Annoying. Dumb Stereotypes

Rating: 4/10 (3 January 2018)

Positves; the actress playing the one girl in it. Negatives: virtually everything else. Every other character is an obvious, obtuse stereotype both written and played with virtually no subtlety. By far the most glaring and obnoxious of these is the bespectacled kid who incessantly (literally INCESSANTLY) does nothing but make supposedly funny sexual remarks every time he opens his mouth. It's weak, lazy, unrealistic and thoroughly aggravating. Of course, some kids that age attempt crude humor, but no one does it non-stop like a hack morning DJ. It being completely witless makes it all the worse. The hypochondriac kid is almost as bad and just as hackneyed. Making characters lazy types rather than human beings is cheap and speaks to a lack of talent on the creators part, as well as a lack of respect for the potential audience. This is an R-rated film written for eight-year-olds.