Given the expanded canvas of the R rated film, Good Boys takes full advantage and its jokes are rude, crude and consistently funny. And in a pleasant departure from most films of this ilk, the jokes are mostly cruelty free. This allows the laughs to flow more freely.

Max (Jacob Tremblay), Lucas (Keith L. Williams) and Thor (Brady Noon) are three young friends just trying to fit in. None fit in with the cool kids but they are not complete outcasts either. The class system at their school isn’t a particularly harsh one and they are allowed to express some individuality without severe repercussions.

This gives their characters diversity and opens up more avenues to explore. Good Boys is a growing up story that succeeds with a lot of humour and more than a little warmth. It’s kind hearted, very funny and prodigiously naughty.

Rob Hudson
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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).

From Point Grey producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, the writers of Superbad, Pineapple Express and Sausage Party, and James Weaver (Neighbors), Good Boys, from Universal Pictures and Good Universe, is written by the team of Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (NBC’s The Office, Bad Teacher). Eisenberg also produces and Stupnitsky directs.

Good Boys in in Australian Cinemas August 15!
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