Last year, raunchy comedies with a family bent from Seth Rogen’s production company, — director Kay Cannon’s “Blockers” — earned strong reviews and box office success. The producer hopes to replicate that success this year, with “Good Boys,” which also features kids doing bad things. Albeit, really young kids.
As seen in the new red band trailer for “Good Boys,” we see that the film follows the story of three middle school-aged kids as they prepare for their first-ever “kissing party.” Of course, considering this is a film that follows in the footsteps of recent classics like “Superbad” and this year’s “Booksmart,” the lead-up to the party is where all the fun is had, as the three boys go from crazy situation to even more insane situation.
The film stars Jacob Tremblay, Brady Noon, Keith L. Williams, Molly Gordon, Midori Francis, and Will Forte. “Good Boys,” as the intro suggests, comes from the production company of Seth Rogen and Adam Goldberg, who brought you such films as the aforementioned “Superbad” and “Sausage Party.”
“Good Boys” hits theaters on August 16.
Here’s the synopsis:
After being invited to his first kissing party, 12-year-old Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is panicking because he doesn’t know how to kiss. Eager for some pointers, Max and his best friends Thor (Brady Noon, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) and Lucas (Keith L. Williams, Fox’s The Last Man On Earth) decide to use Max’s dad’s drone – which Max is forbidden to touch – to spy (they think) on a teenage couple making out next door.
But when things go ridiculously wrong, the drone is destroyed. Desperate to replace it before Max’s dad (Will Forte, The Last Man on Earth) gets home, the boys skip school and set off on an odyssey of epically bad decisions involving some accidentally stolen drugs, frat-house paintball, and running from both the cops and terrifying teenage girls (Life of the Party’s Molly Gordon and Ocean’s Eight’s Midori Francis).
