Directed by Tony Cervone, SCOOB! follows our favorite hero, Scooby-Doo, in the first full-length, theatrical animated Scooby-Doo adventure, which reveals how he and his best friend Shaggy became two of the world’s most beloved crime busters.
The film is streaming on Amazon and other outlets.
The story takes us back to where it all began when a young Scooby and Shaggy first meet and team up with Velma, Daphne, and Fred to launch Mystery Incorporated.
Making her directorial debut, Oliver Wilde tells the story of two girls graduating from High School. Their tale is based on getting straight A’s while keeping their noses clean until they realize they must branch out and fit in with the high school crowd.
Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are included as executive producers. When you hear the crude, crass, and dirty-mouthed girls, there are no surprises about who produced this movie. Ferrell and McKay worked on Vice together, with McKay also directing.
The studio promotes Booksmart as a wildly original, fresh, modern perspective. I beg to differ. These crude and disgusting jokes are common in Ferrell and McKay’s movies.
Booksmart is an unfiltered comedy about high school best friends and the bonds we create that last a lifetime. Capturing the spirit of being a girl in High School, the film is a coming-of-age story for a natural generation.
Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein play best friends forever. The movie includes Lisa Kudrow and Jason Sudeikis to keep it grounded. You might recognize Dever, who also starred in The Beautiful Boy, and Feldstein, who starred in Lady Bird.
The movie trailer is crude and foul-mouthed, and you might enjoy it.
Olivia Wilde talks on the red carpet at SXSW 2019 about the movie being a commitment.
On the red carpet, Feldstein talked about how special the night was because it was Wilde’s birthday and how the movie was fun.
Dever talks on the red carpet at the SXSW premiere about how much she enjoyed working with her co-star Feldstein.
These two trailers are similar, but one is called “no green band,” and the other is called “green band.” The “green band” trailer is 7 minutes longer. The differences are subtle, and if you figure it out, great!
The following featurettes show how the two girls are such good friends and make the movie seem like a lot of fun. There are crazy, unorthodox characters and a bit of truth squeezed in between.
The following movie clip shows us how it all began for these nerdy but daring high school girls.
The two “Meet the Characters” featurettes are humbling and descriptive, showing each character’s contrast. Gigi, played by Billie Loured, the daughter of Carrie Fisher, is introduced and captioned for all her zany tricks. Amy is the main character, and she and Gigi have a moment together in the movie.
With a name like Gene
The movie follows three grade-school boys who panic after being invited to his first kissing party, Max, played by Jacob Tremblay. He had never kissed a girl before, and his rites of passage had arrived.
In need of pointers on how to kiss a girl, Max and his best friends Thor and Lucas, played by Brady Noon and Keith L. Williams, come up with some bright ideas. They borrow Max’s dad’s drones to spy on a teenage couple making out next door.
But when things go ridiculously wrong, the drone is destroyed. Desperate to replace the drone, Max’s dad, played by Will Forte, gets home; the boys skip school and set off on an odyssey of bad decisions. Their odyssey involves accidentally stolen drugs, frat-house paintball, and running from both the cops and terrifying teenage girls, played by Molly Gordon and Midori Francis.
The movie is available on Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming. It did poorly at the box office, so now you can watch it at home. The bonus features are an alternative ending and ten extended or deleted scenes.
Watch the red-band trailer and decide if you can’t believe they have boys saying and doing these things.
The second trailer reiterates how disgusting this movie will be. It is funny at some points, but the raunchy jokes are gross.
The following movie clip shows how south this movie goes. There are R-rated clips, but I decided not to show them. Tactless!