GoodBoys knows how to make us laugh because it knows the people we once were, and maybe still secretly are. BilgeEbiri writes
Photo: Ed Araquel/Universal Pictures Good Boys takes one of the most familiar subgenres of our time — the adolescent horndog coming-of-age comedy — and slyly subverts it with one crucial twist. This time, the kids are really young, so they’re even more clueless than the hormone-addled besties of films like Superbad or The To Do List.
The story, as is often the case with these coming-of-age raunch-fests, occurs over the course of one day, as Max , Lucas , and Thor — who collectively call themselves “the Beanbag Boys” — find themselves invited to a party hosted by the school’s resident cool kid, Soren , and realize they have to get some experience fast before they go.
The title Good Boys is not meant to be ironic; the Beanbag Boys actually are good, well-behaved kids. They do what their parents tell them. They’re afraid to stray too far from their neighborhood. They say no to drugs. They refuse to lie. They are also clueless. They think girls stick tampons up their butts to keep babies from coming out. They think a feminist is someone who hates women. They can’t open childproof pill bottles.
That’s also why Good Boys manages to find surprising pathos within its simple concept. It’s been crafted with a real sense of character psychology. These kids are at that age when everybody’s developing differently. So, Max is discovering girls and pines for Brixlee , a kindly classmate who looks like she might reciprocate, but who also seems even shyer than he is.
The laughs are effective — gross, yet clever — but the movie becomes funnier, and in some ways sadder, the more the jokes play off the kids’ inner lives. When Lucas informs his friends that his parents are splitting up, Thor asks, matter-of-factly, “So, what’d you do?” It’s the kind of awful question that children of divorce all know too well from the person inside their heads who’s always peppering them with hurtful questions and observations.
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