I started
watching this movie just hoping to pass the time because the buzz and the
trailer made it seem like something I shouldn’t expect much from. I was
wrong—the movie is funny and takes you right back to your youth, to that time
when you were a young guy just starting to notice the opposite sex.
It felt like
reliving my childhood. The three young boys made me feel young again, back when
I didn’t know anything about sex or kissing and just wanted to be cool. Their
innocence was everything needed to make this movie worth watching.
The plot follows
three young boys and their series of misadventures. Their naive view of life
and their hope to make it to a kissing party drive the story. The three boys
are Max (Jacob Tremblay), Lucas (Keith L. Williams), and Thor (Brady Noon). Max
has a crush on a girl at his school named Brixlee. He and his two friends call
themselves the Bean Bag Boys, and they’re pretty much seen as losers around
school. Max has a bit of a cool vibe, though, which made some kids think he’s
better than the rest. So, he gets invited to a kissing party, and since Brixlee
will be there, he agrees to go—on the condition that he can bring his two
friends.
It starts with
Max and his friends using his dad’s prized drone to spy on his teenage
neighbor, Hannah, to learn how to kiss properly. Hannah and her friend catch
the drone, and now Max has to get it back. His attempt to retrieve it doesn’t
go as planned, and the three end up stealing the girls’ bag, which happens to
have drugs in it. The girls want their drugs back, and Max and his friends want
the drone back. What could have been an easy trade gets complicated by their
naive view of life.
Soon, everything
that could have made their problem easier just gets more and more tangled as
their individual quirks and mistakes make things worse.
The movie was
written and directed by Gene Stupnitsky, and it’s his directorial debut.
Worth seeing.
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