Better Late than Never on "Good Boys"

Continuing with my quarantine movie watch, I just recently saw the movie "Good Boys".

This movie got a very limited release in theaters, it is dirty and has children saying the dirty words, which may be why it got released and pulled so quickly from the theaters. I remember seeing the previews, seeing that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were producers, and wanting to see the movie. It looked funny and it looked like me and my friends growing up. It looked and felt familiar, and that was just from the trailer. Watching it the other day only reaffirmed that for me so much more. This movie is hilarious and heartfelt and goofy and sweet and I loved every single second of it.

The movie is not without big actors either. Will Forte plays Jacob Tremblay's dad. Both of those actors have been in big time stuff. Keith L Williams is another one of the kids, and he has been on a number of sitcoms already. And Brady Noon, the third member of the "Bean Bag Boys", that is what they call themselves because they all sit on bean bags when they hang out, was a recurring actor on "Boardwalk Empire". These kids are no slouches, and they absolutely crushed it in this movie. They were funny. So what if they said bad words. Spoiler alert parents out there, all 5th and 6th graders swear like these kids did in the movie. I did it, you did it, we all did it. I remember being caught, as a 6th grader, by my dad swearing in front of my friends. It was brutal, but I didn't stop. I was a dumb kid that wanted to be cool. Just like the "Bean Bag Boys". If you can get past the swearing, which is easy, at least for me, this movie is really solid.

The long and short of the plot is the kids get invited to a "kissing party". They have never kissed anyone before, so they go on a mission to find out, and some wild stuff happens from there. They search kissing on the internet, and they obviously end up on a pornography site. That scene in and of itself is worth a watch. It was so funny, so relatable and played so well by the actors. They then try to spy on their neighbor and her boyfriend, and that leads us into a whole other plot point where Tremblay loses his dad's drone. This leads us to some of the best moments of this very good, very funny movie. The interaction with the two high school girls is hilarious throughout the movie. The stuff with the cop, played by Sam Richardson, was my favorite. The scenes involving the three main characters fighting and making up and yelling at one another is what I related to most in the movie. I fought like that with my friends. I mentioned the swearing before, and I did all that. I was terrified to kiss a girl when I was a 6th grader, and that spoke so true to me. It was like watching my childhood unfold.

I had a close knit group of friends just like the "Bean Bag Boys", and what this movie did so well, was showing them kind of grow apart. That is the main point, for me, in this movie. This movie isn't about a kissing party or finding a drone or fighting with friends, it is about growing up and growing apart. It is about how you change the older you get. How the stuff that you were into as a kid kind of fades away. I had friends that loved sports like I did when we were kids, when we were the "Bean Bag Boys", who one day just decided they weren't into it anymore. It was brutal, but that is what happens. And "Good Boys" does such a wonderful job of portraying that. And the last scene in this movie was great. It was like one last big party with your closest friends.

I loved this movie, and was surprised at how many different emotions it brought out in me. I highly recommend watching it. I bet you will enjoy it. 

Ty

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