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- 1985
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 31 m
- 1985
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 31 m
Summary Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Directed By: Kevin Reynolds
Written By: Kevin Reynolds
- 1985
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 31 m
- 1985
- PG
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 31 m
Fandango
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Summary Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Directed By: Kevin Reynolds
Written By: Kevin Reynolds
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Metascore
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Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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60% Positive
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40% Negative
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There is a sense of déjà vu all right, but this is an extremely attractive valediction to youth, with farcical underpinnings ably handled by Reynolds.
Fandango emerges as a quite promising feature debut by writer-director Kevin Reynolds, with its feet squarely within the overused boys-coming-of-age genre but its heart betraying an appealingly anarchic, iconoclastic bent.
Kevin Reynolds, who wrote and directed Fandango, is for the most part making just another coming-of-age film. But at its best, his debut feature has an appealing boisterousness, and it successfully walks a fine line between sensitivity and swagger.
Since FANDANGO never has anything to say about its well-worn themes, the film quickly becomes boring and predictable.
Fandango overreaches badly and sinks under a heavy weight of symbolism, bathos and sheer preposterousness that no amount of humor and incident can redeem.
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