Tom Cruise son?????...I don’t find that encouraging
I know, I can’t stand Tom Cruise. Hopefully the son won’t be as overrated!
I know nothing at all about this movie. However, I predict that there will be some, or all of the following:
A smart Asian, or smart nerdy-and-harmless white guy
A wisecracking gay guy (for comic relief)
A couple of good-looking female cheerleader-types to keep the guys in the the audience interested.
A tough, streetwise, hard-as-nails-on-the-outside-but-privately-insecure black or Latino girl.
A couple of dumb white football types that start out "bigoted and hateful" but eventually see the light that diversity provides.
Because everyone knows that every clique in HS has all of these sterotypes in it. Especially in the smalltown Midwest US. Right? Mine sure did. /sarc.
What made the first movie work (for me, at least) is that all of the people looked like they might have come from my hometown. That, and at 12, the whole proposition looked like one big adventure. :-)