The sex pact
The Sex Pact (Original Title: Blockers ) is an American comedy film from 2018 . It is the directorial debut of the screenwriter Kay Cannon , who wrote the scripts for the Pitch Perfect films, among other things . The main roles of the production is from Leslie Mann , Ike Barinholtz and John Cena played.
The original title blocker refers to the English word cockblocker (literally cock blocker ), which refers to a person who prevents others by an action intentionally or accidentally from sex to have. On the movie poster one is for this reason Hahn (English cock shown).
The film grossed nearly $ 94 million at box offices worldwide at a production cost of $ 21 million.
The Sex Pact premiered on March 10, 2018 at the South by Southwest film festival and hit US cinemas on April 6 of the same year. In Germany, the film was shown for the first time in cinemas six days later, on April 12th.
action
Five-year-old Julie quickly makes friends with two other girls, Kayla and Sam, on her first day of elementary school . Julie's single mother Lisa soon meets Mitchell and Hunter, the other girls' fathers. The adults, like their children, become good friends too.
Twelve years later, the three friends are about to graduate from high school . On the day of the prom , the three make a kind of pact: They want to lose their virginity that evening . Julie wants to be deflowered by her boyfriend Austin. Kayla may not have a boyfriend, but plans to have sex with Connor, her partner from chemistry class who also makes drugs for the first time. Sam also takes part, although she is a lesbian and has not yet come out , as the three friends will go to different colleges and she therefore hopes that the friendship will continue through the shared experience. As a partner, she chooses the inconspicuous Chad, who always wears a fedora .
Before the ball, Lisa holds a party in her house for the students and parents of the senior year. Mitchell notes that she recently dropped out of contact with him. Hunter, who is ostracized by the other parents for having an affair and divorced from Sam's mother Brenda, comes to Lisa's house uninvited and lets the three girls drive to their ball in a stretch limousine . When Lisa and Mitchell find text messages on Julie's laptop, they cannot interpret them as they consist only of emojis . Hunter helps them decipher it, which is how the parents find out about the pact. Horrified, Lisa and Mitchell want to dissuade their daughters from the plan. Hunter accompanies the two to the prom, although he cannot understand their fears, as he suspects Sam's homosexuality and is therefore not worried about his daughter. But when he sees at school how Sam visibly has to force himself to kiss Chad, he supports Lisa and Mitchell.
The kids and their dates leave the ball for an after party. Lisa, Mitchell and Hunter then drive to Austin's house because it is supposed to take place there. Instead, they catch Austin's parents Ron and Cathy red-handed . Ron reveals that the after-party will be held at a lake house, but refuses to give them the address. So they go to Mitchell's wife Marcie. Although she knows the location of the party, she does not name it either because, unlike her husband, she is not critical of the young people's plan. Mitchell eventually manages to distract his wife, whereby the parents find out the address. However, the after-party is broken up by the police, which is why the young people flee from the police in the limousine.
During the chase, the parents exchange their motives: Mitchell is overprotective and sees Connor as a danger to Kayla, whom he wants to protect with all possible means, Hunter feels guilty because he neglected Sam during the separation from Brenda and saved her from it want to do something she doesn't really want. Lisa is sad that Julie will go to distant UCLA with Austin and she will be alone. For this reason, Lisa calls her daughter, and there is a heated argument, during which Julie admits that she wants to get as far away from Lisa as possible.
The parents have a car accident shortly afterwards, in which their vehicle is badly damaged and is no longer drivable. They allow themselves to be brought back to Austin's house and plan to steal Austin's parents' cellphone and find out where the girls are. Mitchell sneaks into the house and bursts into an erotic game that Ron and Cathy play blindfolded. Mitchell threatens to be discovered, but Hunter comes to his aid in good time, and the parents finally find out that the next destination of the teenagers is a hotel.
