TL;DR – This is a film that on the surface is really crass, but they use that crassness as a cover to tell a story with real heart
Score – 3.5 out of 5 stars
Post-Credit Scene – There is no post-credit scene
Review –
Well, this might be one of the biggest surprises that I have seen so far this
year. To be honest, I was not really sure what I was going to see when I sat
down at my screening of Good Boys.
However, given it was being produced by Seth Rogan, and written by this guy who
wrote Year One there may have been
some subconscious preconceptions floating there. But what I could not expect
was a film with real heart.
So to set the scene, we open in on our main trio Max (Jacob Tremblay), Lucas (Keith
L. Williams), and Thor (Brady Noon) who are in the first weeks of Middle School
in year six. They have been friends forever and call themselves the Beanbag
Boys, but while they have been inseparable in life to this point things are
rapidly changing. Max is trying to get the courage to ask out Brixlee (Millie
Davis), Lucas is struggling with changing family life, and Thor is trying to
escape his past reputation and be accepted by the cool kids like Soren (Izaac
Wang). All of this comes to a head one day when Max is invited to a kissing
party setting off a chain of events that change everything.
