MOVIE REVIEW
The Peanut Butter Falcon
36 TYBEE BEACHCOMBER | DEC 2019
By Alaina Loughridge
Once again, this intrepid reporter was willing to take one for the team. Especially on The Peanut Butter Falcon, starring Shia LaBeouf, who single handedly
ruined the fourth installment of the Indiana Jones movies with his cringe worthy performance as Indy’s son in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Not to mention, he
behaved like a total drunken idiot while he was in Savannah filming this movie last year, by getting slapped with a public intox charge, along with a disorderly
and obstruction charge. That having been barfed out, I laid on the couch with disrespect in my heart and a grimace on my face. Also, wth is up with the name
of this movie??
Well, I am happy to report that I was proved wrong. Not that Shia is completely exonerated, but he is well on his way. Starring newcomer Zack Gottsagen,
an actor with Down syndrome, the movie begins with Zak busting out of an assisted living facility to pursue his dream of becoming a pro-wrestler. Zak hooks
up with Tyler (Shia), a crab pot thieving low life with a heart of gold underneath that scruffy exterior and off they travel the Georgia backwaters and coastline
in a very Twain esque era fashion. Meanwhile, Dakota Johnson as Eleanor (from 50 Shades of Grey – and yes, she has her clothes on this entire movie), is in
hot pursuit to get her patient back into the home where he belongs. She is not the only one after the two boys though, as Tyler stole from the wrong fishermen
and they too are tracking them down.
This one is really a heart tugger, but I did have a couple of problems with it and you will too. However, check it out when it hits the rentals for $2.99 and
you will not be disappointed.
I give this movie 1 bottle of Kentucky Tavern because the ending is so Hallmark that I just can’t, 1 bottle of Old Crow because the name of this movie is
eventually explained, but not soon enough to make me happy, 1 bottle of Evan Williams because the thought of a boxing throw-down ring in the middle of the
woods does kind of make me laugh, 1 bottle of Maker’s Mark because the all the actors were good and I don’t want to punch Shia in the face anymore, and 1
bottle of 1926 Macallan that auctioned off for a paltry 1.9 million because the shots of Tybee are excellent and we live here.