Tanya’s Score: Okay*
Rated: 14A
Starring: the Wonder kid and a bunch of snot-nosed brats
Plot: Three boys on the cusp of teen-dom – skip school, unwittingly steal drugs, try to avoid parental punishment and get to a party of popular kids – all while remaining best buds.
Tanya’s Verdict: There’s nothing funnier than a bunch of 11-year-olds dropping the F bomb and talking about a variety of sex acts non-stop – right? Wrong! This movie started off pretty strong – I actually was enjoying myself. It was a bit raunchy but still pretty funny. Then about 20 minutes in, with all the good material out of the way – the material, the dialogue, the gags became repetitive and gimmicky. Pre-teen boys saying “F***” and “Suck my d***” – we get it. It was a tiny bit funny the first time.
Then the movie became so much worse when all of a sudden it was no longer a raunchy, full of child actors yet made for adult viewing kind of movie and changed its pace. Suddenly it was childish and sappy – and the theatre audience I was a part of (largely twenty-somethings) started to squirm at how cringingly unfunny and childishly cheesy Good Boys became. Honest to God, it was the like the writers that were going for Super Bad Junior took a coffee break and the writers for Fuller House clocked on and finished the movie up.
To make matters worse, the acting was bad and half the kids in the background had no qualms staring directly into the camera while smiling.
Now that my rant is over I can tell you – my 13-year-old enjoyed it just fine. So maybe it’s just me.
*Four score descriptions: Sh**; Okay; Good; Great