xy_n I watched this because I have a soft spot for any of the Culkin kids. IMDb listed this movie as a comedy, so when I watched it I was ready to have some light hearted laughs at a seemingly cheesy film. What started off as I expected ended up leaving me devastated. The four boys deal with the difficulties of young adult life, interest in girls, smoking and drinking, growing apart, and a fantasy world which reflects their interest in comics. (It softens the blows of their lives by mimicking it and helping them cope.) It reminds me a lot of The Virgin Suicides with the tone it sets, and almost similar to Wristcutters: A Love Story.It's definitely a good film and worth the watch as long as you understand that it isn't going to leave you happier after watching it.

Mike-689 Not sure what I was expecting when I started to watch this coming-of-age drama, but it certainly wasn't what I got. It doesn't quite know what it wants to be, beginning as it does as a comedy, developing into a Stand By Me-type rite-of-passage drama and culminating in tragedy, having embraced comic-book animation along the way. It tries too hard to be too many things, which is a shame because there is a lot of good stuff here. It will remain one of the more curious choices for Jodie Foster, cast as a hard-line nun, but perhaps this is explained by the fact that she also co-produced. Well acted by all the young cast though and worth a look.

Nobody Special Okay, so I avoided seeing this movie for YEARS because everyone said it sucked. I read the book, though, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and I was always curious about the movie. I should have listened. The setting, characters, and general mood of the movie was so dishonest to the book. Jodie Foster comes off as severely out of place. The boys in the movie seem to be way to unreal also. I'm not just talking about bad acting. There's like this film over them of boys that are just a little too perfectly placed. What's really great about the book is that the boys are total dumbasses, but not in a way that any other boy that age isn't. In the movie, though, it's very apparent that a script is being read. All that glorious, natural dumbass behavior turns to pre-fabricated pulp and makes me a little ill. As far as movies go, it would be okay to watch if say, nothing else were on and both your arms were broken and your legs and you had nothing to do but watch television and thank God that your parents didn't send you to Catholic school.

MLDinTN but I didn't like the animation thrown in for no reason. It is about a group of rebellous Catholic school boys, who play pranks and create a comic book where the villain is a nun at their school. I guess the main plot points involve one of the boys getting a girlfriend and the group attempts to kidnap a cougar for some reason. That I never got because I never understood what they were going to do with the cougar. And the most reckless of the bunch gets what's coming to him concerning the cougar.Jodie Foster is basically a cameo because her character doesn't do much. I guess she agreed to play the part to bring publicity to the film since it had such a small budget.FINAL VERDICT: It was decent. If you like independent films, check it out, but don't expect a lot of action or flashiness.