''The Runaways'' Review by Time Out Dubai
Wasn’t it only yesterday that Dakota Fanning shrieked her way into your splitting headache in War of the Worlds? She was just 11 back then, and in this fast-and-loose dramatisation of the flameout of the ’70s proto-grrrl group, she’s all of 15. Fanning’s co-star, vamp bait Kristen Stewart, isn’t that much more experienced (she can vote).
These two make up the film’s frontline as, respectively, blonde yowler Cherie Currie and future-bad-reputation-disregarder Joan Jett. It’s exactly as it should be; the band’s story is a cautionary one. So if you feel yourself getting protective, the movie is doing its job.
The two underage characters meet, naturally, in a bar, shoved together by creepy LA entrepreneur Kim Fowley (Shannon). Soon enough, they’re crammed into a motor home, working on chord ch-ch-changes and sliding inexorably toward drugs and Japanese fame. As styled by director Floria Sigismondi, the film mainly glances on these surfaces – it’s more giggly goofy than naughty. There’s very little pathos here for something presumably informed by Currie’s 1989 memoir. Still, there’s lots of volume in these tunes – the soundtrack is killer – and at least everyone gets their rocks off.
Source => Time Out Dubai
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