Honey Don’t! ★★★☆☆

Feels a bit more leering than Drive Away Dolls. Funny moment to moment but fails to sell the shaggy dog story with any kind of a punchline. The weird faux-period aspect of it is fascinating and I don’t know what they were going for with it. I didn’t even really notice people using smartphones when everything else was screaming retro. It took the MAGA sticker with the faux-period logo, a logo that I don’t think is actually used by anyone and was presumably designed for this film, to shock me into noticing the contradictions. In contrast the logo of the church felt like a more modern intrusion into the aesthetics of the film. I guess it’s one of those rundown cities that’s been left behind and slowly rotting away without hope of renewal, being preyed on by forces promising false hope. But it’s not like the film develops that idea much either.