Review: Pete Davidson finds his spotlight in high-school comedy ‘Big Time Adolescence’

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Review: Pete Davidson finds his spotlight in high-school comedy ‘Big Time Adolescence’
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‘Big Time Adolescence’ stars Pete Davidson as a committed suburban slacker who offers ill-advised life lessons to the teenage brother of his ex-girlfriend.

and prodigious pot smoking than for anything he’s done in showbiz. But that should start to change with “Big Time Adolescence,” a high-school comedy featuring a dynamic Davidson performance.

Griffin Gluck stars as Mo Harris, an ordinary suburban 16-year-old who’s been pals since elementary school with his older sister’s hard-partying ex-boyfriend Zeke . Mo has a tense relationship with his helicopter parents — especially his dad, played byMo also has Zeke, the kind of best bud who gets him drunk, tells him dirty jokes and dares him to do stupid things, like sell drugs to the upperclassmen to boost his popularity.

Writer-director Jason Orley sticks to the tried-and-true. This is a conventional, dude-centric cautionary tale about a boy who risks everything because of peer pressure. Frankly, the film feels like it’s missing a narrative beat or two … not to mention a proper ending.But it is funny and fast paced, with an outstanding cast, and Orley modulates the tone well, conveying both the fun and the danger of being young, impulsive and poorly supervised.

Mostly, the movie is memorable because of Davidson, who with his impish smirk, buggy eyes and short-sighted YOLO philosophy brings a rakish charm to the role of the sketchy high school friend so many people — if they’re lucky — eventually outgrow.R, for drug content, alcohol use, pervasive language, and sexual references — all involving teens

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