Driving Lessons Reviews
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With the aid of a charmingly offbeat story and a jolly good dialect coach, the stars leave you thinking, well done. Their spirited performances help cover up glaring holes in the plot.
Read the full reviewBasically conservative yet titillatingly "eccentric" British laffer could succeed in the "Full Monty" import slot.
Read the full reviewThe screwball aging diva genre isn't the only formula guiding this stubbornly old-fashioned movie. Driving Lessons belongs to the silly feel-good mode of "The Full Monty," "Calendar Girls," "Billy Elliot," "Kinky Boots" and dozens of other celebrations of Britons defying convention to become "free," whatever that means.
Read the full reviewDriving Lessons follows the well-worn path laid down by other, better movies while making strained, ludicrous things happen toward the end.
Read the full reviewAiming for wacky and heartwarming, the film is, at its sporadic best, a mildly diverting coming-of-age story. At its worst, it feels forced.
Read the full reviewEverybody in the movie is so tightly wound that Walters seems a model of actorly limberness. She cuts through the movie with speed and mannish, zany wit.
Read the full reviewThere is but one reason to sign up for Driving Lessons: to watch Rupert Grint -- Harry Potter's redheaded pal Ron Weasley -- squaring off with Julie Walters, Queen of the English Scenery Chewers.
Read the full reviewLinney is too sensitive and capable an actress to play a stock villain like this. That everyone in the movie dislikes her makes you dislike everyone in the movie.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 56
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hottness
"Rupert Grint is so hot! Even though i have not seen this movie yet i can tell it is absolutly brilliant. i can't wait for it to come out in the united states."
tootsiepop
"I love this movie! Harry Potter's Rupert Grint shows he can act outside of Harry Potter! It is a great story about growing up. Grint does a great job at playing this part."
idfk
"is this movie coming out on dvd or something? because i dont think its in theatres anymore and it never came to a theatre anywhere CLOSE to where i live. I wanna see it soo bad cause he is one of my favorite actors of all time."
no clue
"well ive never seen the movie cuz it didnt come to my what you a shithole of A TOWN..BUT IT HAS RUPERT GRINT IN IT SOIT HAS TO BE GOOD....I MEAN THIS IS ISNT THE FIRST MOVIE HES DONE BY HIMSELF OTHER THAN HARRY POTTER...HE WAS IN A MOVIE CALLED "THUNDERPANTS" ITS A MOVIE ABOUT GAS SO DONT LAUGH AT ME...BUT ANYWAYS...I THINK IT WILL AN AWESOME MOVIE BECAUSE HES SUCHA A GOOD ACTOR"
brilliant!
"I loved this movie! very witty and funny, great storyline! it was absolutley brilliant!"
Steer Clear of 'Driving Lessons'
"Rupert Grints far from the top of the class at Hogwarts wizardry school, where he co-stars as all-around average student and Harry Potter sidekick Ron Weasley in the fantasy franchise.Drivers education doesnt seem to be Grints best subject, either.With Driving Lessons, i think that Grint becomes the first of the three Harry Potter stars to take the lead in his own movie. Grints a suitably awkward, sullen teen in this tale of a sheltered kid busting loose for the first time, but its a one-note performance in a fairly pedestrian coming-of-age drama.Grint, Linney and Walters earnestly embrace the roles, but their characters are so flatly and stereotypically written they come off almost as caricatures of the sensitively gawky youth, the maternal zealot and the outrageous mentor.i think thats its clearly a very personal little story for Brock, but its just not that interesting a scenario. Aiming to show he can act outside the magical world of Harry Potter, Grint shows a bit more range than the eager-pup persona that Ron Weasley calls for. But either his Bens too passive or Grint himself is, because the character never really registers emotionally.Bottom line on 'Driving Lessons': Steer clear."
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