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Good Boys
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Dir: Gene Stupnitsky
Starring: Jacob Tremblay, Will Forte
(USA, 15 1hr 29mins)
If you like 12-year-olds swearing you’ll love this. That’s most of what happens, aside from misguided guesses about what sex is. A slick if crass version of Superbad for tweens, although how kids of that age will see it is open to question.
Three 12-year-old boys, Max, Thor and Lucas, played by Jacob Tremblay, Brady Noon and Keith L Williams are invited to a cool house party. Girls will be there and they’re in a tizz; they have just discovered masturbation. With no idea how to even kiss they decide to watch some porn. Disgusted, they instead use Max’s dad drone to spy on their ‘nymphomaniac’ teenage next-door neighbours – it’s 12-year-old logic. Max has a crush on a girl who will also be at the party and doesn’t want to look a fool.
The drone is discovered by the girls, whilst the boys end up with an ecstasy supply. Now the boys have to find a way to get the drone back and learn how to kiss, discovering a lot about sex and themselves along the way. This mostly involves them discovering dildos and sex swings, breaking their arms, stealing beer, running across busy highways, stuff you’ve seen before but not with foul-mouthed 12-year-olds.
The kids make a fair fist at it all, but the audience for this film seems rather misjudged, as the kids who form the central trio and their age group would be excluded from watching at the cinema and everyone else…well, has seen Superbad and countless other frat boy comedies, which this is, but you know…younger. Lazy and with some unearned sentiment, Good Boys is more like Not Very Good Boys really.
Out now in cinemas
words Keiron Self