New Good Boys red band trailer teases endless adolescent vulgarity

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

For so long actors like Seth Rogen have been dominating the R-rated comedy landscape, but now they’re passing things off to the new generation, just way, way, WAY too early. The new movie GOOD BOYS finds three sixth-grade boys getting into all sorts of inappropriate hijinks and throwing out curse words like they’re Halloween candy, and the new red band trailer holds none of it back and teases an endlessly vulgar and hilarious adventure.

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The movie first premiered at South by Southwest earlier this year and received mostly positive reviews, with some critics praising the non-stop laughs and sweetness of the story. Young stars Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams, and Brady Noon are turning in some brilliant work as the foul-mouthed grade-schoolers, unflinchingly committing to the adult content that, as Rogen says in the into, even they aren’t old enough to watch. But as we all know from being that age, the things we aren’t supposed to watch are made all the sweeter because of that.

As for the trailer, there's not that much more to see than in the first series of trailers, though this one does tease a hilarious interaction with Thor's (Noon) sister at the start. But do the trailers really need to show more than what we've already seen? The first red band was hysterical and did more than enough to sell people on the concept, so really anything more is just bonus debauchery. Directed by Gene Stupnitsky (THE OFFICE) and written by him and Lee Eisenberg, the movie also stars Will Forte (MACGRUBER), Retta (PARKS AND REC), Sam Richardson (VEEP), Molly Gordon (BOOKSMART), Lil Rel Howery (GET OUT) and more.

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Here's the synopsis:

After being invited to his first kissing party, 12-year-old Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is panicking because he doesn’t know how to kiss. Eager for some pointers, Max and his best friends Thor (Brady Noon, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) and Lucas (Keith Williams, Fox’s The Last Man On Earth) decide to use Max’s dad’s drone – which Max is forbidden to touch – to spy (they think) on a teenage couple making out next door.

But when things go ridiculously wrong, the drone is destroyed. Desperate to replace it before Max’s dad (Will Forte, The Last Man on Earth) gets home, the boys skip school and set off on an odyssey of epically bad decisions involving some accidentally stolen drugs, frat-house paintball, and running from both the cops and terrifying teenage girls (Life of the Party’s Molly Gordon and Ocean’s Eight’s Midori Francis).

GOOD BOYS is in theaters August 16.