Grade: B
Good Boys is exactly as the trailer suggests – American Pie meets Stranger Things. It has the raunchy language and humor of the former, with the protagonists closer to the ages of that of the latter. It exists in a world where these pre-teens are quite well-versed in how to fly a drone using an iPhone, and colorful 4-letter words and expressions from the last 20 years, and yet when it comes time to sing or make a reference to music, all they seem to know are songs from the 1980s (these are 6th graders, mind you). What would a 12-year-old in 2019 pick as an audition song for the big school musical? Why, Foreigner’s I Want To Know What Love Is, obviously. Is this a good time to mention that the director was born in 1977?
Will Forte appears in a glorified cameo as “Max’s Dad” – basically the new Eugene Levy/”Jim’s Dad” from the Pie movies. The 3 young gifted actors, who could not have been born yet when the first, second, or even third Pie film came out, carry, sell, and give the sometimes lame and trite material more weight than it has a right to have. I belly-laughed a few times. There is some fun, some nice messages, and a possible potential sequel years down the road that I wouldn’t hate the idea of. Good Boys is not like the real thing, but is a fun enough simulation, and will get you ready for the real thing.
Grade: B
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