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Film review

The Kings of Summer 2013

Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts95 minComedy · Drama

Three restless teenagers run away to the woods for the summer, determined to escape their parents and live by their own rules. In a hidden clearing, they build a makeshift house and attempt to create an independent life, testing their friendship, freedom, and the challenges of living off the land.

Watched 9 September 2023
Not sure about this one, it was alright, kinda funny but a bit dumb, then the main character just decided to be a dick. If this film didn’t have such forced character development and such a terrible romantic plot/ love triangle I might have liked it a bit more, it did make me laugh and the acting was good, some how they managed to get (every sitcom actor ever) to be in it who I quite like so that was cool. Just made me cringe after he started treating his friend and the girl like shit. He’s a bad person and not likeable at all. Also they didn’t treat their parents too nice either, feel like they should have spent more time focusing on the father son relationship and him dealing with his mothers death instead of them making him a jealous incel.  Biaggio was funny, made me laugh a lot, maybe the best character, I liked Nick Offerman too. Me and my friend were tryna figure out where we recognised biaggio from and then we agreed he was that one guy from that one Disney show.  I may miss some but as far as I can tell we have actors in this film from:  It’s always sunny in Philadelphia  Silicon Valley Parks and rec  Arrested development  Community  Brooklyn nine nine The boys  Disney show  Hannibal Buress  And I’m sure more, So half the film was just me and myself recognising someone and going “ayyyyy”.  Yeah but no this definitely could have been a lot better, cinematography wasn’t bad at parts and it was quite fun, just got a bit weird towards the end. They built a house tho that was cool. Also pretty impressive that he managed to learn everything about snakes after spending a week in the woods. Turned into bear grylls.  Did you know that if you chop off a snakes head it’s venom will attract other snakes?  6.5/10 The 20th film I’ve watched with Marcus Chan

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