Staid parents are wittily piched against their open-minded daughtersThe 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, Pitch Perfect writer Kay Cannon’s directorial debut doesn’t exactly scream “sex positive”.
Yet, by aligning itself with its younger characters’ more open-minded sexual politics, this cheerfully ribald teen comedy updates the genre’s morally conservative convention.Best 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.
When Julie’s overbearing mother, Lisa (Leslie Mann, brilliantly manic-edged), discovers the details of their master plan, she ropes in fellow parents Mitchell (John Cena) and Hunter (Ike Barinholtz) to “cock block” the girls.
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