
Never Goin’ Back 3 ½ stars
Much in the vein of Superbad and Bridesmaids, Never Goin’ Back brings us Angela and Jessie, two teenage girls who are living on their own glide through various bizarre hijinks in their small world in a Texas town. The two girls are without parents and are best friends who work as waitresses in a local restaurant. Angela has a plan to spend a week at the beach to celebrate Jessie’s seventeenth birthday and has spent the rent money on a hotel room. Thus, the girls must scheme to come up with the rent money while dealing with drug dealers, a few days in jail and getting high on some “cookies”. While often vulgar and crude, the movie has a very comedic core made genuine by the talents of the stars, Maia Mitchell and Camilla Morrone who portray the girls as strong women who would die for each other. The movie is loosely based on the memories of writer/director Augustine Frizzell who apparently spent her teenage years in endless mischief with her best friend in a small Texas town. If you can stomach the bathroom humor, projectile vomit and frequent drug use you may want to give Never Goin’ Back a look.