Those Guys

Those Guys is a 2021 American animated buddy comedy road-trip film produced by Xavier Mosley of Millvale and On The Way fame and directed by Jason Reitman who is known for directing Juno and Ghostbusters 2020. The film is produced by Mosley's debut studio Smashup Productions and released by 20th Century Fox Pictures on April 16, 2021. The film focuses on two teenage boys that live in an apartment in Houston, Texas.

The film serves as the pilot followed by an television series on Fox in January 2022.

Plot
Living in an apartment in Houston, Texas, two boys named Aux Jefferson and Pete Walker receive a message from Pete's girlfriend and Aux's sister Annie Jefferson, saying that they are invited to a funeral of his late uncle. They go to the man's home and the elder invites the Boys in. He gives them a box holding a chocolate cake and tells them to deliver it at the funeral in San Francisco, California. They head off to San Francisco on a handmade sidecar (that is made from a bicycle and a shopping cart attached together).

Meanwhile in Los Angeles, a woman named Sylvia, the spoiled and rich millionaire lives in a mansion and has a lover Jack, who has brought a box of illegal weapons for their trip to Washington, D.C. The boys arrive to their home for directions. After getting the directions to San Fransisco, the Boys leave and take the wrong box, which is the one with the weapons. Discovering the couple had their box switched when they had the one with the cake, they follow them. Later that night, they sleep at a rest stop, where they tell stories and look at the stars. The next day, they continue the trip. Jack and Sylvia drive after them and one of them start climbing out of the car and jump them, though, Gillan throws out a banana peel out and makes their car go off the road, foiling the plan they had. After several backfiring attempts following and trying to steal the box, they try a different plan: shooting them down.

On the third day of their trip, the boys encounter a truck stop. While in there, they order a pie, in which later, it causes a food fight to occur. It stops at the end, where the Boys get their sidecar stolen. Disappointed, they continue the trip on foot. After walking for countless hours, they encounter an abandoned motorcycle. After driving non-stop for 19 hours, they run out of gas. Now, they start to hitchhike. A van stops and the driver takes them on their trip to Comic-Con in San Diego. After they arrive, they interrupt announcements in panels, attendances, etc. Some time later, the convention closes at night and the boys hide and wait until morning. The next morning, the Boys wake up, then came out from their hiding spots and get separated by many crowded people. The unexpected Sylvia and Jack arrive at the convention to kill the Boys. When the boys encounter them both and Sylvia with a gun, they split up and run. They go after Jake and Gillan and catch them in an empty panel.

When Lawrence finds Gillan and Jake, he gets joined with them. Jake opens the box, revealing the weapons. Sylvia thanks them and then starts to shoot them, but the C.I.A. arrives, as well as Melvin, who explains that that the funeral was a ruse to arrest the couple and the cake had a tracking chip in it, and had followed the couple since the Boys brought it and accidentally swapped boxes. In the aftermath, Sylvia and Jack are arrested. After all the traveling and suffering they went to, they become irked and distraught all for nothing but to arrest two criminals. They leave on foot, but the C.I.A. retrieved their stolen sidecar and give it back to them. The Boys board their sidecar to the bus and depart back home.

During the credits, post-credits scenes are shown when each actor is shown. Riding home at night, Gillan sings "99 Bottles of Milk on the Wall". Jake then joins in; in jail, Sylvia plans escaping with shovels. Jack retorts, "What shovels?", which makes Sylvia think of a new plan; the Boys look up and see Melvin in a helicopter. He gives a salute to them and they give one back. After the helicopter leaves, the Boys resume heading home.

Cast

 * Griffin Gluck as Alexander "Aux" Jefferson, a rational minded and generous 15-year old living in Apartment 626.
 * Zach Callison provides the voice of Aux.
 * Sean Ryan Fox as Peterson "Pete" Walker, Aux's laid-back, self-centered, feeble-minded, and selfish best-friend whose roommates with him.
 * Xavier Mosley provides the voice as Pete.
 * Isabella Acres as Annie O. Jefferson, Aux's sister and Pete's girlfriend who hangs out with the duo whenever she can.
 * Adam Sandler as
 * Diedrich Bader as Ron Jefferson, Aux and Annie's overprotective and father who has pride in his son and daughter, but has a hatred for Pete.
 * Mae Whitman as as Amanda Jefferson, Aux and Amanda's mother and Ron's wife who was responsible for naming her children with an 'A' at the beginning.
 * John DiMaggio as Gary Walker, Pete's loudmouth father.
 * Kari Wahlgren as Eustace Walker, Pete's mother.

Production
The movie was meant to be a live-action until

The film's animation sequences are provided by Mercury Filmworks.

Sean Ryan Fox was originally cast to be Gillan, however was then recast by Jacob Hopkins.

Mosley decided to have himself, Giambrone and Albrizzi lip-sync the the dialogue of the actors playing the Boys.

Release date
The film is set to release on June 8, 2018 in North America, while releasing in other countries on May 18 and July 20.

Marketing
M&M's, Pop Tarts and Uber promote the film on television.

The Boys appear on DVD covers with a white background and standing with another character from a different Columbia film, either live-action films in their live-action variants or animated films in their animated variants.

Home media
After the film's release in theaters, it will release on Digital HD on September 25, 2018 and on DVD and Blu-ray on October 16, by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. It will include a bonus DVD set entitled, On The Way Presents: On The Set, consisting of behind the scenes featurettes that can also be featured on the Blu-ray version. It also includes animatics on the animated sequences in the film.

Reception
Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of TBA% based on reviews from TBA critics; the average rating is 6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "." Metacritic gives the film a score of 66 out of 100, based on reviews from 32 critics, indicating "mixed-or-average reviews".