The Kings of Summer
May. 31,2013 R
Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank's attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for all, he escapes to a clearing in the woods with his best friend, Patrick, and a strange kid named Biaggio. He announces that they are going to build a house there, free from responsibility and parents. Once their makeshift abode is finished, the three young men find themselves masters of their own destiny, alone in the woods.
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what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
I came across this movie on Netflix streaming. It enjoyed it because it reminds me of certain parts of my life as a teenager. I never thought about running off and being independent as a 15-yr-old but my friends and I basically went around and did all kinds of things with no parental involvement.It is a simple story, set in Ohio, two teenage boys, for different reasons, are getting more and more frustrated with the involvements of their parents. It is the end of the school session, summer break is upon them. So one of them, Joe, hatches a plan, the other goes along with him, they will go into the woods to a secluded location, build a shelter, and live off the land. Collect herbs and berries, hunt wildlife, go fishing, who needs parents and a conventional home anyhow?Nick Robinson is Joe and Gabriel Basso is his good friend Patrick. Another boy, who isn't having parental issues, Moises Arias as Biaggio, decides to join them. Everything starts off well but soon the boys find out it isn't so easy to live off the land. Favorite exchange: "Are there any bears in these woods? Hope so, a bear would feed us for a month!"Meanwhile the parents become worried and enlist the help of local authorities to find the boys, having no idea why they disappeared. Then friends show up, one is cute Erin Moriarty as cute Kelly. Joe is sweet on her and hopes they can hit it off but instead she pays attention to Patrick, naturally causing friction in the friendship.In a sense the movie is predictable, we just know it can't last, we know the boys will realize some things about life, the parents will realize some things about parenting teenagers. But it overall is a nicely enjoyable small movie.
Joe is in a hurry to grow up. He wants to build his own house, hunt his own food and live without his grumpy old dad. With two of his fellows in crime, he runs away to live in the woods at a self-built log cabin.The story is blasé enough, but the climax is well executed. What seemed caricatures from 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' in the first half, graduated with poignant moments of loneliness when Joe learns what it means to be alone. A month in the woods becomes a long internship to maturity. Friends leave him and love eludes him as he struggles to survive. In short, the film is simple yet engaging. Definitely a one time watch.
Yah when i first heard about the movie, oh gosh i was really expecting a well-made movie, best fit teen and somewhat blow me away. The movie first start slowly but interestingly. I was thinking of a whole exciting plot and hope they will go that way. And the next 80 minutes of the film, all the characters really stuck in their own cage of poorly-defined characteristic. The pace was so slow and seriously, it was made for adults above 65. And the whole things was quite dull and boring. I tried to maintain sober and awake until the very last moment of the movie. But it was absolutely disappointing, and also that house is not exquisite at all :) Not highly-recommended and MUST NOT WATCH :) 4 overall for our gorgeous Patrick and Joe. And sometimes Biaggio is funny too.
The film is dreamy, nicely shot and with good young actors. I'm sure we'll see more of the three boys in the future. But this is a film by boys, about boyscout fantasies, for boys. A princess thrown in there for them to fantasize about but obviously with no content other than being just the pretty object of the boyscouts' dreams. So tired of this. But this is what gets funding from men as usual. All the f-ing time. The Hucklberry Finn dream the funders, director, producer etcetera have about what they wish they would have dared to do when they were young. I guess it's pretty good but myself I'm soooo longing for the film, just one please, by and about young women coming of age and not please just centred about dreaming about boys. Im sure the script is out there, unfunded by the men sitting on the money. So no this is not a teen movie or a coming of age movie. It's a boys movie. And yes pretty good but had enough of them. Btw the Belagio(?) boy too weird and didn't really fit in to the rest of the story, could've been tuned down a bit. Good acting though. Liked the father role and the one playing him.
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