Jack and I laughed a lot at this silly slapstick about parents trying to prevent a prom-night virginity-losing pact made by their three high-school-age daughters. It's not as bad as we predicted, and Leslie Mann is hilarious, as always (she was last blogged for How To Be Single). The other main parents are Ike Barinholtz (most recently in Snatched), and John Cena (a WWE--World Wrestling Entertainment--star, he was in Trainwreck and Sisters, to name two that I've seen). The girls are Kathryn Newton (last blogged for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Gideon Adlon (new to me, she is Pamela Adlon's daughter), and Geraldine Viswanathan (also new to me), and the latter has many good lines. June Diane Raphael (plays single daughter Brianna in 55 episodes of Grace and Frankie, and much more) and Hannibal Buress (covered in Spider-Man: Homecoming) are among the supporting players with funny scenes.
We noted that, with only one exception (it's been a week and a half since we saw it), the characters are not mean-spirited and that makes a nice change in this day and age.
Kay Cannon (made her writing debut with Pitch Perfect) makes her directing debut here, working from a script by brothers and writing partners Brian Kehoe and Jim Kehoe
I don't remember the music by Mateo Messina (I've heard his work on Juno (2007), 23 episodes of Fairly Legal (2011-12), 13 of Growing Up Fisher (2014), 52 of Superstore (2015-18), and 44 of Casual (2015-18)). Of course, as in any teen-centered movie, there are lots of pop songs, some of which are streaming from spotify.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics, averaging 83%, and not its audiences at 51, drove us to this movie when a scheduling snafu caused us to pick something in a big hurry. No need to rush out to see it. It'll be released streaming on June 19 and on DVD July 3, 2018.
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