Cannon offers a range of vantage points, sometimes jackhammering this home a little hard in the dialogue. Mitchell is overprotective and in denial over his daughter growing up. Instead, they find Austin's parents Ron and Cathy engaging in sex games. None of which is to say the film is lacking in pace, energy or laughs. In a mid-credits scene, Mitchell and Marcie are playing the blindfold sex game that Austin's parents had been playing earlier – only to be found by a shocked Kayla.

Single mother Lisa Decker drops off her young daughter, Julie, for her first day of kindergarten. There are jokes about manbuns, a sly cameo from comedian Miles Robbins, Geraldine Viswanathan, Kathryn Newton, Graham Phillips, Gideon Adlon and Jimmy Bellinger in rhe ‘cheerfully ribald’ Blockers.Miles Robbins, Geraldine Viswanathan, Kathryn Newton, Graham Phillips, Gideon Adlon and Jimmy Bellinger in rhe ‘cheerfully ribald’ Blockers.he parents of three teenage girls set out to scupper their daughters’ plans to lose their virginity on prom night: looking at its bare bones plot, As they follow the girls from party to party, it becomes clear that each parent has their own motivation. Hunter shares his intuition that Sam is gay, but at the first party, he sees her force herself to kiss Chad. Three months later, Sam and Kayla drive with Julie to California. Wanting to protect Sam from doing something she doesn't want to do, he joins Lisa and Mitchell's crusade. At the hotel, a drunk Sam goes to bed with Chad but decides she does not want to have sex, though she does give him a When Mitch finds Kayla with Connor, she is initially furious, but ultimately appeased by her father's good intentions. After some awkward moments, Ron reveals that the after-party is at a lake house, but refuses to give the address. Movie reviews for Blockers. Praising the themes of the film, Ann Hornaday from The underlying values of "Blockers" are refreshingly healthy and affirming, proclaimed not only by Kayla's pointedly levelheaded mom ( Between the script and directing on Blockers, the movie offers something for every sense of humor, from raunchy comedy that includes Cena butt chugging 40 oz of beer to quotable one-liners. Twelve years later, Julie shares with Kayla and Sam that she plans to lose her virginity to her boyfriend Austin at prom. Staid parents are wittily piched against their open-minded daughtersBest friends Julie (Kathryn Newton), Kayla (Geraldine Viswanathan, a swaggering comedic presence) and Sam (Gideon Adlon) are the smothered princess, the stoner jock and the closeted goth respectively, and headed for college – but not before making #SexPact2018. Review: The Kids Are All Right in ‘Blockers.’ The Parents Are Dopes. Lisa and Mitchell rush to stop their daughters, but Hunter tries to stop them.

Lisa sneaks into Julie and Austin's room and, realizing how much the two clearly love each other, she sneaks unnoticed, leaving the two alone. Debut director Kay Cannon, who wrote the three Pitch Perfect movies, keeps her comedy really tight. The three parents hear Julie's laptop and intercept the messages. Does Blockers deliver? Read the Empire review. Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com gave the film 2 1/2 stars, saying that it is "the kind of comedy one could stumble upon late at night on HBO and thoroughly enjoy, but it strains under the weight of its tonal inconsistencies in a movie theater. As they drive away, Lisa starts receiving the girl's group text, filled with plans to get drugs and have condom-less sex. The girls then head to the prom, texting each other about their sex pact.

She watches on as Julie is joined by two other girls, Kayla and Sam. Kayla pledges to do so as well, though on a casual basis with her lab partner, Connor.

The trio realizes that Mitchell's wife Marcie may have it, and go back to his house. Conversely, that range of comedy means there will undoubtedly be something in Blockers that misses for each viewer, but the movie is quick to move on.

When Julie’s overbearing mother, Lisa (Their anxieties range from everyday puritanism (Mitchell) to the fear that they’ll be tricked by young love (Lisa) to worries about peer pressure (Hunter).