“Not honey!” Review: Chris Evans, Margaret Quiety and Aubrey Plaza are wild in lusty crime comedy

Do you want something sexy, stupid and scandalous? Then you will appreciate Not honey! The latest cooperation between married filmmakers Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke. The couple who has been working together since 1990 Coen Bros film Miller's intersection, the audience brought the crazy mayhem of Driving dolls only last year. Now you are back, with another story of lesbians that are involved in a strange crime.

Driving dolls Star Margaret Qualley combines with Coen and Cooke and plays another title character. Honey O'Donahue is a private eye that keeps your cards near her chest. When a new customer appears dead in a suspicious car accident, she jokes to the crumpled police detective (Charlie Day, perfectly as an easy -going dope), but does not give up a single observation. Unspoken, this is your secret to solve.

In the course of this murder examination, she will cross paths with a moped riding femme femme fatale (Lera Abova), a grumpy sapphian cop (Aubrey Plaza) and an ultravally cult leader (Chris Evans). It is a wild trip with twists, sex and murder!

Margaret Qualley is dynamite in Treasure not!

While this is the second offer in Coen and Cookes proposed lesbian trilogy, it is Treasure not! not Share the same broad comedy energy as its peppy predecessor, Driving dolls. The key to both films is QUALY that indicates the sound.

In the first film, she was a chaotic strange masc with a southern accent that was as thick as molasses and a mighty libido as the sun. The film followed its frenzied energy through speed and plotting and took wild curves with Madcap.

In Treasure not!Present QUALY shakes the loose looseness of her limbs. Her step is confident, but without nonsense, like the fast-speaking ladies of Screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 40s film Noir. Your look-click clip-heeling, pencil skirts or tailor-made flow trousers with decent but never boring shirts reflects these inspirations of the old school. So also their openness; She wears a Katharine Hepburn posture without the middle Atlantic accent. When the police detective mentioned above flirts with her, she says, smoothly like butter: “I like girls.” (On which day answers with a happy violation: “You always say that!”)

Regardless of whether the cool gay aunt of a small army of nieces and nephew, a dirty hint reveals or joins a one-night stand, honey is polite and sharp, but also warm. This temperament distinguishes them from the brisk male detectives who came in front of her, all brag and steels. In addition, their attitude reflects the atmosphere of against Treasure not!'S Setting: Bakersfield, California, a sunny place with a dark appetite.

Treasure not! is a raw and refreshing caper.

The script by Coen and Cooke commits the dark humor and offers happy jokes about dirty sex, cruel death and the general idiot of crooks and fraudsters.

How Coen guides Treasure not!It is tempting to search for comparisons in his joint filmography with his brother Joel. Is Treasure not! more Arizona raise or The big Lebowski? Burn after reading or No country for old men? The risks that overlook the exciting exploration of crime stories that build Coen and Cooke with their trilogy. Your stamp is clear and important here as a co-author, producer and editor of the film.

Yes, Treasure not! Pulls from Film Noir inspiration, as well as several earlier Coen Bros films … and hundreds of other films. But this crispy California environment gives tropics such as the femme fatal or the double cross fresh air. Where Driving dolls excavated in the rich Americana and Queer culture that are found in RoadTrip and lesbian bars, Treasure not! Hangled a less reassured coupling of gnarled characters, sun -calculated and disturbed.

Chris Evans is funny and freed from Disney.

Thank God that Chris Evans' McU -ära is over. Now the actor who has proven to be a sensational bastard Knife out Can be solved with characters that are not role models from a distance.

In Not honey! He plays Reverend Drew, a preacher who leads a community of committed henchmen who fulfills every desire for sex or violence of his twisted heart. Treasure not! Offers a number of popular character actors such as Plaza, Day, Billy Eichner and recognized theater artist Gabby Beans. And they are all games for everything that Cooke and Coen throw their way. Where QUALY plays the heterosexual man to this cluster of crazy clowns, Evans is a ring champion of his own circus.

From the moment he has a strange incorrect smile, there is a thrill of excitement. Evans plays with a cheerful falsehood around punch lines and creates a sharp satire of a certain brand of religious guides, who believes too much in his own bullshit. His physicality is adequately absurd. Regardless of whether he barks naked orders or gives the most hysterical delivery of the word “oui”, which is ever committed to screening, it moves like a cartoon cartoon of an arrogant fool. Revisites to Evans to find a new and fantastic path to continue America's ass.

What is most exciting Treasure not! Maybe what is most frustrating about it is also. Coen and Cooke have built a puzzle with a shape that seems to be vague at the beginning. But when Honey follows the suspicious and confusing clues, this story is anything but what they would expect. And that depends on the final, which certainly divides critics and audiences.

Personally, I enjoyed the final surprise of the film because this story is greater than a film and may even contain an attitude. Instead of the closure, Treasure not! Offers a foretaste of something sweet and wild with the potential for more. And I'm not angry about it.

Treasure not! was assessed by the Cannes Film Festival. It will be opened in the cinemas on August 22nd.