In recent years, movies with the theme of teenagers exploring the world have been steadily innovated in Hollywood and the theme style is diverse, and what remains unchanged is that they can always inadvertently evoke the audience's memories and resonate.
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For audiences who like the "Seth Rogan's characteristic humor" represented by the "Bad Neighbors" series, the new movie "Good Boys" will best meet your tastes within the maximum moral scale.
The restrictive "Good Boys" has an emotional and sincere character design and actor performance, featuring three teenagers who are eager to grow up, hilariously depicting their first experience of adult things, taking the audience on a 90-minute journey of memories, laughing and tearing away from reality and returning to childhood.
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Three sixth-graders who grew up together, Max (Jacob Trebray), Thor (Brady Norn), and Lucas (Keith Timberlake) grew up together. L. Williams), Max's neighborhood big boy temperament is noticed by the cool kids at school, inviting the three to a "kissing party".
In order not to lose face, three 12-year-old boys who can't even kiss at all took advantage of Max's father's business trip and flew to the neighbor's sister's house in order to peek at the neighbor's sister and boyfriend to learn how to kiss.
The naïve three people did not think at all about the results of the action were of course exposed, and the three little boys who were overwhelmed and only wanted to get back the drone baby had to go to the bar with two neighbor sisters who were already college students, and stole the neighbor's sister's bag as a chip. As everyone knows, the bag contains ecstasy, commonly known as "Jasmine", which two girls just bought, thus triggering a chase adventure between Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse's unreasonable head.
Produced by Universal Pictures and co-produced by Seth Logan Productions, "The Good Boys" can be said to be the most temperamental play of Logan-style comedy. In addition to the Rocky Humor, known for its irrational head-scratching narrative style, there are no less adult themes such as drugs and sex. Although the subconscious mind still feels, or hopes, that children as the protagonists should have a certain scale (right?). ）。
"Good Boys" knows very well where the line is, and deliberately wants to poke the bottom line, giving the audience "Please don't really give drugs to children!" "The tension. But the film actually adopts the "just talk and don't practice" approach to these adult themes, only allowing the three little male protagonists to understand the "fake" experience that they do not understand, which really makes everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
The things that the three little boys encounter in the film are as random as real life, and their new things have imagination and cognition, so they make a series of jokes.
The film uses exaggerated and senseless adventures to make three boys who are anxious to grow up learn to accept the importance of reality and have a more mature and frank view of themselves and friendships. As the three little boys take their adventures, they gradually experience the physical and mental pain that must be experienced in the process of growing up. Also because everyone has a different journey, even if the three have a deep friendship, this common experience also allows them to experience that friendship is difficult to predict.
But "Good Boys" still makes people feel quite sorry for how children grow up so fast. Jacob's appearance in the movie "Room" seems to have only happened yesterday, this time starring in "Good Boys" is still cute, but the contrast caused by a fluent swear word is the tone of the movie.
Boy star Brady Norn plays Thor, who loves to be handsome but can't see his strengths, Keith Lucas, played by L. Williams, is honest and laughable.
The performance of the three boy stars is a very sincere reaction, which is the biggest highlight of "Good Boys". Their wonderful interpretation seems to understand the real cuteness of non-understanding, with the distinct personality of the character itself, taking into account the tastes of Logan-style humor fans, and pleasing audiences who do not like Logan's humor.
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Coming-of-age movies always have a cross-age charm. In the past two years, Hollywood has steadily launched growth movies, many of which are acclaimed and acclaimed masterpieces, and the Wenqing style of the 2017 Oscar movies "Miss Bird" and "Call Me by Your Name" has aroused the youthful love memories of many audiences.
2018's "Eighth Grade", 2019's "High School Student" and "Good Boys" turned a corner and changed to a comedic style, eager to experience the contrast of adult life.
Although "Good Boys" is restrictive and does not shy away from challenging the scale, it is very self-aware and good, and the topics discussed are also quite reasonable, and the three little boys are definitely the most "eye-catching" and the most "gold" in the movie.