Okay, bros, you’re going to see this movie. Why? There are so many reasons. Let’s start with the fact it’s main characters are bi-sexual girls in a rockband. Let me type that again. The movie is about hot chicks making out with other chicks and playing rock n’ roll. Now that alone should probably get you walking to the movie theater, but it gets better. Dakota Fanning plays the lead singer from the Runaways, Cherie Currie and she makes out with Kristen Stewart who plays Joan Jett.
Let me type that again. Dakota Fanning plays the lead singer from the Runaways, Cherie Currie and she makes out with Kristen Stewart who plays Joan Jett. Is it okay to look at Dakota Fanning? That is a gray area bros, as she is only 16 and was probably 15 when she shot this movie. However, that was the exact age of the lead singer while she was touring Japan during the Runaways ill-fated tour.
The Runaways manager shouts, “Jailbait!” at one point in the movie and that’s what you’re pretty much watching. Beyond that, the movie is pretty sweet and follows the rise and fall of one of rock’s most influential and tragic bands. You’ll be wikipedia-ing later to find out some of the real details, but ultimate the movie is mostly about Joan Jett, one of the movie’s producers, and how she went on to rock, while her friend Cherie decided she wanted a “real” life. Kristen Stewart does a perfect Joan Jett “hunch” and really captures her movements. There are a few weird edits in the movie and the very talented Alia Shawkat (Maybe from Arrested Development) is literally given no lines, but other than that the movie rocks. The sound track really spoke to this old man, bros.
So go out and see the Runaways (although it probably should’ve been called “Joan Jett: The Movie”) Wikipedia the rest of the band. There’s lots more story there. I still give the Runaways 8.5 keggers out of ten.
