When a gang of goofy boys are invited to a spin-the-bottle party, their research into the mysteries of kissing goes horribly wrong
Some massive laughs, a huge Stephen Merchant cameo and the most impressive school play on film since Wes Anderson’s Rushmore are all on offer in this very funny teen – or rather tween –
comedy from screenwriters Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, with Stupnitsky directing. Both are script veterans of America’s The Office on TV.
It’s a bad-taste kids’ adventure that welds the spirit of The Goonies and Stranger Things with Superbad and Booksmart; the movie rests on the time-honoured premise of our young heroes’ obsession with a supercool party but ups the ante considerably in terms of chancy material and by virtue of the fact that these kids are pretty young: around 10 or 11.