{"id":1512,"date":"2024-08-23T14:06:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/23\/incoming\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T14:06:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:06:30","slug":"incoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/us.celebrity2000.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/23\/incoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Incoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Movies won\u2019t stop pursuing the next great <em>one crazy night<\/em> adolescent comedy anytime soon. You know, that \u201cSuperbad\u201d formula obliquely indebted to much darker single-night films about hapless grown-ups, like \u201cAfter Hours.\u201d And in a way, cinema aimed towards young eyeballs is all the richer for it. Without that perpetual effort, we would have never gotten the uproarious and refreshingly sex-positive \u201cBlockers,\u201d the genially fun \u201cBooksmart,\u201d the high-adrenaline \u201cBodies Bodies Bodies\u201d or the best of them all, \u201cEmergency,\u201d a thrilling college comedy that also had something substantial to say on race, gender and class in America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncoming,\u201d from the \u201cIt\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia\u201d duo Dave and John Chernin as co-writers and directors, is the next entry in this subgenre, and it\u2019s a pretty good one, too! The jokes are funny (sometimes, laugh-out-loud funny), mostly because they\u2019re unafraid to rattle a little\u2014a quality that many recent comedies overeager to pander to the audience inauthentically can learn a thing or two from. In that, the kids in \u201cIncoming\u201d are messy, sometimes even ill-mannered, mean and clueless like we all have been in real life.<\/p>\n<p>But most importantly, \u201cIncoming\u201d scores points for its casting instincts. In the lead as Benjamin \u201cBenj\u201d Nielsen is Mason Thames, a floppy-haired, kind-eyed actor with the disarming disposition of a \u201880s teen movie star, who wouldn\u2019t feel out of place in something like \u201cAdventures in Babysitting.\u201d (On that note, the film itself has healthy doses of nods to the more vintage teen fare, too.) Geeky and well-meaning, Benji has a crush on his misanthropic big sister Alyssa\u2019s best friend Bailey (Ali Gallo and Isabella Ferreira, respectively). Meanwhile, dumped by her ex-girlfriend for another girl, Alyssa tries to get over her heartbreak in unorthodox ways and obsesses over her nose-job makeover, assuming that supposedly better looks might lead to a better life.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Benj\u2019s best friends Eddie, Connor and Danah \u201cKoosh\u201d Koushani\u2014played by the delightful trio Ramon Reed, Raphael Alejandro and Bardia Seiri, respectively\u2014have issues on the first day of the school, as well. The uber-rich Koosh is under the shadow of his older and more popular brother, desperately trying to co-host his annual back-to-school party\u2014a boozy and druggy affair. Eddie and Connor, meanwhile are hoping to keep their head low to get through the year in one piece, with Connor especially struggling to sidestep a cruel nickname the school\u2019s bullies have given him. There is of course a popular girl, too\u2014in their school, it\u2019s Katrina (Loren Gray), someone the boys would do anything to be cool enough to hang with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movies won\u2019t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy anytime soon. You know, that \u201cSuperbad\u201d formula obliquely indebted to much darker single-night films about hapless grown-ups, like \u201cAfter Hours.\u201d And in a way, cinema aimed towards young eyeballs is all the richer for it. 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