What starts out looking like it wants to be a gross-out comedy in the Porky’s vein eventually, and more gratifyingly, heads closer to The Graduate territory in No Hard Feelings. It seems like quite…
What starts out looking like it wants to be a gross-out comedy in the Porky’s vein eventually, and more gratifyingly, heads closer toIt seems like quite a while since we’ve seen an apparent sex-on-the-brain romp that actually has a bit more on its mind than just pushing the boundaries of vulgarity and gross-out comedy.
Set in seaside Montauk, New York, all seems rather contrived at the start, as Allison and Laird Becker are terribly concerned about their son Percy , who is staggeringly withdrawn and uncommunicative. If there’s anyone who might be able to pull the kid out of his self-made ditch it might well be Maddie Barker , who answers a Craig’s list ad and enters the fray.
The director, whose second feature this is, after Good Boys in 2019, pushes too hard at the outset, almost as if he were afraid that people might leave or switch the channel if he didn’t hook them in immediately. To this end, he seemingly uses the ‘f’ word in the dialogue more than 20 times within a couple of minutes; who does he think he is, Richard Pryor? It gets tiresome very quickly.
Fortunately, there is considerable energy coming from every direction here and, increasingly, the focus keeps turning back to Maddie. This isn’t a film notably devoted to psychological assessments of its characters—the pitch and tone are hardly consistent, nor is there a clue about their real interests or desires, not that these things necessarily matter at all in comedies.
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