Three high school girls who have been best friends since kindergarten decide to make a pact to lose their virginity on prom night. Their idiotic parents become wise to their plan and set out to stop them from losing their V-card. R-rated teen comedy shenanigans ensue.
Blockers is only the slightest reworking of dozens of other similarly themed teen comedies of the ‘80s. The difference here of course is that the teens who are trying to get laid are girls. There are other concessions to modern times (one of the girls is a closeted lesbian), but it’s mostly the same old shit.
I guess it wouldn’t matter if all this was funny, but there are only a few chuckles to be had. The biggest problem is with the parents, all of whom are one-note and strangely underwritten. Leslie Mann is overprotective. Ike Barinholtz is an asshole. John Cena has muscles, but he’s actually a really wholesome and sensitive guy. None of them have much chemistry together either, which is mostly what sinks the whole deal. Kathryn Newton is decent as the ringleader of the high school friends, but like most movies she’s in, the filmmakers don’t know how to make use of her talents, so she winds up being kind of wasted. The other two girls don’t make much of an impression though, which is a shame, especially when you’re supposed to be rooting for them to pop their cherries and all.
After all the R-rated comedy antics (including Cena getting a beer bong shoved up his ass) have died down, director Kay Cannon tries to pull at the audience’s heartstrings at the end, and it honestly doesn’t work. Had we been involved in the girls’ quest to lose their virginity or had a stake in their parents trying to stop them, we might have cared. Sadly, the hour and a half that came before is just way too uneven for us to feel anything either way.
AKA: #SexPact. AKA: Cock Blockers.
I thought this one was pretty fun and i did actually care about the girls(speak for yourself, there's no "us" here just you LOL).
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