Universal Pictures
Any movie that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are connected to, I am there. Rogen and Goldberg co-wrote Superbad and produced Sausage Party, Neighbors, and Good Boys together. Superbad is one of my all-time favorite movies and seeing Rogen and Goldberg attached to Good Boys made me excited to see it.
Good Boys is essentially Superbad, but with a younger cast. Superbad saw three best friends trying to get to a party but suffering a lot of mishaps along the way. Good Boys focuses on three best friends trying to get to a kissing party but suffer a lot of mishaps along the way. Very similar, but I’m all for it. The three best friends are played by Jacob Tremblay, Brady Noon, and Keith L. Williams. After getting invited to a kissing party, they are afraid they aren’t prepared for it at all. Their first attempt to learn how to kiss involves researching it on the internet, which didn’t pan out for them, and then they tried to kiss a CPR doll (which wasn’t a CPR doll at all) and that ended poorly for them as well. They resorted to spying on teenage girls next door using a drone. After the girls capture it and confront them, it leads to the boys trying to get back the drone before Max’s dad gets home.
Good Boys is a film that I could watch repeatedly and appreciate something new about it every time. I’ve lost count at how many times I have seen Superbad, but every time I watch that film, I love it even more than the previous time I saw it. Good Boys has all the right elements to make this a film that I will love for years.
Max (Tremblay), Lucas (Williams), and Thor (Noon) have such great chemistry that they feel like real friends. The scenes of them goofing off and arguing seemed easy for them to film. Their interactions felt genuine, which was easily the best thing about the movie. The reason Superbad worked so well was how the three friends were able to joke with each other and I was able to laugh with them. I felt the same way with Good Boys.
Good Boys is 100 minutes of straight comedy. I was laughing non-stop throughout the movie. The raunchy jokes kept on coming, which made the pacing for the film so quick. Since the boys are so young, a lot of things they know are completely wrong, so a lot of the humor in the film is the boys talking about sex when they know nothing about it. According to Max, a nymphomaniac is someone who has sex on both land and sea. Who would have thought?
The movie reminded me a lot of my group of friends I had when I was in 6th grade. We went around school like we knew everything, but thinking back on it, we knew nothing. I was immediately transported back to being 12 years old even though I was never invited to a kissing party.
Besides the constant humor in the film, the movie had a lot to say about friendships as you get older. The three boys had different interests but remained friends through it all. As the film came to an end, the film taught us that it is okay to have different interests from your best friends. I have remained friends with a few of my friends from junior high despite us having different careers and interests, but we know that we will always be there for each other. Max, Lucas, and Thor had a solid friendship that could still last for years to come and it was fun watching the trio learn more about themselves towards the end.
Raunchy comedies have been in a decline since Superbad. A few have come along that have been raunchy, but I just didn’t find them to be that funny. Raunchy comedy is my jam and Good Boys satisfied me on all levels!
Good Boys has a run time of 1 hour 29 minutes and is rated R for strong crude sexual content, drug and alcohol material, and language throughout – all involving tweens.
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