{"id":2018519,"date":"2025-09-13T04:54:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2018519"},"modified":"2025-09-13T04:54:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:54:55","slug":"drivers-ed-review-bobby-farrellys-tame-throwback-exhumes-but-cant-revive-the-90s-teen-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/drivers-ed-review-bobby-farrellys-tame-throwback-exhumes-but-cant-revive-the-90s-teen-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Driver\u2019s Ed\u2019 Review: Bobby Farrelly\u2019s Tame Throwback Exhumes, But Can\u2019t Revive, the \u201990s Teen Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Both an obvious product of \u201990s nostalgia and the definitive cure for it, Bobby Farrelly<\/a>\u2019s terminally innocuous \u201cDriver\u2019s Ed<\/a>\u201d can be described as a youth comedy, but whose youth? Though technically it is set in the current day, because smartphones exist and someone mentions Ritalin, the sensibilities of both director and screenplay (by Thomas Moffett<\/a>) are so trapped in the past that the whole movie feels like a defrosted caveman sporting a pair of earbuds \u2014 which is essentially the plot of 1992\u2019s \u201cEncino Man<\/a>,\u201d apropos of nothing much except that after \u201cDriver\u2019s Ed<\/a>,\u201d all your comparisons will for a time gesture toward pre-millennial pop-cultural artifacts.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to remember that era being quite so unfunny, though, nor quite so tame, which is especially disappointing given that Farrelly, working with his brother Peter on films like \u201cThere\u2019s Something About Mary<\/a>\u201d and \u201cDumb and Dumber<\/a>\u201d was responsible for some of…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both an obvious product of \u201990s nostalgia and the definitive cure for it, Bobby Farrelly\u2019s terminally innocuous \u201cDriver\u2019s Ed\u201d can be described as a youth comedy, but whose youth? Though technically it is set in the current day, because smartphones exist and someone mentions Ritalin, the sensibilities of both director and screenplay (by Thomas Moffett) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2018520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2018519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Drivers-Ed-Review-Bobby-Farrellys-Tame-Throwback-Exhumes-But-Cant.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}