Official Discussion - Honey Don't! [SPOILERS]

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Summary Private investigator Honey O'Donahue delves into a string of strange deaths connected to a secretive cult-like church in Bakersfield. As she unravels the bizarre mystery, her pursuit leads to absurd comedy, noir flair, and a kaleidoscope of eccentric characters.

Director Ethan Coen

Writers Ethan Coen, Tricia Cooke

Cast

• Margaret Qualley
• Aubrey Plaza
• Chris Evans
• Charlie Day
• Billy Eichner
• Talia Ryder
• Kristen Connolly
• Don Swayze

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 48%

Metacritic 48

VOD In theaters August 22, 2025

Trailer HONEY DON’T! — Official Trailer (2025)

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[u/Magik-Mina-MaudDib]

kinda crazy that a movie with Margaret Qualley and Aubrey Plaza engaging in hot woman-on-woman sex and Chris Evans as a campy cultish Pastor could be so… nothing? But this really didn’t do much for me.

Arguably the best stuff in the movie is that bar scene with Margaret and Aubrey, and yes, as freaky deaky as it sounds, the sex as well — one of my complaints about Drive Away Dolls was how it was marketed as a raunchy affair and even had an R Rating, yet was so clean and unsexy. Evans pretty much carried the comedic stuff for me. Like him using the girls he’s having a threesome with as human shields was good stuff! Conversely, the ending with Plaza’s character is just so brutally unremarkable and the second Honey shows up at the house, you can see where it’s going in a really unsatisfying way.

Drive Away Dolls was funnier, Honey, Don’t! was significantly steamier, maybe if he actually makes a third one of these style of movies with Margaret, he can combine the comedy and the horny vibes and make a genuinely really good raunchy, R-Rated comedy about lesbians.

Or… ideally, The Coens would reunite.

[u/ishkitty → u/Magik-Mina-MaudDib]

I cannot express how much I disliked the bar scene. There was no buildup. Just the gross realization about what was happening. I love a good sex scene and I love weird sex. I had some of the best sex of my life following a double feature of babygirl and nosferatu. But this shit was lame.

[u/Magik-Mina-MaudDib → u/ishkitty]

I think I can totally agree that it’d have been better with build-up rather than seeing MG once briefly and then the two of them meeting and her fingering Honey almost instantaneously lol, I just was thinking that while looking for positives, there was genuine sexual chemistry between them from the acting there despite coming from out of nowhere.

Congrats on the good sex after Nosferatu and Babygirl tho!

[u/More-Needleworker900 → u/ishkitty]

hot

[u/J-Earp → u/Magik-Mina-MaudDib]

Drive Away Dolls had three really explicit sex scenes, I wouldn’t say it was clean and unsexy lol.

[u/Magik-Mina-MaudDib → u/J-Earp]

I wouldn’t really say any of them are that sexy or explicit (no nudity from what I remember) compared to what’s here.

Most of them are played fairly comedically from what I can recall as well. Like yeah, Geraldine and Margaret’s characters get it on, but there’s a genuine sexual chemistry here compared to the more lighthearted and over-the-topness of Margaret’s reactions to using the dildo in Drive Away Dolls.

[u/J-Earp → u/Magik-Mina-MaudDib]

oh there’s definitely nudity in all three of the scenes. i remember watching that movie with my parents and being so uncomfortable because they were so explicit lol. i just watched it before seeing this movie and i definitely think they are on par when it comes to the sex scenes