--- description: "Watch him grow / From a cute kid to an ... emo" title: This Honest 'Boyhood' Trailer Will Make You Laugh No Matter How Much You Loved the Movie image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b72e5be3067c5d1/6987793606f2c107e6333518/boyhood.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Honest _Boyhood_ Trailer Will Make You Laugh No Matter How Much You Loved the Movie by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 10, 2015 10:35 PM CUT  Ellar Coltrane as Mason Evans Jr. in Boyhood Ellar Coltrane as Mason Evans Jr. in BoyhoodIFC Films by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 10, 2015 10:35 PM CUT The jokesters who recently brought us “honest trailers” for[_Gone Girl_](http://time.com/3666032/gone-girl-movie-honest-trailer/ "undefined")and [_Love Actually_](http://time.com/3611672/love-actually-honest-trailer/ "undefined") are back, and this time they’ve tackled Oscars frontrunner _Boyhood_. As these jokesters — known as [Screen Junkies](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOpcACMWblDls9Z6GERVi1A "undefined") — explain, in 2002 director Richard Linklater thought up “the most ambitious gimmick in movie history” that required a six-year-old kid to “film the 12 most awkward years of his life.” According to this trailer, that premise ultimately leads to watching a group of actors grow together for more than a decade — like the _Harry Potter_ franchise, but without a plot, or magic or fun. The funniest part of this trailer, though, is the new version of the song “Hero” that was featured in [the original trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys-mbHXyWX4 "undefined"). It’s got new lyrics like: “Watch him grow / from a cute kid to an emo. / He just kind of walks around / and never really does anything else.” No matter how much you loved the film — which even this trailer admits is “beautiful” — you have to laugh at this at least a little. _Read next:_[ _Richard Linklater’s_ ](http://time.com/2970210/boyhood-movie-review/ "undefined")[Boyhood _Is a Thrilling Epic of Ordinary Life_](http://time.com/2970210/boyhood-movie-review/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3703606/boyhood-honest-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3703606/boyhood-honest-trailer/"},"headline":"This Honest Boyhood Trailer Will Make You Laugh No Matter How Much You Loved the Movie","datePublished":"2015-02-10T22:35:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:44.943Z","description":"\"Watch him grow / From a cute kid to an ... emo\"","url":"https://time.com/3703606/boyhood-honest-trailer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b72e5be3067c5d1/6987793606f2c107e6333518/boyhood.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b72e5be3067c5d1/6987793606f2c107e6333518/boyhood.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Golden Globes 2015 - Boyhood","caption":"Golden Globes 2015 - Boyhood","creditText":"IFC Films","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3703606/boyhood-honest-trailer/","name":"This Honest Boyhood Trailer Will Make You Laugh No Matter How Much You Loved the Movie"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"'Boyhood' Shows Actor Ellar Coltrane Growing Up in Real Life","description":"There are method actors, and then there’s Ellar Coltrane. 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