Drive-Away Dolls

Ethan coen and his awful still self proclaimed lesbian wife are in an open relationship. And joel is married to inclusion rider Frances McDormand...I don't know which brother has it worse off. Now that the Coen brothers legacy is over and they are happy to spin wheels, I guess Ethan's wife finally bullied him into finishing the awful script she supposedly wrote ages ago back when the Coens were too busy making things of actual quality. Frances McDormand self inserting as Lady MacBeth in order to play power fantasies with her BBC bull Denzel Washington at least had an interesting "art imitates life" thing going on with her husband, and that movie had the framework of Shakespeare propping it up from being terrible. As far as this movie goes, save your time and/or money and watch anything from Blood Simple to Buster Scruggs instead.

This movie is one long dick joke, featuring 2 lesbians, written by a 66 year old man who has clearly never heard queer people talk to each other. I went in with an open mind, but genuinely don't know who this movie was made for. The one character with the most dialogue had the least believable accent, and we had no backstory to understand anyone's motivations outside of getting laid in the span of 4 days. There were a lot of shoehorned characters with word salad monologues that were meant to be existential but went nowhere. Beanie feldstein was acting for her life and did a great job. It was set in 1999 but there were 3 70s style montages that just made the movie feel longer.

An Ethan Coen movie and I am a big fan of his earlier work with the Coen Brothers, but I never much liked their farcical comedies and this is yet another one out of that silly comedy genre... The bad: it's not funny. I did not laugh once. THAT matters (to me), because supposedly this is a "comedy". But humour is quite personal, so perhaps others will be roaring with laughter? More bad: It's not thrilling WHATSOEVER. Not for one eenie minie minute is it thrilling. THAT I can guarantee you without a doubf! This looks more like a cheaply produced television or streaming movie than a real feature movie. It lasts only 1 hour and 17 minutes and still I got bored. (A leftover from the Corona era?) What is it then? It's a (failed) silly "comedy". Without ANY true to life characters (AT ALL). Even in a farce like this the characters have to be sympathetic or at least have something going for them that one can relate to, but none of that. Such a pity... I am really a big fan of actress Margaret Qualley. She absolutely shined in several other movies lately, but her performance in this movie is just too plain SILLY, SO much so that her SILLY performance really (!) irritated me from the very start. That's no good... Perhaps only suited for the fans of the earlier (much better) farcical Coen Brother comedies (Brother where art thou for example)? BUT BEWARE: this is nowhere near as good, so you have been warned !!! (3 exlamation marks)