Swing and a cringy miss

Rating: 1/10 (24 January 2018)

Doesn't work as a comedy. You can't expect me to laugh every time someone says a bad word. I'm not ten. Some of the jokes were so cringy i had to walk out of the cinemas. As a drama, the characters aren't fleshed out enough to sell it. Character developmemy is abandoned at the drop of a hat to get a cheap laugh or to propel the plot. This movie leans on the dead girl as a character motivation but we don't learn anything about her except that she fought with her mom that one time. Where the movie meant to out in quirks the result was clumsy cartoonish stereotypes that announced yhemselves as edgy while being old and tired as Dixons mom. The only character i enjoyed watching was Mildreds son - the actor used subtlety and the result was a believable and engaging character.
The movie nodded to several issues of the day including rape in the catholic church and treatment of black people by police, but offers no more than lip service to them. And crimes have no consequence in Missouri apparently.
Also don't just pair off the only two young black people in the movie. They're not a pair of socks. They don't have to get together. Jesus.