I’m surprised/disappointed AV Club didn’t do a review or other coverage of this movie when it came out. I loved it but would’ve had no idea it was playing if I hadn’t seen a trailer for it in theaters a couple months ago.
I saw this earlier today and freaking loved it. It was the best time I’ve had at the movies in a long time. Came here to find a review so I could talk about it with people, and frankly I’m not even kind of surprised this site didn’t review it. The way it’s being run now is a fucking shit show.
Yeah I wonder what happened there. AVC didn’t get invited to the screening so they’re not writing about it at all? Saloni Gajjar has highlighted Desi/South Asian media here before but seems to do more in the TV realm. I do think the movie’s success has suffered from a lack of marketing though. I really hope it finds a following because it was a strong first feature that paid homage to other genres/movies but built on it with a unique voice and style. And was just so fucking fun and funny. People were tripping over themselves about M3GAN “bringing back fun” at the movies but Polite Society lived up to its potential better imo. Between this and Lady Parts, Nida Manzoor and her casting director(s?) deserve props for finding actors with such excellent comedic timing that meshes so perfectly with her writing.Unfortunately you’re stuck with only me here (plus one other person I saw talking about it in the comments of last weekend’s box office list) but I’d be happy to go on and on because I enjoyed the movie so much.
I saw it this weekend, and also loved it. Every role was perfectly cast, but especially Kansara: she had to walk a very fine line for anything to work, and she absolutely nailed it.
Right?! She was perfect. Over the top enough to match the heightened tone of the fight scenes and evil plot, but not so much that the heartfelt moments didn’t feel out of place. And also appropriately overdramatic in the way a teen would be without being annoying. I especially enjoyed her grumbling about doctors and her sister’s cardigan wearing.The friend who went in disguise as a man and pretended to be her sister to throw off the mob was the other comedic standout to me.
Agreed on the friend and the locker room scene: my group was all cackling for that. I think my favorite single moment was when she came home from the manicure scene / basement discovery, and her Mom mentioned the “facility” and told her to drop it. That frozen wild-eyed pause before she agreed: it really captured the crisis she was in and was also somehow hilarious. Really great. So glad other people enjoyed it – our theater was pretty much empty on a Saturday evening showing.
Hopefully it ends up somewhere good for streaming. Universal has distribution rights and it would be shame if it just got shunted off to Peacock only. I dunno if I can convince people to get Peacock for it lol.
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I’m surprised/disappointed AV Club didn’t do a review or other coverage of this movie when it came out. I loved it but would’ve had no idea it was playing if I hadn’t seen a trailer for it in theaters a couple months ago.
I saw this earlier today and freaking loved it. It was the best time I’ve had at the movies in a long time. Came here to find a review so I could talk about it with people, and frankly I’m not even kind of surprised this site didn’t review it. The way it’s being run now is a fucking shit show.
Yeah I wonder what happened there. AVC didn’t get invited to the screening so they’re not writing about it at all? Saloni Gajjar has highlighted Desi/South Asian media here before but seems to do more in the TV realm. I do think the movie’s success has suffered from a lack of marketing though. I really hope it finds a following because it was a strong first feature that paid homage to other genres/movies but built on it with a unique voice and style. And was just so fucking fun and funny. People were tripping over themselves about M3GAN “bringing back fun” at the movies but Polite Society lived up to its potential better imo. Between this and Lady Parts, Nida Manzoor and her casting director(s?) deserve props for finding actors with such excellent comedic timing that meshes so perfectly with her writing.Unfortunately you’re stuck with only me here (plus one other person I saw talking about it in the comments of last weekend’s box office list) but I’d be happy to go on and on because I enjoyed the movie so much.
I saw it this weekend, and also loved it. Every role was perfectly cast, but especially Kansara: she had to walk a very fine line for anything to work, and she absolutely nailed it.
Right?! She was perfect. Over the top enough to match the heightened tone of the fight scenes and evil plot, but not so much that the heartfelt moments didn’t feel out of place. And also appropriately overdramatic in the way a teen would be without being annoying. I especially enjoyed her grumbling about doctors and her sister’s cardigan wearing.The friend who went in disguise as a man and pretended to be her sister to throw off the mob was the other comedic standout to me.
Agreed on the friend and the locker room scene: my group was all cackling for that.
I think my favorite single moment was when she came home from the manicure scene / basement discovery, and her Mom mentioned the “facility” and told her to drop it. That frozen wild-eyed pause before she agreed: it really captured the crisis she was in and was also somehow hilarious. Really great. So glad other people enjoyed it – our theater was pretty much empty on a Saturday evening showing.
Hopefully it ends up somewhere good for streaming. Universal has distribution rights and it would be shame if it just got shunted off to Peacock only. I dunno if I can convince people to get Peacock for it lol.