When three parents discover their daughters’ pact to lose their virginity at prom, they launch a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal.
Blockers blocked out all creativity by relying on clumsy clichés and profane predictability. Another film about glorious prom night, losing one's cursed virginity and having the time of your laugh as you drink, consume baked drugs and unleash visualised vomit. Yes, we've seen it all before, a precedent that this comedy unfortunately is unable to improve on. However, despite the film rarely being funny, it's the adult perspective that truly captivates when undergoing meaningful heartfelt conversations that appeared out of thin air. Stumbling across their daughters' group chat, which consists of a sex pact being produced, the parents spend the night trying to find them so that they can intervene before the love-making begins.
Before the parents set out on their 'Fast & Furious' escapade, you know exactly how the night will pan out. Teenagers being teenagers, parents get involved, they argue it out, mother and father understand, and they all go drinking in an exquisite bar. Predictable in every aspect. Yet Blockers isn't trying to reinvent the genre. Instead, it attempts to embrace its simple narrative structure and focus on the profanity and obscenity. After all, watching a blindfolded couple reignite their sex life is what entices audience members in today's society. It receives a few chuckles here and there, mostly from the lump of muscle that is Cena (although I couldn't see him most of the time...), but profane humour can only go so far before it becomes exhausting. The insurmountable amount of flesh, ball sacks and cock-a-doodle-doos was questionably tedious, providing cheap laughs.
The "comedic" tone is juxtaposed by several heartfelt moments, particularly when the parents unleash their thoughts as to why they're trying to "help" their daughters, that manage to bring some needed character development. Alas, the emotion vanishes during the next scene when we're back onto watching Cena chug alcohol through a specific orifice. There's no resonance, which is a shame as it made the mediocre writing noticeable. Still, Blockers is fine. Nothing memorable or hilarious, but pleasingly raunchy.
