Good Boys

Making a R-rated film that revolves around 11-year-olds that is geared toward teens and adults isn’t in easy buy yet somehow Good boys succeeds in doing just that while still providing the laughs and heart that make it a nice summer comedy.

These boys, Max (Jacob Tremblay), Lucas (Keith L. Williams) and Thor (Brady Noon) are really good kids with a genuine innocence to them that makes what they get into all the more comical.

Max is the short baby-faced Lothario, Lucas is the overweight, rules abiding mama’s boy and Thor is trying to fit in with the cool kids but really belongs in the choir and stage plays.

The film gets into gear when Max, the de facto leader of the “bean bag boys,” is invited to a make-out party where the girl of his dreams, Brixlee, will be there.

He doesn’t know how to kiss so of course he looks it up online and stumbles on to a porn site. Not the right kissing. The boys then try to practice on a CPR doll that happens to have soft features, exotic eyes and pubic hair in its mouth.

Something appears to be off there too.

So they do what all unsupervised young boys would do. Max steals his father’s drone and spies on the neighboring teenager who the boys think is a “nymphomaniac… a person that has sex on land and on water.”

The plan fails and the neighbor and her friend capture the drone but the boys steal her purse that happens to have a bottle of “molly” in it, taking this film on a path of getting the drone back from his neighbor while steering these poor “old girls” away from a path of drugs and destruction.

Obviously a plan cooked up my middle-class suburbian 11-year olds will not end well, with each and every situation taking them further down a rabbit hole of teenage, young adults and adult paths, which makes the film so enjoyable to watch.

It’s what we as adults know that these kids don’t that makes the situation so hilarious… such as playing with “A-Nal” beads and giving them as a gift or putting on a leather gimp mask in order to play tough when doing collectable card deal.

It’s pretty funny because it’s relatable. We’ve lived this to some degree during our own childhoods, seeing something we shouldn’t have seen or didn’t quite understand. We’re in such a hurry to grow up we forget how fun it was to simply be a kid and not know this adult world that can get pretty complicated at times.

These three friends care a lot about each other but they are all very different and they do come to realize this. As sad as it may be a lot of the times the more we mature, the more we grow apart and gravitate to our own interests.

Outside of if you’re into some freaky stuff do a better job of hiding your sex toys from your kids, the truth shown during this film is that no matter your age, you’re still growing… still maturing.

It’s an entertaining and unique coming of age comedy that only adults will get.