Isn’t it about time we got a female version of PORKY’S?
Maybe not, but that’s what we’re getting anyway.
This raunchy comedy, co-produced by Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg, is called BLOCKERS.
Why?
Because parents including Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz and WWE star John Cena stumble onto their daughters’ pact to lose their virginity on prom night—which is right around the corner.
Not if their overprotective parents have anything to say about it!
What follows is a war between the older generation and three best friends since childhood who want it in the worst way on their big night.
Ironically it’s the girls who are the brightest part of this very R-rated comedy.
Their dates/boyfriends are your typical goofball guys, their parents loving of course, but totally out of touch.
So what does BLOCKERS actually stand for?
“Cock blocking” by their parents.
BLOCKERS is the latest adult-comedy to target a mostly woman audience that all began in 2011 with BRIDESMAIDS and has progressed down the gutter with just about everything in the genre that’s followed.
It’s referred to in the biz as “feminine raunch” and has (surprisingly) become an accepted norm today.
I’m no prude so yes, I found several scenes very funny. As did most of our screening audience. It’s directed by first-timer Kay Cannon.
For the record, the MPAA’s Ratings Board defines its R-classification for BLOCKERS the following way:
“Rated R for crude and sexual content and language throughout, teen partying and some graphic nudity.”
Consider yourselves forewarned!
My graDE: C+
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Well, we can all take solace in the MPAA’s ratings for this grotesque, cinematic fall of man…, er…, woman. Those ratings, pored over intently (Thank God) by so many concerned parents, will no doubt save many of our children from exposure to another reputable addition to the cinematic Western Canon.
Oh yeah, that’s right, the kids will no doubt be dropped in front of the theater and left to their own devices, literally and metaphorically, while Hollywood cranks out, while we sleep, more and more of this shit on a shingle.
Yummmmm, Yummmmmm…..
At some point, our kids will, in a “Body Acceptance” fever dream come true, see the Overton Window shift as quickly as it did for Transsexuals to the point, where our kids can be proud of canker sores as big as sand traps growing on their genitalia and post them on Facebook for all to see.
Brave New World.