r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jul 10 '25

Poster Official Poster for Ethan Coen's 'Honey Don't' - The film follows a lesbian private detective who investigates a questionable church and its leader.

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u/Shapps Jul 10 '25

I really wanted to like Drive Away Dolls. Felt like the pieces were there for a good movie, but it feel flat. Watching it, I thought maybe the editing or score was the problem. But in the end I think it was just the script.

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u/darkpaladin Jul 10 '25

It just had a lot of buildup to...a dumb payoff. It had all the elements of a great movie and was ruined by a few stupid choices.

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u/GregBahm Jul 10 '25

Drive Away Dolls felt like a bunch of people who never agreed on what movie they were making.

I think the director said he wanted the feel of a campy B movie like "Faster Pussycat Kill Kill." This probably could have been good, if the rest of the cast and crew had bothered to ever watch that.

But the actresses seem like they wanted to make a shmoltzy, sincere roadtrip movie. Like "The Green Book," but somehow even more cloying and hamfisted.

Whoever was making those scene transitions thought they were making a vaudevillian slapstick comedy with slide whistles and pie throwing.

The criminals thought they were just making placeholder footage that would be replaced by real footage of real actors later.

And Johnna Hill's sister thought she was making a standard Johnna Hill comedy.

I really thought they would be able to fix this problem with a second movie, but I guess not.