MOVIE REVIEW
“Fort Tilden”
Grade: C-
Starring Bridey Elliott, Clare McNulty and Jeffrey Scaperrotta. Directed by Sarah Violet-Bliss and Charles Rogers.
Rated R for strong language, sexual content, some graphic nudity and brief drug use. Check listings for theaters. 1 hour, 35 minutes.
Bottom line: A dull, low-energy comedy that is tiresome
There’s a good, funny movie to be made out of the material in “Fort Tilden,” a sort-of “Mean Girls”-meets-“Girls” adventure about a day in the life of two spoiled Brooklynistas whose lives revolve around snark, attitude and casual racism. But this dull, low-energy comedy does nothing with it.
Harper (Bridey Elliott) and Allie (Clare McNulty) are roommates who, after meeting a couple of guys at a folk gig one night, decide to meet them at Fort Tilden Beach the next day. However, since they rarely seem to leave their neighborhood, they don’t know how to get there and much of the film is them rambling around on foot, by bike and on one unfortunate taxi ride. It seems as if neither Uber nor Google Maps exist in this Brooklyn.
If the characters they met along the way were interesting or humorous, or if Harper and Allie weren’t so gratingly insufferable, “Fort Tilden” could have been an inspired, low-budget lark from directors and writers Sarah Violet-Bliss and Charles Rogers. As it is, much like its main characters, “Fort Tilden” is just tiresome.
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