Here’s the formula for a successful studio comedy in 2018: A diverse group of people and personalities making fools of themselves, getting real about stuff, and telling a lot of dick jokes.
Here’s a great one from Blockers: “I’d rather eat 10 dicks than one Mounds.” This is an accurate statement, and it would’ve still been funny if Paul Rudd told it. But instead it’s more appropriately told by a teenage girl excited to learn that the condom her boyfriend will be using will taste like an Almond Joy.
Kay Cannon, who wrote all three Pitch Perfect films but is directing for the first time, gives Blockers the familiar Apatow-sheen (it’s produced by Seth Rogen), but she jumbles the cast enough that it feels fresh and doesn’t fall into the same tropes. It flips the script on the male teen sex romp and makes the parents an integral part of this ensemble comedy. It doesn’t short change any member of its talented cast, and it even finds time for some heart-tugging moments about parenting and adulthood. Continue reading “Blockers”