By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Kay Cannon
Cast: Leslie Mann, John Cena, Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan, Gideon Adlon, Graham Phillips, Miles Robbins, Jimmy Bellinger, June Diane Raphael, Jake Picking, Hannibal Buress, Sarayu Blue, Gary Cole, Colton Dunn and Gina Gershon.
Rating: Very Good.
Kay Cannon makes her directorial debut with “Blockers”, a comedy with a lot of sparks that brings entertaining results.
The movie tells the story of Julie (Kathryn Newton), Kayla (Geraldine Viswanathan) and Sam (Gideon Adlon); three childhood friends who are about to graduate from highschool and decide they want to loose their virginity on prom night.
Eventually Julie´s mother Lisa (Leslie Mann) finds out about this plan and tells Kayla´s father Mitchell (John Cena) and Sam´s annoying father Hunter (Ike Barinholtz) who decides to join.
Now both parents will do anything to stop their respective daughters on loosing their virginity before it´s too late.
“Blockers” is a movie that follows the rules of a good comedy. One of the elements that I do like is the fact that has an excellent time and the characters that are involved, in this case the parents and their children are likable from beginning to end.
Both Brian and Jim Kehoe crafted a brilliant screenplay and you can tell that they were influenced in movies like “American Pie” and some of the John Hughes films from the eighties like “Sixteen Candles” and some from “The Breakfast Club” due to the characters they have both created here.
Another factor that made “Blockers” a very good movie is the fact that all of the characters have a very difficult time in trying to reach their goal. In movies like this there could be a tendency that the characters can be annoying and everything seem to look very easy in order to reach their goals. Here is not the case and “Blockers” goes back to old school comedy and I am very pleased to see a movie that is different and true to itself.
“Blockers” is one of the biggest surprises of this year. I highly recommend it and I can guarantee you that you are going to burst in laughter once you watch this movie from beginning to end.