Toy Gun Bandit (2026) Movie Drinking Game
Take a Drink: for underage drinking
Take a Drink: for terrible teenage decision-making
Take a Drink: whenever the fact it’s the kid’s birthday comes up
Take a Drink: whenever Sara tokes up
Take a Drink: whenever someone doesn’t know when to stop talking
Do a Shot: for each bank job
By: Henry J. Fromage (Two Beers) –
How easily we slip into a life of crime- at least in the movies, that is.
Toy Gun Bandit follows Félix (Félix Munger), who’s just turned 15 and up for drinking whatever he can get his hands on with his buddies. When they decide to prank a friend on the night shift at a gas station, Félix somewhat accidentally robs the place. Things spiral out for him from there.
A Toast
Director Rémi St-Michel establishes a propulsive sense of energy driven by Félix’s never-ending impulsiveness from the literal jump. That instinct is given the worst possible outlet (yes, worse than the off-the-cuff gas station robbery) when he meets a shady dude after deciding to buy a bar a round (don’t worry, they don’t serve him- just let him buy that round with his ill gotten gains), who then recruits him into the world’s shittiest bank robbery plan.
This is a crime film with a dark sense of humor- everyone’s such a fuckup it makes Félix seem put together, tell-tale blue hair or no. He at least knows how to do his research. As he quickly becomes the mastermind of the enterprise, the constant joke is he’s the most composed and mature one of the group of adults he’s with pretty much at all times.
He’s still not all that mature, though, with a penchant for flashing around the cash he’s flush with, which is bound to attract attention. When bigger criminal fish decide to enter their pond, things go bad, fast. It’s a genuine question what shape any of these folks will end up in, particularly Félix. Félix Munger is superb in the role- quite a find. He’s got an exciting career ahead of him.
Beer Two
Félix’s falling out with his original friends is awfully precipitous – perhaps they weren’t all that great of friends after all. The “nobody takes me seriously” issues he has with them don’t work all that well dramatically, although it does set up the denouement.
The coda is similarly a bit unsupported by the preceding film and Sara’s characterization in particular, but it’s nice nonetheless.
Verdict
Toy Gun Bandit is a cautionary tale about the quite slippery slope of petty crime, and the character required to get out of it.
