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    Worried Parents Go Off Half-Cocked In 'Blockers'

    A teen sex comedy from the worried parents' point of view, Blockers smartly skewers, in a raunchy, silly and strangely empathetic way, the neediness of the helicopter parent.
    by Andrew Lapin Apr 05, 2018 3 minutes
    Against Prom-iscuity: Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz and John Cena take it upon themselves to prevent their daughters from having sex on Prom Night in <em>Blockers</em>.

    Parents get a raw deal in most teen sex comedies, because they tend to be killjoys for characters and audiences alike. No one wants to think about the fact that the logical endpoint of discovering sex is becoming a parent. All cinematic high schoolers in the 1970s and '80s seemed to be emancipated, and the whole joke of Eugene Levy and Jennifer Coolidge in the movies was that the existence of their libidos made for easy punchlines

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