Once in a while, a movie inspires nothing more than complete apathy. Backseat is such a lackluster work.
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04/18/08
Backseat (2008)
8 %
Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 1 Rotten:11 Average Rating: 3.9/10
Synopsis: Although Ben (Rob Bogue) and Colton (screenwriter Josh Alexander) are all grown up, they still have some maturing to do. The two New Yorkers exit the city for a road trip to Montreal with a dual purpose: meet actor Donald Sutherland and transport a rather large quantity of drugs across the... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Rob Bogue, Josh Alexander, Aubrey Dollar, Will Janowitz, Mark Rosenthal
Director: Bruce van Dusen
Screenwriter: Josh Alexander
Producer: Terry Leonard, Josh Alexander
Composer: B.C. Smith
Screenwriter: Josh Alexander
Producer: Terry Leonard, Josh Alexander
Composer: B.C. Smith
Reviews
1 - 12 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Backseat satisfies itself with small observations and minor breakthroughs of self-awareness.
04/17/08
Alexander's script considers context anathema, leaving us to wonder, among other puzzlers, why these two jerks are friends to begin with – and, perhaps, on what bad breakup or neglected childhood one may blame the film's dispiriting misanthropy.
04/11/08
A road movie that runs out of gas almost immediately after it gets started, Backseat is the sort of quirky indie feature that impresses at festivals but feels wan when experienced under real cinematic conditions.
04/09/08
Top Critic
To be sure, slapstick misadventures ensue, but there’s a sweetness and vulnerability beneath the surface of the boys’ sometimes-blue bantering.
04/04/08
Anyone who's spent a lot of time at independent-film festivals will feel a familiar sinking feeling within the first 10 minutes of Backseat.
04/03/08
Culturally falling somewhere between Sideways and Dumb and Dumber, this low-rent road movie similarly rides on principles of audience identification, largely minus competent helming, thesping or scripting.
03/31/08
Top Critic
The flailing, protagonists of Backseat, while not exactly 40-year-old virgins, can have avoided that fate only by the tender mercies of women with low expectations.
03/28/08
Top Critic
The list of transgressions in Bruce Van Dusen’s stalled road-trip flick is miles long: dialogue chocked with bumper-sticker platitudes, self-consciously quirky characters, gratuitous gunplay and a soundtrack top-heavy with achingly bad dorm-rock.
03/27/08
Bruce Van Dusen's 2005 comedy plots a meandering course due north without locating a word of truth.
03/25/08
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