Drive-Away Dolls

Drive-Away Dolls is sometimes boring, sometimes funny, but it always looks great. Watch out, this film almost spoiled Fight Club for me. The first 30 minutes are really boring, the characters are at a bad spot, everyone dislikes one another to some extent. After that, it's more enjoyble to watch, but the main plotline is predictable. On the other hand the one with the goons is extremely funny. Also, I think the film gets too political, which is not for my taste. Obviously the directing is good, but it has flaws. For example there are a few takes where the acting is just bad. The lighting is gorgeous and the dutch angles are awesome. The editing is creative, but it was too much sometimes. The sound editing is the thing that made the overall editing weird. The cast is incredible, I knew who would be in it, so there was only one surprise, but I won't spoil it for anyone. The acting as I said, is mixed. Drive-Away Dolls isn't a very bad film, because it has a few great jokes and it has amazing cinematography.

Lighten up people! It was meant to be a B Movie and they pulled it off brilliantly!!! Margaret Qualley and Beanie Feldstein pulled it off wonderfully with their performances!!! I would even consider their performances for an Academy Award nom! But we all know comedy performances rarely get noms! I guess you had to be around in the 50's, 60's or 70's to appreciate a great B movie! The only reason I only gave it a 7 is because I rate movies on a scale of I to 10 and anything I rate an 8 or above I consider worthy of an Academy Award nom for best picture. And no, even though I enjoyed it tremendously, it wasn't worthy of an Oscar nom for best picture. I hear this is suppose to be a trilogy. I can't wait for the next two! Who knows, maybe one of them will get that 8 to 10 rating!!!

Margaret Qualley is as pretty as they come, but this movie blows. Predictable and lazy, every thing here has been done before…and a lot better.

Absolute trash! Only watched cause Pedro Pascal was in the trailer! ****SPOILER****SPOILER****SPOILER*** He is only in it for about 3 minutes🙄 I don’t know what type of person could possible enjoy this movie. Maybe people with low brain cells🥴 nobody with a fully developed mental capacity would even smirk at any point while watching this cringey film

This was pure Hollywood SCHLOCK i.e. garbage. I'm judging it NOT on subject matter at all but on it's conceptualization and execution. I'm fairly certain that the makers of this film had modest aspirations: a quirky road trip movie featuring (femmy) lesbians set in a time just before the Internet. That's fine. But the banal, lazy writing, tone-deaf tonal shifts (seeminly either random or politically cringe-worthy) and crass cavalcade of big name Hollywood-ite cameos (to impress the ever-dwindling Hollywood fan-people population?) are just a few of the basic problems. The film conveys a try-hardism for being cool and edgy that is just laughably off. WAY off.

The plot is fun an intentionally grotesque, it could be overall nice if it wasn’t for some really sad script & directing choices. Although, Margaret Qualley’s acting is the worst here. Almost made me left the theater. I’m sorry for all the Texan lesbians out there, you guys deserved better (I’m lesbian).

The Coen Brothers quirks that once were so exciting have become part of the culture’s background noise. Mostly fun but sometimes frustrating to watch.

*Drive-Away Dolls* has all the right ingredients — a quirky, Coen-flavored premise, a stacked cast, and moments of sharp, oddball humor. It *should* be a ride worth remembering, but somewhere along the highway, it runs out of gas. The love story’s as predictable as a GPS route, and the characters never quite shift out of first gear. Sure, it’s fun in bursts and the style’s got that signature charm, but the whole thing feels more like a scenic detour than a destination. I wanted to love this one — I settled for “it’s fine.” Forgettable, but not regrettable. 2.5 stars.

A collaboration between Ethan Coen and his wife Tricia Cooke, Drive-Away Dolls is the story of lesbian friends Jamie (Margaret Qualley) and Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan), who embark on a road trip to deliver a car to Tallahassee, Florida, unaware that they are being followed by criminals who are trying to retrieve contraband from the trunk of the vehicle. It’s an appealing enough story of naïve innocents in over their heads, a sort of hybrid of the Coens’ The Ladykillers and Burn After Reading, with a few solid laughs, some interesting secondary characters, and an implausible but strangely intriguing storyline. Where the movie falters is with the protagonists – Qualley plays an annoying character straight out of The Dukes of Hazzard while Viswanathan’s character seems to be pulled directly from The Big Bang Theory. And not to niggle, but some of the transitions from scene to scene tend to be distracting and pointless. Other than that, it’s passable entertainment and not much more.

That feeling when the film is so impressed with its own humour and so high on its own energy that it completely forgets it’s supposed to have a plot until the 40-minute mark.