Turbo Cola

It's 1999 on the eve of Y2K. Austin is a convenience store clerk in Mechanicsville, Michigan. He has come up with a scheme to rob the ATM with his slacker friend Swearsky. He plans to move to NYC to live with Mary Jane who has a scholarship to NYU. Her brother Jimmy is his volatile drug-selling friend.

It's an indie and a Clerks wannabe. The big difference is that I don't like these characters. At most, I find some of them tolerable. I get the Swearsky slacker character. I really don't like the Jimmy character. He's like the creepy bug that is crawling on your skin. I can't get away from him fast enough. I thought maybe the movie would make him have a crush on Austin. At least, that would have been interesting. The lead Austin also has the annoying problem. He's a troubled character. There is a way to make him more appealing, but there is something about the actor's voice that bugs me. Too many of these characters are bugging me which holds back the comedy.

Teenage Y2K heistcomedy where everything look so neat, but where the trouble piles up like a tsunami in the backyard. Its meant to be a comedy, and if youre adaptabel to slang and signals that where used back then youll might find some amusement...

its not the actors that ruins this film, the writers and directors have just lost any sense of eddible laugh out load comedy fantasy, so no slap stick my friends just a lot of '' i saw you'' and ''we see you'' kinda stuff while monsterheisting the minimarts atm-machine for all its worth on the last day on earth mentality being the crankshaft than rolls the steamroller steady going...

no , the actors do a good job, its just nothing new on the plaza, the gas station idea has been used at least 4 times that i can recall the past 4 years, so just a small recommend from the grumpy old man.

The film is based on a short play and you can tell - almost everything onscreen takes place in a small gas station store, the only other scenes take place just outside the small gas station store.

It's not really a comedy and the lines that are clearly supposed to be funny just aren't funny. If I were feeling generous, I'd say it has the feel of 'Clerks' to it, but it's nowhere near as accomplished as that film.

The USP here is that everything takes place in the hours leading up to midnight on Millennium NYE. The build up and heist plotting is actually really well done but the remaining 1hr 15m of the film never really lives up to it.

The lead performance is pretty good (the rest of the cast less so) but you very much get the feeling you're watching actors act, rather than any of it coming across natural or believable.

I've also read comments about how it 'accurately recreats the 1999 era', when the reality is that it's just a few older brands on the store shelves and some clothes (much of which is identical to what people wear today in any case).

Not entirely sure how anyone would rate this 10/10 when it literally defines the term 'distinctly average'. Is it worth watching? Just about. My attention drifted numerous times but I did make it to the end.

First I do have a bit of bias for liking this movie cause some good friends were involved in the sound track. That being said I will give my best uncolored review.

This film was very entertaining. The characters were fun and relateable. I will say it was a bit predictable but that didn't really take away from it I think. It felt genuine and I think the lead performance was especially good. The look of the movie was very well done they really captured the essence of a crusty gas station. Last thing I will say is that I loved the ending.

I liked this film a lot. As a filmmaker, myself, I can appreciate what was accomplished here. I found the story and setting charming as 1999 was a memorable time for me, even though I was well out of high school by then. I enjoyed the characters, the director's style and thought it was well produced and well shot. Austin and Swearsky were my favorite, but the rest of the cast did a great job as well. A fun watch!