Mind cells shall be misplaced as BFFs leaps from one extremely silly prank after one other in a senseless comedy that does admittedly get a couple of massive laughs. Filmmakers Constantine Paraskevopoulos and Adam Rifkin pull double obligation as former frat bros who get into an escalating prank battle with severe penalties. They’re joined within the buffoonery by a famed ensemble who will need to have been consuming whereas filming. The witless narrative might need been palatable with out the frenetic enhancing and grating soundtrack, nevertheless it’s laborious to get pleasure from a movie if you really feel prefer it’s attacking your ears and eyeballs. Fortunately, the runtime is mercifully transient.
The story takes place in Phoenix, Arizona, the place dorky insurance coverage govt Jerry Klugman (Paraskevopoulos, in fairly probably the worst wig in cinema historical past) will get yelled at by his a-hole boss, Mr. Coogan (Terrence Howard), about firing an worker. Jerry initially does not have the nerve, however forces himself to do it after his job is threatened. Jerry then returns dwelling to Dora (Jennifer Morrison), his pregnant spouse, and a big bundle. He opens it and will get a lewd shock that is actually lubed. Jerry’s disgusted, however Dora humorously says it might really assist. Who would ship one thing so gross?
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- Launch Date
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September 26, 2025
- Director
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Constantine Paraskevopoulos
Jerry will get one other gag present and eventually figures out the perpetrator: Henry Hartman (Rifkin), his finest good friend from faculty, needs to pay him a go to with a brand new girlfriend. Jerry hosts them for dinner, the place Henry continues together with his pranks. It is all in good enjoyable, a practice between besties, and now Jerry is scheming to return the favor. The social gathering takes a contented flip when Henry publicizes he is proposed to the attractive Anita (Aníta Briem); it is congrats throughout, till Anita will get Jerry by herself.
The pranks proceed at Jerry’s work till he receives one thing really disturbing. Henry’s lastly pushed it too far, and Jerry goes to his job on the Division of Homeland Safety to cease this nonsense. Henry swears it wasn’t him, however has one thing else to speak in confidence to Jerry: He thinks Anita is dishonest on him, and needs to make use of his job to search out her secret love curiosity.
Terrence Howard as Mr. Coogan
Rifkin (The Chase, Detroit Rock Metropolis) wrote the script for BFFs, whereas Paraskevopoulos directs. They purposely painting Henry and Jerry as extraordinarily unlikable leads: Henry’s an obnoxious jerk with no redeeming qualities, and Jerry, although quiet and unassuming, is the sort of man who has zero qualms about flirting together with his finest good friend’s fiancé when his spouse is pregnant. They’re scumbags that the viewers cannot stand, which is the objective. You do not care what these clowns do to one another as a result of they each deserve it. That works in idea, however fails within the execution.
Paraskevopoulos, a well known author, music video director and business determine, goes enhancing overboard in his characteristic debut. Each scene is a barrage of fast cuts; that is accomplished as a part of the movie’s upbeat tempo, nevertheless it’s visually jarring and actually turns into annoying. One of the best scenes are those the place Paraskevopoulos simply sticks with the grasp shot and does not deviate, since you get to truly take in the inane plot as an alternative of a tiresome enhancing frenzy. Paraskevopoulos additionally makes use of clunky green-screen backgrounds to exchange units, for each budgetary and timing causes. They’re clearly faux, which is a part of the juvenile humor. However the joke does not land, and makes the movie appear much more newbie.
Nick Stahl as Safety “Man”
Now let’s deal with the thumping rating. RZA is an govt producer on BFFs. There is a rap theme track that is performed consistently all through the movie. One or twice is doable; it has a good social gathering beat, and is not horrible. However to listen to it on repeat scene after scene is close to tortuous. That is along with the opposite music and loopy sound results, which flip the movie into basically a long-form music video with bits of performing interspersed. Which may have labored, if the completed product wasn’t so irritating.
BFFs has a much more intricate plot than anticipated, because the prank thread evolves into one thing extra devious that is a part of the movie’s purported thriller. Rifkin goes into layers of convolution that water down the humor that hits. He would have been higher served to simply follow the sophomoric shenanigans and settle for these laughs; including in a deeper plot twist with much more zany and witless characters is like pulling taffy right into a noodle. BFFs has a brief 80-minute runtime, however appears for much longer as a result of there’s a lot to resolve ultimately. It is laborious to say “much less is extra” in a sub-90-minute movie, however astonishingly, that is the case right here.
BFFs pushes the viewers right into a nook, when it may have gotten away with being far much less abrasive. Sure, there are laugh-out-loud bits, as a few of the raunchy and gross pranks elicit the anticipated response. It is simply every little thing else that is missing.
BFFs is a manufacturing of Ammni Studios, RZA Productions and Digital Ignition Leisure. It was launched theatrically on September twenty sixth from Seismic Releasing.