Sam is already drunk there, but eventually decides not to have sex with Chad. Instead, she agrees to masturbate him manually , causing him to ejaculate prematurely . Kayla creates a romantic ambience for Austin and Julie in their room before preparing for intercourse with Connor. However, she changes her mind and wants to get to know Connor better before she sleeps with him. The two agree to postpone sex, but Kayla allows him to give her oral pleasure.
The parents finally arrive at the hotel. Mitchell finds his daughter and forcibly throws Connor out of the room, which initially annoys Kayla. The two speak out, Kayla thanks him for his good intentions and is able to convince her father that she is now an adult and can make decisions on her own, which Mitchell accepts after some hesitation. Sam does not want to speak to her father at first, when Hunter apologizes to her for his frequent absence in recent years, the two make up. Then she comes out to him, which touches him very much because she told him first and not her mother. Lisa secretly sneaks into Austin's room, where she hides under the bed. When she sees how happy Julie is with her boyfriend, she goes unnoticed while the two have sex.
Julie, Kayla and Sam dance together in the lobby. Julie tells her friends that while her first time was over quickly and uncomfortable, she still liked it. When Sam sees her crush Angelica, she comes out to her friends, who react very positively to her confession. They leave the two of them alone, Sam and Angelica confess their feelings for each other and kiss.
At the hotel bar, Lisa Mitchell admits that she has turned away from him, as their mutual friendship reminded her of Julie's childhood, which is now over, which she found difficult to cope with. She promises Mitchell to spend more time with him again. When Hunter wants to say goodbye and leave, the two ask him to stay longer and revive their friendship with him.
Three months later, Kayla, Sam and Connor accompany Julie to California . When the three of them have already left, Lisa notices that she has been added to the WhatsApp group of teenagers. There the girls write that they use marijuana and cocaine during their trip and will not use contraception . Immediately Lisa, Mitchell and Hunter want to go to stop their children when they write a text message and tell their parents that the message was just a joke.
In a post-credit scene , Mitchell and Marcie are playing the same sex game Ron and Cathy do in their home. During her game, Kayla enters the room unsuspecting and is shocked to see her parents, which in turn also shocked them.
reception
criticism
In the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), the film received a rating of 6.2 out of ten stars based on 53,304 votes. At Rotten Tomatoes , the production achieved a rating of 83 percent from critics and 50 percent from viewers. The critics' rating on Metacritic is 69 out of 100, the rating of the viewers 6.1 out of 10.
“The premise of The Sex Pact is very simple - and leads to a mix of coming of age, slapstick and gross-out. In some passages the film is unquestionably too stupid and silly to pass as good entertainment; yet he does not repeat the many mistakes made by several other mainstream Hollywood productions. "
According to Tim Lindemann from Epd Film, the film tries “within the scope of its possibilities to create a more realistic and at the same time friendlier image of youthful sexuality, which not only oscillates between the extremes of disgust and kitschy romantic perfection”, as is the case in many previous films of the genre which were mainly staged by male directors and in which boys are the focus. Kay Cannon also tries to use a "less spiteful tone", since none of the young people is ridiculed for his appearance or preferences in a crude way, as would be "perhaps still commonplace in the sex comedies of the turn of the millennium". This makes The Sex Pact "perhaps not a good film, but at least a pleasant contribution in a fundamentally questionable genre".
Richard Roeper awarded the film two stars out of four in the Chicago Sun-Times . He praised the actors Leslie Mann and Ike Barinholtz , on whose comedic talent you can always rely, as well as John Cena , who is always personable and enthusiastic. However, the plot becomes more and more "hair-raising, more stupid, degrading and step- oriented" and thus also less fun.
Adam Graham, an editor for the Detroit News , described The Sex Pact as "a highly questionable and not very funny" film. He tries "awkwardly to balance disgust gags with tender, comfortably warm moments". This is a difficult task that the film cannot handle.
Ann Hornaday wrote in The Washington Post that the film's underlying values were "refreshingly healthy and invigorating." This is made clear not only in a "flaming" speech by Kayla's mother about the double standards in relation to the monitoring of female sexuality, but also by the main female characters themselves.
