FILM REVIEWS:
EGGHEAD & TWINKIE (USA 2022) ***
Directed by Sarah Kambe Holland
EGGHEAD AND TWINKIE, written and directed by Sarah Kambe Holland
plays as a road trip teenage movie about two teens who don’t know much about themselves, life, what they want, or anything else. The film is a mix of live-action and animation and is breezy and light. It looks and feels like a film with a limited target audience of LGBTQ+ or teens, but despite the fact, EGGHAD AND TWINKIE has its charm and has moved the hearts of many a moviegoer, earning a solid 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of writing this review.
EGGHEAD AND TWINKIE begins with voiceover claiming that these two have been friends for life and have never had an argument. Of course, they do as depicted at the start when the two meet at a restaurant to sort out their differences. Twinkie has left Egghead stranded during a road trip. I would never forgive any person who would do that to me, but apparently Egghead does, as he is in love with her. And then she comes out to him that she is gay.
The simple premise of the film involves an Asian American teenage girl, Twinkie (Sabrina Jieafa) who after coming out to her adoptive parents, takes off on a road trip to meet her online crush, BD (Ayden Lee) with the help of her nerdy best friend, Egghead (Louis Tomeo).
The two leads, Jieafa and Tomeo deliver charming, goofy and innocent enough performances for the audience to identify with. The raid trip encounters are eventful enough leading them to try to ditch paying a restaurant bill. But they pay after finding the money showing them to be liable chacrerts with no bad stuff in their hearts.
Besides the funny stuff. The film hits some high emotional notes with its coming-of-age dramatic moments. This is a film that would be difficult to dislike
EGGHEAD AND TWINKIE is available on demand April the 29th in Canada and the US.
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