WHAT’S IT ABOUT
Invited to his first kissing party, 12-year-old Max asks his best friends Lucas and Thor for some much-needed help on how to pucker up. When they hit a dead-end, Max decides to use his father’s drone to spy on the teenage girls next door. When the boys lose the drone, they skip school and hatch a plan to retrieve it before Max’s dad can figure out what happened.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
For as long as I can remember, adults had always thought it was funny when a baby, a child, or any young person said a curse word. So it doesn’t surprise me that a movie involving three 12-year-old boys is centered around their extreme use of bad language and their ignorance of everything else. Listening to sixth-graders curse amongst each other gets old very quickly, and once that happens, all you have left is a convoluted story with very little substance. The central theme of the movie is this: Max, Thor, and Lucas are best friends that meet in kindergarten. Now, years later, their lives start to change as each of them is becoming their own person in ways that could ruin the friendship. That simple idea is somewhat lost in a sea of unnecessary side plots, scenes used just for filler, and less than juvenile physical gags. Throughout the film, every scene felt like an SNL skit trying to outdo the last one, with each of them in dire need of a celebrity cameo. The main problem with Good Boys is also the only reason most people want to see it. It has kids cursing, and it involves sexual implications that the kids don’t understand. Also, the words they use don’t match their knowledge base. It’s like knowing how to drive a car but not knowing it uses gas. In my opinion, this could have been a much better movie if the writers were not relying on kids cursing to carry the film. Overall, Good Boys is a good (not great) movie that’s definitely better to watch with a group of friends, at a discount, after a couple of drinks, with nothing better to do, on a Tuesday.
OUR RATING – A FOUL-MOUTHED 6
Media
- Genre – Comedy
- Street date
- Digital – October 29th 2019
- DVD/Blu-Ray – November 12th 2019
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.39:1
- Sound – English (DTS-HD 5.1)
- Subtitles – English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras
- UNRATED ALTERNATE ENDING
- UNRATED DELETED AND EXTENDED SCENES
- Turtle vs. Tortoise
- Benji Don’t Like That
- Customer Service
- Ball Pit Shenanigans
- Tracking Molly
- Stealing a Glance
- Upsell Fail
- Max Explodes
- Best Friends
- Traffic Jam
- First Kiss Heartbreak
- GAG REEL
- BOYS FOR REAL – A look into the casting process and real-life friendships that evolved on-set.
- WELCOME TO VANCOUVER – Watch as Jacob Tremblay shows off some of his favorite things about his home town.
- A FINE LINE – Hear filmmakers and cast discuss how the film’s stars delivered such colorful dialogue without necessarily knowing what the words mean.
- ASK YOUR PARENTS – Cast and filmmakers talk about how they were able to navigate adult questions from curious child actors.
- BAD GIRLS – Molly Gordon and Midori Francis discuss how they were able to ramp up the mean, and how Annabelle was able to raise the comedy stakes.
- GUEST STARS – Take a closer look at some of the hilarious guest stars that lent their unique talents to the film