Nominations
In 2018, the film was nominated for a People's Choice Award in the categories of Best Comedy Film and Best Actor in a Comedy Film (for John Cena) . Director Kay Cannon was nominated for a Gamechanger Award at the South by Southwest film festival for directing . In 2019 the film was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award in the Outstanding Film - Wide Release category.
synchronization
The German-language dubbing was created at Film- & Fernseh-Synchron based on a dialogue book by and under the dialogue direction of Nana Spier .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Lisa Decker | Leslie Mann | Bianca Krahl |
| Hunter | Ike Barinholtz | Sascha Rotermund |
| Mitchell Mannes | John Cena | Dennis Schmidt-Foss |
| Julie Decker | Kathryn Newton | Lina Rabea Mohr |
| Kayla Mannes | Geraldine Viswanathan | Maximiliane Häcke |
| Kayla (5 years) | Noor Anna Maher | Magdalena Montasser |
| Kayla (12 years) | Anjal Jain | |
| Sam | Gideon Adlon | Victoria Frenz |
| Sam (5 years) | Hannah Goergen | Frieda Rudolph |
| Austin | Graham Phillips | Patrick Keller |
| Connor Aldrich | Miles Robbins | Amadeus Strobl |
| Chad | Jimmy Bellinger | Sebastian Fitzner |
| Brenda | June Diane Raphael | Christin Marquitan |
| Frank | Hannibal Buress | Tommy Morgenstern |
| Marcie Mannes | Sarayu Blue | Elisabeth Günther |
| Ron | Gary Cole | Oliver Siebeck |
| Cathy | Gina Gershon | Anke Reitzenstein |
| Angelica | Ramona Young | Laurine Betz |
| Jayden | TC Carter | Sebastian Kluckert |
Web links
- The Sex Pact in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Sex Pact . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 177499 / K).
- ↑ Brent Lang: 'Blockers,' 'A Quiet Place' Bet SXSW Buzz Equals Big Box Office. In: Variety . March 27, 2018, accessed March 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Blockers. In: Box Office Mojo . April 6, 2018, accessed March 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Dave McNary: SXSW Film Festival Lineup Unveiled, John Krasinski's 'A Quiet Place' Set as Opener. In: Variety. January 31, 2018, accessed March 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Anthony D'Alessandro: 'A Quiet Place' Opens To $ 50M: How Paramount Turned Up The Volume On The John Krasinski-Emily Blunt Pic. In: Deadline.com . April 8, 2018, accessed March 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Andreas Staben: The Sex Pact. In: film starts . April 12, 2018, accessed March 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Blockers. In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved March 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Blockers. In: Metacritic . Retrieved March 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Andreas Köhnemann: The Sex Pact (2018) . In: epd-film.de . April 12, 2018. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
- ↑ Tim Lindemann: Critique of The Sex Pact. In: EPD film . April 9, 2018, accessed March 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Richard Roeper: In teen sex comedy 'Blockers,' the dirtier the antics, the dumber the jokes. In: Chicago Sun-Times . April 5, 2018, accessed March 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Adam Graham: Review: Lame jokes stifle raunchy 'Blockers'. In: Detroit News . April 6, 2018, accessed March 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Ann Hornaday: 'Blockers': Amid all the gross-out humor, some moments of inspired lunacy. In: The Washington Post . April 4, 2018, accessed March 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Kimberly Nordyke: People's Choice Awards: 'Black Panther,' 'This Is Us' Among Nominees. In: The Hollywood Reporter . September 24, 2018, accessed November 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Jenna Marotta: SXSW 2018 Winners List: 'Thunder Road' and 'People's Republic of Desire' Claim Top Jury and Special Awards. In: IndieWire. March 13, 2018, accessed November 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Samantha Schnurr: GLAAD Media Awards 2019: Complete List of Nominations. In: E! Online . January 25, 2019, accessed March 16, 2019 .
- ↑ The Sex Pact. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on March 15, 2019 .