Blockers 2018

     Single mother Lisa Decker drops off her daughter Julie for her first day of kindergarten.  Right away, two other girls, Kayla and Sam, join Julie in front of the school.  They become friends for the rest of their school years.   Lisa meets their fathers, Kayla’s dad Mitchell and Sam’s dad Hunter.  They also become close friends throughout the school years.  Now it’s senior year and the girls are going to prom.  Lisa, Mitchell and Hunter see some of the texts the girls are sending to each other.  The subject matter leads them to begin following the girls instead of letting them go along with their plans for prom night.

     I thought this was funny and the parents get into more trouble than the girls!!  Lisa is in denial that she is going to really miss Julie.  She’s been worrying about the day Julie goes to college for 18 years.  Mitchell is overprotective and he wants to keep Kayla a little girl forever.  Hunter carries a lot of guilt because he feels he neglected Sam after his bitter separation from her mother.  I didn’t know how this was going was going to end?  3 1/2* (I liked this movie)

 

102 min, Comedy directed by Kay Cannon with Leslie Mann, John Cena, Ike Barinholtz, Kaathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan, Gideon Adlon, Ramona Young, Graham Phillips, Miles Robbins, Jimmy Bellinger, Colton Dunn, Sarayu Blue, Gary Cole Gina Gershon, June Diane Raphael.

Note:  Imdb 6.2 out of 10, 83% critic 50% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2 1/2*, Amazon 3.7* out of 5* with 351 reviews, Metacritic 69 out of 100 with 46 critics 6.1 out of 10 with 109 reviews, Common Sense Media 3* out of 5*, age 17+, positive 3*, role models 3*, violence 3*, sex 5*, language 5*, consumerism 2*, drinking drugs, smoking 4*, The Guardian 4* out of 5* Simran Hans.

Special Note:  Filmed in Atlanta, Georgia.  The hotel in the film is the Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta.  The original script had three fathers as the leads.  One father was changed to a mother with Leslie Mann in this role.  Gross was worldwide of $93 million with a production budget of $21 million for a profit of $72 million.