Francis Doyle (Emile Hirsch) goes to a catholic school with his best friend Tim Sullivan (Kieran Culkin). Since they hate the evil nun that teaches to them, Francis, Tim and two other boys start working on a comic book called "The Atomic Trinity" (even though there are four of them). In the comic book they fight off the villainous Nunzilla. The movie goes back and forth between real life and this comic book adventure.
Sullivan gives Margie Flynn (Jena Malone) a love note that he says is from Francis, even though it's not. Whatever the note said inside, it peaked the interests of Margie and the two start hanging out. They talk about ghosts and spirits and what not before they briefly make out. Later Margie confides in Francis about how she used to have sex with her older brother. Naturally, this freaks Francis out, but he still likes her. So they still continue to hang out which seems to be getting in the way of Francis and Tim's friendship.
When the class goes on a field trip to the zoo, they see a cougar. That's when they get the idea to drug the cougar, sneak it outside of the zoo, and put it in the nun's office. Brilliant idea right? When the friends figure out Sullivan isn't kidding around they decide it's too dangerous leaving just Sullivan and Francis to figure out the details and follow through on the plan. While working together, Francis just can't keep the secret to himself anymore. He tells Sullivan about Margie and her brother and then one day in gym class, Sullivan lets it sleeps to him that he knows. Naturally this puts a bigger rift into their friendship that only gets worse when the nun finds their comic book and expels the two boys. They only reconcile over their attempt at one last prank.
First off, I want to blame Netflix if I didn't seem to understand story lines or just forgot things all together because the sound on this movie was all over the place. I was constantly turning it up and down. Get your shit together Netflix! Considering the young actors in this movie, I thought everyone did a fairly good job. Especially Emile Hirsch. I could have done without the comic book sections of the movie however. I thought it just kind of slowed it down to reiterate things we already knew in the movie. Maybe if they didn't make it look like a 90's Saturday morning cartoon. Shouldn't it be more of a comic book style?
Rating: ***
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