/p>\n

Now comes the shocking part. Ethan Coen co-wrote and directed this monumental misfire.<\/p>\n

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Jamie and Marian (Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan) couldn\u2019t be more different. Jamie is the ultimate hedonist, seeking 24\/7 pleasure from an endless string of female partners). Marian is more reserved, preferring to read Henry James and wait for the right girl to come along.<\/p>\n

Jamie ignores her friend\u2019s desires and drags her hither and yon for sexual hookups. Along the way they decide to head south to visit Jamie\u2019s Aunt in Tallahassee. To get there, they use a \u201cdrive-along\u201d service which lets them borrow a car.<\/p>\n

A mixup finds the duo transporting a sought-after package of unknown origin. Before long a pair of dim-witted thugs are on the women\u2019s trail.<\/p>\n

\u201cDrive-Away Dolls\u201d wraps in just 84 minutes, but the film feels at least twice that long. It\u2019s chockablock with filler, from \u201860s-style interstitials to interminable scenes of women making out and\/or having sex.<\/p>\n

It’s 2024. There’s nothing novel or shocking about the latter.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s many sex scenes add nothing to the plot or the characters in question. Marian gets not one but two flashbacks of her as a teen discovering her attraction to women.<\/p>\n

Fine. Except we already know she\u2019s a lesbian. She\u2019s not shy about it, just shy about her dating mores. So these scenes add nothing to the story.<\/p>\n

And they have plenty of company.<\/p>\n

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Other sequences make no sense. One character is pulled over by a cop for no reason whatsoever. What’s the charge … Walking While Woman?<\/p>\n

One explanation? We need to make our heroines into … victims.<\/p>\n

Matt Damon (barely) appears in the film as a \u201cfamily values\u201d politician, code for eeee-vil Republican hypocrite. Except he\u2019s on screen for all of five minutes, and the screenplay can\u2019t flesh him out in any manner.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s lazy virtue signaling for an audience eager for vapid, on-screen empowerment.<\/p>\n

Yes, a Coen brother went woke. Sigh.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDolls\u201d is obsessed with sex. Endless scenes feature women engaging in oral sex, swapping makeout partners or otherwise fixated on the subject. A savvy film would hint at all of the above, not repeatedly stop the story cold to linger over these moments.<\/p>\n

The MacGuffin reveal is so dumb it sinks whatever integrity the movie had up until that point. It\u2019s a sign that the filmmakers don\u2019t care about anything above the story\u2019s empowerment shtick.<\/p>\n

It gets worse.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s bumbling goons are bloodthirsty or restrained, all depending on the scene in question. They bicker endlessly and nothing they say is enlightening or amusing. It\u2019s just noise.<\/p>\n

The man behind the thuggery, initially played with promise by Colman Domingo, loses any menace he flashed earlier in the film.<\/p>\n

Need another annoying character who lacks purpose, humor and consistency? Beanie Feldstein plays Jamie\u2019s ex-lover and a police officer. The film slumps whenever she\u2019s on screen, and that\u2019s saying something since the film exists in a perpetual slump.<\/p>\n

On paper, \u201cDrive-Away Dolls\u201d is a raunchy, hilarious caper, the kind that zips by with witty exchanges and toe-curling action. Making the protagonists lesbians adds something new to the formula.<\/p>\n

On screen, the laughs are few, the pacing is sluggish and the characters are uniformly grating.<\/p>\n

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