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10/18/08
Backseat (2008)
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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... [More]
Starring: Rob Bogue, Josh Alexander, Aubrey Dollar, Will Janowitz
Director: Bruce Van Busen, Bruce van Dusen
Reviews for Backseat
1 - 13 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Once in a while, a movie inspires nothing more than complete apathy. Backseat is such a lackluster work.
04/18/08
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
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 CriticSporadically funny, micro-budgeted indie comedy.
03/28/08
Just a series of character skits, some charming and others tedious.
03/28/08
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 CriticThe 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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