The Boys Movie Review : A wonderfully weird film that's silly in the best way possible

The Boys Movie Synopsis:

The Boys Movie Review: Santhosh P Jayakumar’s The Boys is a film about five male friends who aren't even a little bit serious about life and want to live their lives without any worries in the world. This is a film that's made with the sole intention of entertainment, and it can be said that The Boys is successful in achieving just that.

The Boys is a wonderfully weird and extremely absurd film in the best way possible. Basically, it revolves around the five friends—Karthi, Akira, Kolaar, Baby, and James—and how their lives turn upside down when they move into a super mysterious house.

This horror comedy encapsulates more comedy than horror. Even when the ghost possesses each one of the friends, these moments don't make us terror-stricken but rather make us laugh out loud with the way it has been conceptualized. In most horror films, we get a scene, mostly at the very end, that delves into what actually took place with the ghost. But The Boys doesn't have such a scene.

As its title suggests, this is a film about these five boys. Usually, when a film that belongs to the horror genre doesn't reveal about the ghost till the very end, it can give us a feeling that there's something incomplete about it. But it's truly appreciable that we don't get the feeling that it's half-done after watching The Boys. It might be because the film makes us fully invested in the five lead characters and makes us content with what's happening in their lives.

This Santhosh P Jayakumar directorial has a few hysterically funny moments. But all of the merits of the film don't take away from the fact that there are a few problematic and iffy jokes in the film. If we keep aside certain jokes in the film, The Boys is frivolous and silly, and the film does a brilliant job of being that.

Luckily, the frolicsome tone of the film is kept alive right till the end, and the film doesn't try to pass out a message at the end just for the sake of doing that. The makers almost fool us into believing that it might end with a message, but then flip that scene into something playful, ultimately keeping alive the lively quality of the film. It's not to say that a comedy film that ends with a message is bad, but that is just not this film. To its credit, The Boys never tries to be something that it's not.

Even the conceptualization of the ghost is striking. There's a hilarious scene in the film where the ghost possesses one of the characters, and WWE wrestlers The Undertaker, John Cena, and Stone Cold Steve Austin are all referenced in the scene. It's just a wildly campy piece of writing that works fantastically well.

All in all, The Boys is a wacky film with many well-thought-out comedy moments. It's a film in which Akira Kurosawa, Amitabh Bachchan, Bumble, and the song Kattipudi Kattipudida almost act as standalone characters, along with five friends and two police officers.

Even then, the brief appearances from Redin Kingsley, Motta Rajendran, and another surprising guest star are all right, but could have been better written and executed. But, on a positive note, the music of The Boys is totally in sync with the tonality of the film and perfectly captures the absurdity of what's happening on screen.

Just a scene that references another recently released film, Manjummel Boys, is enough to gauge how well thought out and fervent the film's comedy is.

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