This is a fun little movie that made it under my radar a few years ago. If you enjoy high school dramadies, your likely to enjoy this. In one Summer, 3 boys discover a Lord of the Flies land in the wilderness by their home. Their escape their focus and isn't that what adolescent movies are all about? It's a common theme but the characterization and sometimes tense dramatic portions are original and effective.This high school aged comedy/drama starts where the high school campus ends. Here we have three teenaged friends, unhappy with their home lives, who join together to leave the suburbs and build their own shack in the woods.I think the angst of high school kids is pretty standard here. I remember wanting to move out of my parents house so badly at that age. I wasn't financially prepared to so I had to wait. These boys don't. They go through all the steps of building and preparing and their adventures along the way are quite engaging and heartwarming.They do some drinking and smoking and of course they try all the things they couldn't do back home. There are some interesting characters here as well. The main character's father is quite interesting. He gets angry and has an opportunity to reconnect. Does he take that opportunity? You'll have to see to find out. While comic in nature there are some serious scenes as well.There is a girl as there always will be. Her role is similar to the "interloper" in he Little Rascals fort. The drama and tension there becomes evident as the boys find out whether she belongs or not. I found the father drama along with the girl conflict quite easy to recall from childhood. I remembered these things that you go out and build a fort to discover. It's a good watch and I'd recommend it to anyone but mostly to fans of the high school dramedy.

Joe is in a hurry to grow up. He wants to build his own house, hunt his own food and live without his grumpy old dad. With two of his fellows in crime, he runs away to live in the woods at a self-built log cabin.The story is blasé enough, but the climax is well executed. What seemed caricatures from 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' in the first half, graduated with poignant moments of loneliness when Joe learns what it means to be alone. A month in the woods becomes a long internship to maturity. Friends leave him and love eludes him as he struggles to survive. In short, the film is simple yet engaging. Definitely a one time watch.

Two brother-like friends, upset with the way they live in their homes, with parents oblivious to their kid's needs and transformation into adulthood, decide to build a house in the woods and live there. Together with a really weird kid, they run away from home and move to this house they managed to build from scrap (and stolen) materials. Surviving on freedom, rain water and the occasional hunt (from the local supermarket).It is a coming of age story, with interesting and compelling characters, but in the end it just reeks of unfulfilled childhood fantasies. A kid who could barely build a bird-house manages to construct a two story structure that doesn't fall down on him, lives in the forest and doesn't get sick and, least believable of all, finds a place in the forest that no one goes to. So it is a fairy tale, but not a Peter Pan thing, where the kid doesn't want to grow up, quite the opposite: a kid that wants to be a man and thus does what a man should.To be frank, most of the film was boring, but the characters and the issues touched upon make this a solid movie. Biaggio's character was fun and pretty much stole the show from two mopey teens who shout manhood while buying food with the money stolen from their parents. Also, as a cautionary tale: never invite a girl in a boy's club, she will frack it up!Bottom line: Biaggio and the few inspired scenes at the end made me like this film. And I am referring to when the boy is washing his hands in a hospital bathroom and remembers the cool flow of a mountain stream. It shows that it was all worth it in order to build his character and give him his own unique perspective on life. Other than that, though, I was aching to press fast-forward in a lot of scenes.

I think every kid had thought about running away when they felt life got too tough. Well, this film takes that idea and puts it full of creative and wonderful ideas. For those who like to get their hands dirty, they would love the nostalgia feeling of the house they created and for those of you who are still young, this film may just inspire. Though it's not very complex, but deals with complex themes, The Kings Of Summer isn't something that will win any awards, but is great to kick the heels up and watch to kill the time.A great little movie with some really fun aspects to it. Nothing too crazy happens, but it is something you could have some fun watching.