The film follows three naive sixth graders who ditch school to replace a broken drone and prep for their kisses after being invited to a major party – but things go epically awry.

[6] The film premiered at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, on March 11, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 16, 2019, by Universal Pictures.

To avoid getting grounded, they cut school to buy a new drone at the local mall, with Hannah and her friend Lily in pursuit.

An argument ensues between the friends and the three go their separate ways, although Max takes the blame for what transpired to prevent Thor and Lucas from getting into trouble.

Stephen Merchant makes an uncredited cameo appearance as Claude, the man who purchases a sex doll from the boys.

On August 16, 2017, it was announced that Seth Rogen's Point Grey Pictures and Good Universe would produce a comedy film by writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky in their directorial debuts.

[7] In March 2018, Jacob Tremblay was cast in the film, titled Good Boys, to which Universal Pictures bought the distribution rights.

Jonathan Furmanski, who had worked on Search Party, Inside Amy Schumer, and The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling, was enlisted as the film's cinematographer.

The "universal agreement" is that Good Boys shouldn't look like a "typical" pre-teen comedy, that it should feel "bigger and more open" despite its tight premise.

According to Furmanski, Nolet "drilled small washers into the tarmac for every camera position and we took copious notes so we could go back if necessary, or second unit could come in and replicate something.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Good Boys is undermined by an eagerness to repeatedly indulge in profane humor, but its appealing cast and ultimately thoughtful message often shine through.

[18] Critic Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a rating of three stars out of four, who commented that "for all its wacky, gross-out, shock-ya humor, Good Boys has a lot of heart.

He looked on the main characters as "the worst example of media brats", and the film's ambition to make it as profane as possible made for a hypocritical and "smut-peddling" work.