Sorry everyone for the late review, I’ve been extremely busy with school and planning my 10 year anniversary to NYC this weekend. Without further ado…

Drinking Buddies (2013)
Directed by: Joe Swanberg
Staring:  Anna Kendrick, Jack Johnson and Olivia Wilde

I was very excited about this film; it looked like one I would be totally wrapped up in. I love Magnolia Pictures, I feel Jake Johnson is hilarious and I adore Anna Kendrick, but none of that helped this film at all. It wasn’t a horrible film but it wasn’t very entertaining either, my husband left the room after 30 minutes.

This is set in a brewing factory with Kate as the only female employee and she is a guy’s girl, beautiful but into beer and sports. From the beginning you can see the attraction between Kate and Luke and the lack of it between Kate and Chris. You can easily see the inner fight within Luke with his attraction to Kate because he genuinely loves Jill. Out of no where, and I mean I have no clue how this happened because it literally jumped from a party clean up to this scene, the two couples are on a beach side weekend getaway together. During this time you see the couples off with the others significant other more than each other which was more awkward than anything else. Again the film throws plots out of no where, Jill informs Luke she’s going out of country for awhile and this is when you think she’s cheating on him with Chris and Luke will inevitably end up with Kate. Wrong, it’s far more boring than that, Kate sleeps with a different co-worker and Luke gets jealous and things become tense between them. After more awkward tense scenes of Luke helping Kate move Jill comes home and tells Luke of the kiss shared between her and Chris on the weekend trip awhile back. There’s no argument just a kiss to show they are ok and the scene cuts to a scene of Kate having lunch and Luke eventually joining her, summing up their friendship is mended.

The dialogue was typical of an independent film, seemingly unscripted and surface deep. The lighting didn’t help it was very drab and dim and almost felt gloomy. There is swearing but not an over abundance of it along with nudity in one scene (Olivia Wilde’s breasts). Overall I was disappointingly bored with this film and give it a 1 out of 5 stars.