Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

TxMike I came across this movie on Netflix streaming. It enjoyed it because it reminds me of certain parts of my life as a teenager. I never thought about running off and being independent as a 15-yr-old but my friends and I basically went around and did all kinds of things with no parental involvement.It is a simple story, set in Ohio, two teenage boys, for different reasons, are getting more and more frustrated with the involvements of their parents. It is the end of the school session, summer break is upon them. So one of them, Joe, hatches a plan, the other goes along with him, they will go into the woods to a secluded location, build a shelter, and live off the land. Collect herbs and berries, hunt wildlife, go fishing, who needs parents and a conventional home anyhow?Nick Robinson is Joe and Gabriel Basso is his good friend Patrick. Another boy, who isn't having parental issues, Moises Arias as Biaggio, decides to join them. Everything starts off well but soon the boys find out it isn't so easy to live off the land. Favorite exchange: "Are there any bears in these woods? Hope so, a bear would feed us for a month!"Meanwhile the parents become worried and enlist the help of local authorities to find the boys, having no idea why they disappeared. Then friends show up, one is cute Erin Moriarty as cute Kelly. Joe is sweet on her and hopes they can hit it off but instead she pays attention to Patrick, naturally causing friction in the friendship.In a sense the movie is predictable, we just know it can't last, we know the boys will realize some things about life, the parents will realize some things about parenting teenagers. But it overall is a nicely enjoyable small movie.

Michael Radny I think every kid had thought about running away when they felt life got too tough. Well, this film takes that idea and puts it full of creative and wonderful ideas. For those who like to get their hands dirty, they would love the nostalgia feeling of the house they created and for those of you who are still young, this film may just inspire. Though it's not very complex, but deals with complex themes, The Kings Of Summer isn't something that will win any awards, but is great to kick the heels up and watch to kill the time.A great little movie with some really fun aspects to it. Nothing too crazy happens, but it is something you could have some fun watching.

lucasclough99 There's not a lot I can say about this movie just that it is a MASTERPIECE. This is a movie that once watched is hard to stop watching, mainly because of the pure genius that was produced. The movie can resemble typical teenager's life that wants to spend time with their friends, being independent and mainly rule at the same time. The movie includes comedy, adventure and drama all rolled into one.Jordan Vogt-Roberts was a first time director when making this movie and what a way to kick of his career with a movie like The Kings of Summer. He got the characters spot on in this movie and choose the perfect actors to play the characters; the three main characters are Joe Toy (Nick Robinson), Patrick Keenan (Gabriel Basso) and Biaggio (Moises Arias). He didn't just get the characters/actors spot on he got the set of where they were filming in the woods perfectly and makes me especially want to build my own house there.Joe has just finished his freshman year in high school and is about to spend his summer with his father Frank Toy (Nick Offerman). Frank makes Joe's life a misery and Joe dislikes him this plays a main part in Joe's run away. Joe's best friend Patrick lives with his mum and dad (played by Megan Mullally and Marc Evan Jackson) Patrick seriously dislikes living with his parents mainly because they control every bit of his life by being overprotective. Not wanting to be controlled by their parents both of them decide to run off into the woods and build their own house gather the food themselves and follow their own rules without know one knowing especially their parents. It wasn't just them two though that ran away from home their strange friend Biaggio also comes along not knowing why he ran off. Wanting company the three decide to have a house warming dinner with Kelly (Erin Moriarty) and a couple other friends as well. Joe deeply loves Kelly but she doesn't feel the same way as him.The Kings of Summer makes a great movie due to the great acting and the storyline. I highly recommend watching this as it will be a movie you wouldn't think twice of watching it again.

BittanyG The film is dreamy, nicely shot and with good young actors. I'm sure we'll see more of the three boys in the future. But this is a film by boys, about boyscout fantasies, for boys. A princess thrown in there for them to fantasize about but obviously with no content other than being just the pretty object of the boyscouts' dreams. So tired of this. But this is what gets funding from men as usual. All the f-ing time. The Hucklberry Finn dream the funders, director, producer etcetera have about what they wish they would have dared to do when they were young. I guess it's pretty good but myself I'm soooo longing for the film, just one please, by and about young women coming of age and not please just centred about dreaming about boys. Im sure the script is out there, unfunded by the men sitting on the money. So no this is not a teen movie or a coming of age movie. It's a boys movie. And yes pretty good but had enough of them. Btw the Belagio(?) boy too weird and didn't really fit in to the rest of the story, could've been tuned down a bit. Good acting though. Liked the father role and the one playing him.