Honey Don't! 2025 is a meandering mess by design
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Being a sort of a sequel ( not really a sequel ) to Drive-Away Dolls 2025 Ethan Coen film Honey Don't! is also kind of silly and kind of B-movie-like. And it also stars Margaret Qualley but this time not as lesbian Texas gal, but as a lesbian private detective.
The film opens with Lera Abova's character Chère who we later learn is kind of maybe a lesbian herself. Even though she does sleep with a guy at some point during the movie. Lera Abova is known from the 2019 Luc Besson movie Anna where she plays Anna's lesbian girlfriend. Something I find strange about Lera is that she is obviously a Russian girl born in Russia. But in both Anna and Honey Don't! she plays a french girl. Even in a film by Luc Besson, who is himself french. And she doesn't even speak french. What the fuck?
The lesbian detective played by Qualley meets a lesbian police officer played by Aubrey Plaza who is very strangely fucked up in the head. They become girlfriends. Later ( after, spoiler alert, Qualley's character kills Plaza's character for being a psychopath that abused her teenage niece played by Talia Ryder ) Qualley's lesbian character meets Abova's lesbian character. Which hints that they would have sex. Before the movie ends.
Apart from lesbians, as I already talked about in my review of Drive-Away Dolls there is a little 8 or 9 year old boy who wants to bang his aunt, the lesbian Margaret Qualley character. But Qualley finds legal reasons for why this is impossible. Then we also have a pervert Chris Evans character who has a cult-like church where women need to have sex with him as a ritual. Kind of like all cults. Chris Evans pervert characters also wants to bang Margaret Qualley character, but she finds logic to tell him no. Then we have a Charlie Day police detective character who wants to bang Margaret Qualley character, but she always tells him that she will not do it because she is into girls.
Kale Browne is in it. He appears to be this pedophile creep character at first, and the movie builds a lot of tension about him. He appears to be looking for ways to bang Talia Ryder's character. The niece of Margaret Qualley character. But ends up actually being a father of Margaret Qualley character, that left her alone very long time ago. And is now trying to reconnect. This is some next level dark humor from Ethan Coen.
The film is very sexual in subject matter but it is way more graphic when it comes to violence. The violence is comically over the top. Characters don't simply die. You get a whole sequence of struggle that just goes and goes. Where a lot of bullshit happens, making the violence just too fucked up to take seriously.
Again, directed by one of the Coen Brothers the film is confidently shot. It knows how to build tension and how to sell a joke. Yet in the same time the directing is somewhat minimalist. There is a cool change of aspect ratio in the beginning. The whole opening of the film is shot in wide screen ( adding black bars above and below ) and then the rest of the film is 16:9. Probably the director is once again making fun of editing tricks used in B-movie material.
The plot is a bit strange. It is too unfocused. It feels more like a bunch of slightly interwoven scenarios, all leading to some grandiose punchline. It seems like Ethan didn't want to say anything with the film, but simply wanted to have a lot of fun. And technically that is kind of the point of making a B-movie by design movie.
If you want a psycho-sexual analysis of the film, I did one in the previous review.
Happy Hacking!!!
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