Project Pay Day

You say that, Jaz Goodreau, but you look like you are at least 30.

I don't know why a lot of studios do this, but it is weirding me out.

I thought this was a really fun movie to watch. Brings me back to older movies like Ferris Buellers day off, The Sandlot, and The Goonies. This is just a nice, fun, summer movie to watch with the family. The cast was awesome as well!

Everyone remembers having to find summer work and this is a fun romp through teenage summers!

Easy summer film, far by high expectations but enough Nice for pretty realistic portrait of teens after high school, the plans for full last vacantion an a chain of lies for save apparencences. In final, a precious lesson about responsability. Decent acting, nice story, political correctness drops and imaginative solutions. Off course, vulnerable to naif adults and the bad luck .

The details - motivational course as example- are pillars to sustain the superficial story. So laughts, adventures, some ideas with not expected final and teenagers looking for fun of last vacantion before college. Pretty funny !

An 80's style adventure (i.e. Not everybody is on their iphone all the time) about finding an old town treasure. No spoilers here, but lets just say my kids figured out where the treasure is in the first 10 minutes of the film, so you can see it's not a very deep adventure movie. Characters development is ok, the parents are portrayed as caricatures as always, but unfortunately, regardless of that, there are places when the dialogues are very cringey, so much so, that a good director should have asked for a writing change and a retake.

The movie is not romantically moving and doesn't make you laugh, cry or fright at any point which for me is the biggest opportunity miss, it is just too flat and doesn't take any risks. This is the main reason why it is not at the level of the old 80's movies (Goonies, Stand by me, Short circuit...). When I rate this movie I do not refer to it as a "summer fix" but rather, I look at is as any other production value, writing and acting, this is just not a 8/10 kind of creation, it is more like a 6, but if your entire family want to watch something that is safe for any age this could be on your list.

Exact score: 58 / 100.