“Little bit of a late entry into the “holy shit, that adult just told a kid to fuck off” genre, but I’m also the one watching a 2013 movie in 2023, so something feeling a little stale isn’t so bad.
I am a little tired of the whole thing where an adult who hates kids encounters the right kid and now there’s a heart of gold thing going on. Couldn’t we try something else?
How about an adult who’s generally nice, a real asshole of a kid, and the kid learns to be less of an asshole?
How about an adult who hates kids, encounters a kid, they have a couple laughs, and the adult is like, “Well, I mean, we made the best of a bad situation, I’m not going to walk into your house and slap your kids silly, but, no, I’m still not interested in kids and think it’d be weird if I was”?
How about an old man who doesn’t like kids, considers kids to be in their 30’s, and then the old man has to learn to get along with a 35 year-old hipster dickhead?
How about a kid who hates all other kids?”