Film Review - Incoming
August 23, 2024
It’s hard to be a teen comedy these days. The adolescent experience has changed so radically since the subgenre’s heyday in the 1980s, and it’s difficult to understand if audiences really want to endure the troubles of being a 2024 kid. Instead of going the John Hughes route like many other moviemakers, writer/directors Dave and John Chernin retain some hard edges of tomfoolery with “Incoming,” which hopes to deliver a raucous good time to its intended audience. Sweetness is attempted, but crudeness is mostly favored in the material, which follows the exploits of four high school freshmen trying to navigate a particularly active party night. Originality is limited to a few ideas, with the rest of the endeavor sticking with ugly encounters and dim passes at humor, with the Chernins looking to create something short and broad for streaming audiences. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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