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Hilarious. Not for everyone obviously (there was a thread on the political board calling it child abuse), but it's pretty much a 6th grade Superbad.
BennyBlancoFromTheBright
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Looks like mindless, hip skewed-decrepit crap.
Probably watch it on HBO satellite.
DallasAggie89
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Maybe I'm getting old but I saw it yesterday and honestly never laughed. One of the dumbest movies I have ever seen.
Know Your Enemy
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I thought it was OK. I definitely laughed out loud a few times but it certainly wasn't great.
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Shock humor isn't my thing. There were moments where the humor was a bit more subtle and I think that was funnier than the outlandish shock comedy. I didn't pay to see it and wouldn't pay. 2.5/10
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How did it compare to Superbad? It is getting pretty good reviews on Rotten Tomatoes so I was going to check it out, but I trust Texags more (most of the time!).
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Superbad makes this look like a cartoon. I think the cult following about superbad is due to its semi realistic premise. This is just over the top and too on the nose.
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I'm very torn on this film. On one hand, I think it was a callback to my time in junior high when people talked about things that they didn't understand and there was a lot of things that brought up memories and made me laugh. The ending 15 minutes with Max going through girlfriends every week and crying every time reminded me so much of Junior High.

On the other hand, I don't know why a parent would let their kid be in this movie. The crass language, the sexual overtones of almost every scene. While it was done in a somewhat innocent way to illustrate how these kids were still kids despite talking like they were grown ups, there were times that it was completely over-the-top.

The funniest parts of the movie to me were the dialogue with them just walking down the street where they were misusing words and phrases, and I think I was probably the only one laughing in the theater during those times. They did the subtle stuff really well.

The over the top scenes were too much over the top and didn't strike me as funny but more crass for being the sake of crass. I cringed a few times.
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And I do think as an addendum the thing that made this movie less funny to me was that they were trying to portray these kids as being mostly innocent and ignorant of the realities of adulthood, but they still had them talking like sailors. I think some of the situations would have been funnier had the kids not been cussing and using kid-friendly substitute words instead. I suppose they were going for shock value with all the f-bombs but I think it took away from some of the tonal things they were trying to accomplish.
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Have you not heard kids in online games? This language is tame for most of them.

Hell I used every curse word I could think of as a 13 year old around friends to sound more adult, but I didn't have access to the cornucopia of vulgarity that the internet has like today's kids.
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yea most of the stuff said in the movie was pretty common among my friends and i growing up, that being said the movie itself was just not that great. really lackluster, i also hate that the movie trailers spoiled some of the main jokes. they should have advertised it as the typical boy tries to get with girl plot line then throw in the vulgar and comedy in a more subtle way.
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Used one of my free passes to see this again with a friend. For some reason I just laughed so flipping hard the second time through.

"I'm not a feminist! I LOVE women!"

"Great, now I'm going to be a social piranha."

"She's a nymphomaniac."
"So she plays with fire?"
"No, that's a pyromaniac. She's a nymphomaniac. That means she can have sex on land *and* sea."

So when we walked in there was this kid who was 13 or so with his mother. He had to buy the tickets because she didn't speak a lick of english. Part of me really wanted to pull him aside and be like "dude you really don't want to see this movie with your mother." But the other part of me really wanted it to happen just to see how she reacted.

She clearly had no clue what they were saying in the movie. When the scene with the sex toys started she let out a giant gasp, screamed something in spanish, grabbed her kid and pulled him out of the theater.
aggie_fan13
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reminds me of the time we watched titanic as a family, things got really weird when the painting scene came on
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Just watched Good Boys, I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. I had to pause the movie during the scene when the middle aged man came to buy the Ascension card because I couldn't catch my breath. Then it happened to pause when the three boys were standing at the door holding their weapons, I was on the floor then. Actually one of my favorite movies this year, and I love watching movies. Being a kid should be a fun part of your life.
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It's like Superbad, but a lot less funny, with some SJW bull**** sprinkled in for good measure.

2.5/5 stars.
MaroonStain
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I watched this movie twice in two days, loved it and tell everyone I talk to that it's great.

The part where the guy visits to buy the card is incredibly hilarious. The kids in battle dress was FING AWESOMELY FUNNY.
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