What was set up for it to be one of the best comedy films of the year, “Good Boys” left a bad taste in the mouths of those who sat through it because of the crude humor and the repetitive and poorly timed jokes that filled the script of the movie this past weekend since it premiered Friday, Aug. 16. The film starred Jacob Tremblay as Max, Keith L. Williams as Lucas, and Brady Noon as Thor, along with a star-studded supporting cast surrounding the young actors yet left much to be desired from such a hyped movie.

   While having some of Hollywood’s most well-known and respected comedians in Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen among the producers’ list, many of the jokes in what should have been gut-wrenching, seemed to be very forced and redundant throughout the entire film. On the other hand, many would argue that the movie was great as it was funny and exciting to see children do adult things such as drugs, drink, and use vulgar language, as suggested in its R-rating, as that gives us a very radical point-of-view a child’s struggles growing up and dealing with transitioning into becoming a teenager. 

    In reality, the jokes were poorly written and also very redundant and pointless. Every five minutes it seemed, there had to be a joke or a gag inserted for the kids to do, and at times the placement of them seemed very forced and unnecessary, or sometimes even downright inappropriate for the tone that was being set up at times, especially in a scene where Lucas (Keith L. Williams) is pouring his heart out to Max (Jacob Tremblay) and Thor (Brady Noon) about his parents’ divorce and not being okay at all emotionally, and Thor responds only with “dude… was it your fault,” which is sloppy writing as it makes the feelings and empathy developed during the emotional scene, pointless. 

   The film did perform remarkably in the box office over the weekend with a 21 million dollar debut, that could be more attributed to the amazing marketing job the movie had surrounding it. The trailers released caused a lot of hype throughout the nation and especially on social media, with “Good Boys” being labeled as the second coming of “Super Bad” which starred “Good Boys” producer Jonah Hill as well. The media attention the movie received was massive as every other post on any social media site (i.e. Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) which managed to help the production in surpassing its budget of 20 million dollars by 1 million, which that itself is a win for the entire film production. 

    “Good Boys” should have been an awesome movie, and should have been one to truly remember as a bright spot of 2019, but that is simply not the case here. The movie was sloppily written, its jokes were lackluster at best, and this is quite honestly one movie that Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, and all of the star cast should soon forget and leave off of their resume.