R-rated raunchy road comedy. Drug use, crime, and crude humor drive the plot; one character is a professing Christian, but the film overall is built around bad decisions played for laughs.
Idiots is a 2026 comedy written, produced, and directed by Macon Blair (The Toxic Avenger, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore), starring Dave Franco, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Mason Thames, Kiernan Shipka, Nicholas Braun, and Peter Dinklage. It premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival under its original title, The Shitheads, before Independent Film Company acquired it and renamed it Idiots for its August 28, 2026 wide release. The plot follows Mark (Dave Franco), described in the film's own credits as "an unbothered scumbag," and Davis (O'Shea Jackson Jr.), described as "a God-loving striver" — two men who have hit rock bottom and are hired by a shady transport service to drive a wealthy, troubled teenager (Mason Thames) to rehab. What starts as a simple job quickly spirals into a chaotic journey involving drugs, danger, and crime, with a supporting cast that includes a stripper (Kiernan Shipka), a "lycan-obsessed" SoundCloud rapper (Nicholas Braun), and a mysterious crime figure named Koko (Peter Dinklage). The film holds a 73% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics praising its throwback energy to raunchier comedies of decades past.
This is an R-rated film built around drug use, crime, and crude humor as its comedic engine. Expect heavy profanity (its original title was itself profanity), a stripper character, drug-related danger driving much of the plot, and the kind of raunchy, anything-goes tone critics have compared to road-trip comedies of the 1990s and 2000s. This is not a film that treats its characters' bad decisions as cautionary — it's played broadly for laughs throughout. One notable wrinkle: Davis, played by O'Shea Jackson Jr., is explicitly written as "a God-loving striver," a rare instance of an openly professing-Christian character at the center of an R-rated ensemble comedy. Whether his faith is treated with genuine respect or reduced to a punchline (a common pattern in this genre) is worth watching for if you do choose to see the film — but a single sympathetic character doesn't offset the overall content profile.
Proverbs 13:20 warns that "a companion of fools suffers harm." The film's entire premise — the title says it plainly — is watching a cast of characters make the worst possible decisions for 98 minutes, played almost entirely for comedy rather than consequence. Ephesians 5:11 calls believers to "have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness" rather than finding entertainment in them — a caution worth applying to a movie whose comedic engine is drug use, crime, and chaos.
Limited. Raunch-comedy road movies in this mold occasionally land on a "we grew as people" beat by the film's end, and critics have noted real heart underneath the chaos, but nothing in the available reviews suggests a substantive redemptive arc that would offset the film's drug use, crime, and crude content. The inclusion of a sincerely-written Christian character is a small point of interest, but it's not enough on its own to shift the film's overall spiritual profile.
Idiots scores 26/100 — Avoid. Fans of Macon Blair's dark comedic sensibility and raunchy 2000s-throwback road movies will likely find plenty to laugh at, but the drug use, crime, crude humor, and R-rated content overall make this a clear pass for Christian viewers looking for edifying entertainment.
GodlyScore evaluates every title across signal categories grounded in Scripture: profanity (Ephesians 4:29), glorification of sin (Romans 1:32), and virtue strength. Idiots registers heavy profanity, drug use and crime played for comedy rather than caution, and a small positive note for its one sincerely-portrayed Christian character.
See our Worst Shows for Christians guide, and our Christian TV & Film Reviews hub for cleaner comedy alternatives. For full cast and production details, see the Wikipedia entry on Idiots (2026).