Bobby Farrelly directs a coming-of-age comedy road trip with Driver’s Ed.
Sweet is the order of the day in director Bobby Farrelly’s Driver’s Ed. The teen comedy is high on the sugary and sincere and low on the raunchy and gross-out, even when it has the chance.
Love-sick High Schooler Jeremy (Sam Nivola) suspects his girlfriend, who’s away at college, may be slipping away. While taking driver’s ed, Jeremy, the most button-down of kids, makes an unexpected decision… steal the driver’s ed car, along with the three other students (Sophie Telegadis, Mohana Krishnan, and Aidan Laprete) to Chapel Hill, where his girlfriend is. The three-hour road trip turns into an unexpected journey where friendships are made and realities are changed.
The teen comedy has come a long way from Porky’s, Risky Business, The Girl Next Door, and Superbad. The low-stakes movie is not as wild and crazy as one would want from the co-director of Something About Mary, though it does have just the right amount of acidity and sarcasm to make it interesting. Just those expecting something in the vein of those upper-echelon comedies should look elsewhere.
Driver’s Ed has taken the gross out, out of Bobby Farrelly’s gross out comedy. All that’s left is a well-intentioned R-rated coming-of-age comedy. More akin to his recent charmer Champions, the film trades heavily on sincerity and giving us less cringe or gross-out comedy and more sincere low-fi drama.
Driver’s Ed is in select theaters and on demand beginning May 15th
Bobby Farrelly directs a coming-of-age comedy road trip with Driver’s Ed.
Sweet is the order of the day in director Bobby Farrelly’s Driver’s Ed. The teen comedy is high on the sugary and sincere and low on the raunchy and gross-out, even when it has the chance.
Love-sick High Schooler Jeremy (Sam Nivola) suspects his girlfriend, who’s away at college, may be slipping away. While taking driver’s ed, Jeremy, the most button-down of kids, makes an unexpected decision… steal the driver’s ed car, along with the three other students (Sophie Telegadis, Mohana Krishnan, and Aidan Laprete) to Chapel Hill, where his girlfriend is. The three-hour road trip turns into an unexpected journey where friendships are made and realities are changed.
The teen comedy has come a long way from Porky’s, Risky Business, The Girl Next Door, and Superbad. The low-stakes movie is not as wild and crazy as one would want from the co-director of Something About Mary, though it does have just the right amount of acidity and sarcasm to make it interesting. Just those expecting something in the vein of those upper-echelon comedies should look elsewhere.
Driver’s Ed has taken the gross out, out of Bobby Farrelly’s gross out comedy. All that’s left is a well-intentioned R-rated coming-of-age comedy. More akin to his recent charmer Champions, the film trades heavily on sincerity and giving us less cringe or gross-out comedy and more sincere low-fi drama.
Driver’s Ed is in select theaters and on demand beginning May 15th
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