

The plot dead-ends into an overextended outdoor fight sequence, but for almost an hour, the film gets the visual and aural texture of 1980s B-movies just right, while adding a layer of self-awareness.” Judging by the new trailer, Turbo Kid is totally strange and wonderful, almost like a pop-culture-reference-packed, more tongue-in-cheek, but equally violent version of Mad Max: Fury Road.ĭirector: Anouk Whissell, Francois Simard, Yoann-Karl Whissell Turbo Kid premiered to mostly positive reviews at Sundance-our own Noel Murray described it as follows: “A pastiche of 1980s VHS favorites, starring Munro Chambers as a BMX-riding teen who travels with an air-headed android girl through the decimated future-Earth of 1997(!), using his blaster-bracelet to ward off a band of marauders led by Michael Ironside. The entire trailer in one line of dialogue: *The sound of a desperate cat gnawing on a refrigerator shelf* Screenwriter: Ken Daurio, Brian Lynch, Cinco PaulĬast: Louis C.K., Jenny Slate, Kevin Hart, Eric Stonestreet, Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell C.K. and Slate’s characters, two dogs named Max and Gidget, respectively, spend their time doing “big, big stuff” like “sit here and wait for Katie to come back.” Clairvoyant and murderous animals aside, this looks adorable.

lending his husky pipes to one of several pets who do crazy-fun shit while their owners are away at work, like eat entire turkeys, run about with pillows over their faces, head-bang to metal, and use kitchen appliances as back massagers.

(Cats know too much dogs aren’t morally opposed to eating your face while you’re sleeping.) (Rachel’s views do not necessarily reflect those of the rest of the pet-loving Dissolve staff. and/or Jenny Slate is involved in, even if it’s about cats and dogs, which I am not-*braces for impact*- particularly a fan of.
