Meandering through a Dallas suburb, Richard Linklater’s characters are vaguely connected by circumstance rather than plot. As the title suggests, they are slackers. None seem to work or have anything of particular importance to be doing as the film simply runs along like a slow motion relay where the focus of attention baton is passed along. What motivates you to care enough to sit through all 97 minutes is that these slackers are quirky, amusing and interesting.
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Meandering through a Dallas suburb, Richard Linklater’s characters are vaguely connected by circumstance rather than plot. As the title suggests, they are slackers. None seem to work or have anything of particular importance to be doing as the film simply runs along like a slow motion relay where the focus of attention baton is passed along. What motivates you to care enough to sit through all 97 minutes is that these slackers are quirky, amusing and interesting.
