Mandibles
Release date: 2021-05-19
Votes: 574
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy
Two dimwitted friends hatch a money-making scheme after discovering a giant fly in the trunk of a car.
Reviews
Chris Sawin
Quentin Dupieux has always made strange films that usually can’t be categorized as anything other than bizarre. His filmmaking career seems to have culminated with Deerskin, which is his funniest and most coherent film to date. Mandibles feels like a withdrawn version of Dupieux though. There’s a giant fly, but we don’t see enough of her as we’re subjected to two morons trying to get a free pass on life. Its attempts at humor fall flat and it’s impossible to sympathize with or find any sort of entertaining qualities in any of the characters. Mandibles is really only going to be for hardcore fans of Dupieux’s other works. The average lifespan of a female house fly is 25 days, which is about three weeks longer than Mandibles will stay relevant in the public eye. Full review: https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Mandibles-2021-Review-An-Unfunny-and-Aimless-Comedy
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