Violet & Daisy (2011)

Violet u0026 Daisy: Directed by Geoffrey Fletcher. With Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, James Gandolfini, Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan.

“I had great expectations for this movie. I mean, how could you miss with the great James Gandolfini and wonderful Saoirse Ronan as headliners (and Alexis Bledel is certainly eyeworthy), and yet the first time through this film I did not enjoy the experience. Then it dawned on me, well, duh, this film is intended to be a Tarantino parody, and it went up several stars in my estimation. Of course, making a parody of a QT film is problematic, because Quentin films are already parodies of other genres such as kung fu, grindhouse, and noir. And so, in a sense, the filmmaker is making a parody of a parody. I mean, Saoirse playing patty-cakes with Danny Trejo? The scene is totally Quentinesque to a ludicrous extreme. And thatu0026#39;s parody.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOther motifs that echo and exaggerate Tarantinou0026#39;s style include the implausible violence sequences that can only exist in some alternate film universe (think Black Mamba single-handedly wiping out a small army of yakuza in u0026quot;Kill Bill,u0026quot;) and the interminable gabfest that fills out a QT script (these people love to talk and talk and talk)… And so, as a parody of a parody, and for its very impressive cast, this film is worth an amused watch.”