Sunday, September 1, 2019

Good Boys



 

Gene Stupnitsky's Good Boys features a trio of tweens stumbling through some fairly clever writing and robbing a film that should be more than outrageous of valuable cinematic weight. It feels gimmicky and exploitative. As talented as Jacob Tremblay (Room) is, his co-stars -- Keith L. Williams and Brady Noon -- are cute and energetic but only adequate line deliverers and in some scenes so off-key and out of synch it's painful. The plot is of little consequence but involves a kissing party to which Tremblay's Max has been invited and further to which his lifelong buds Lucas and Thor will accompany him as wing men IF they can replace Dad's destroyed drone and score some MDMA for a duo of teenage girls. The film was backed by the Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg stable of producers, which means the picture is verbose and profane and occasionally brilliantly. To that point, listening to 12-year-olds dropping f-bombs non-stop is fleetingly entertaining, pour moi, if you'll pardon my French. The deeper into the picture the more grating it becomes and one ends up feeling sorry for these kids who probably understood little about what they were saying and less about the marital aids they were juggling throughout.




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