Where others say it was a movie about nothing at all, I see a big strength to this movie. Let's compare it to Pineapple Express. Both are movies about two stoner best friends. But Pineapple express on its desire to have a plot, has a very meh dumb plot that ends up the movie being almost two hours. Two hours that serve only as a medium to tell jokes and sketches. Nothing wrong with that, that's how comedy movies work. But I thank Augustine Frizzell for making a much shorter movie. Bless her for not trying to find a complex story and making a short movie. We need more short movies!! God bless short movies and I wish there were more.
In fact, this could have easily been 10 or 5 min shorter by giving the male characters less time, you can tell their scenes were kinda added, as this movie was running dangerously close to being considered a featurette . I understand selling a movie less than 60 minutes has been historically difficult, but with the streaming era I hope we start seeing more short movies. I thank short movies.
On the strength of its two leads, I wanted to like this film. They're just fun to watch, and their relationship feels real.
Some way over-the-top moments dragged it down for me, though. Plus I wasn't a fan of any of the soundtrack choices—and most importantly, there's no payoff at the end. (The dream sequence could have at least been script-accurate and had Angela wearing the bikini she said she'd buy day-one, couldn't it?)
It's clearly not a bad film. Never Goin' Back snagged some award nominations at film festivals, and even managed a couple wins. Mostly, I wish the title didn't give away so much. Put it together with the first scene and you already know where things are headed.
I mean, like others said, it's literally about nothing at all, the two leads spend half of the movie in their underwear so that's fun, but yeaaah, that's about it. It's really a waste of time in my opinion, I'm never goin' back to watch this again!
Maia Mitchell and Camila Morrone have good chemistry but other than that this is just a typical slice of life film.
Shout by Cb UppercutBlockedParent2019-01-20T18:14:24Z
This dosen't have your typical movie elements with twists and turns or antagonists, it's just a story between best friends played by Maia Mitchell and Camila Morrone who have great chemistry.