Baby Driver Reviews Metacritic. After releasing a film every three years since 2. Edgar Wrights latest effort comes after a four year gap due to his flirtations with Ant Man. The Muppets is the Muppets seventh feature film, released in 2011. The script was written by. Baby Driver, an action film about a man named Baby Ansel Elgort who is a getaway driver, is perhaps Wrights most commercially appealing film. With the box office to match and the film shaping up to a box office surprise to many this summer, it seems as though Wright has finally found some mainstream acceptance, at least in America. As with many directors who finally escape niche audiences and finally find themselves receiving applauds from the general public without having to resort to their work being a cult classic, Wright has unfortunately compromised some of the frenetic fun of his early work. Though Baby Driver is nonetheless a quirky, funny, and often times surreal film, it winds up feeling wholly underwhelming with Wright ditching what made his earlier films work so well characters. Though Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz were both action comedies, they nonetheless had great central characters. The supporting cast got the same treatment in those action films and this was especially true in his other works, Scott Pilgrim vs. World and The Worlds End. Unfortunately, this latest work gives very little for any character. Baby, a music loving kid with tinnitus and who is in love with Debora Lily James, is given very little depth even as the star. Beyond having a black foster dad and dead parents, it is hard to imagine what was supposed to be learned about the kid. He does not really grow and is never really given room to explore any bit of him beyond brief flashbacks to the car crash that gave him tinnitus and killed his parents along with a cassette tape that has a recording of his mom Sky Ferreira singing. Too often, Wright seems to rely upon old school musical classics as a shortcut to actually write dialogue between characters or characters backstories. It is often excusable when the supporting cast is lightly developed or if a film fails to develop many characters beyond narrative cliches when there is not a single protagonist. Unfortunately, beyond being a good kid with a bad past that has led to him being bound to crime boss Doc Kevin Spacey as a getaway driver, Baby gets no depth or nuance. As a result, it is easy to just roll your eyes with how pale he winds up being written. This same problem is found with the entirety of the supporting cast. Mortadelo Y Filemon Contra Jimmy El Cachondo Free Online Movie there. His girlfriend, Debora, is shown as being nothing more than idyllic yes man who does whatever Baby tells her to do. Leave work now Sure. Travel the country right now with a guy you barely know Sure. Let this guy just follow you home Of course. She has no ideas of her own. No volition and, crucially, no motivation. Wright, likely, keeps it this way to make it easier to turn her into a stone cold badass at the end with her taking on Buddy Jon Hamm and trying to outrun the cops. The Great Music Caper Movie Trailers' title='The Great Music Caper Movie Trailers' />Neither are convincing moments with how she is set up as nothing more than a young girl trying to make a living at a dead end job. Wright treats her as arm candy, lets her have a moment towards the end, and then reassures the audience she is nothing more than a dream girl from a song and relegates her to being nothing more than cute for trying to save Baby, but lets let the men handle this one, ehFor Doc, he suffers from the same issue, but in reverse. Though he does seem to always like Baby, his turn from a hard nosed criminal who will never let go of Baby to a soft and sentimental man who sacrifices himself to save his beloved driver is borderline comical. The film may be an action comedy, but its absurd and ludicrous suggestion that Debora could go from quiet waitress to being Bonnie and Doc could go from being a true monster to being Sulley from Monsters Inc. These two, despite their vital importance to the plot, are woefully underwritten. For bank robbers Buddy, Darling Eiza Gonzalez, and Bats Jamie Foxx, they are similarly underwritten. All of them are crazy and impulsive with no depth for any of the trio ever being considered. They are just nuts and cannot be trusted. With them all being treated as villains of Baby by the end, this cast of underwritten villains makes it apparent why Wright wanted to work with Marvel his lack of knowledge of how to write a capable villain would be welcomed, instead of questioned. The only saving grace with the villain is a good motivation for why they become the villain, but it comes off of the back of too little development until then to really make it click. Movie Trailers, Reviews and New Film Releases Contactmusic.