Who cares about a jeans ad? Sydney Sweeney’s real controversy is the bellbottom-of-the-barrel quality of her new movie, “Americana.”
Who cares about a jeans ad?
Sydney Sweeney’s real controversy is the bell-bottom-of-the-barrel quality of her new movie, “Americana.”
Newish, that is. The wannabe Western crime drama premiered at South By Southwest back in March 2023 and is only now skulking into some theaters.
It’s a violently annoying and annoyingly violent ensemble piece speckled with “look how wacky we are!” characters that are impossible to put up with; a copycat Coen Brothers yarn with the depth of a tortilla.
The cast breakdown reads like a parody.
Sweeney plays Penny Jo, a shy South Dakota waitress who dreams of becoming a country singer but has a stammer.
We are supposed to accept that the constantly photographed Sweeney is a wallflower nobody pays any attention to. The actress’ fake speech impediment, meanwhile, comes off both rehearsed and not nearly rehearsed enough.
Penny Jo finally gets some human face time with a creepy loser. That’s Lefty (Paul Walter Hauser), a breathy schlub who has proposed to four women this year alone.
