This film will appeal to several groups of people, especially those who can remember the great family entertainment films of 1930 - 1940, made by MGM, Columbia, RKO, Paramount, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. This type of 'juvenile script' created some great films with 'Boys Town' being the prime example.
'The Chaperone'starring Paul Levesque, as got a very interesting 'Ive been around and don't mess around with me' new actor in it called Paul Levesque. Living in England I have not heard of him before, nor am I a wrestling fan. My views are: To hell with his wrestling background name of Triple H, to hell with the all too familiar body building and the toned in the gym muscle look, this guy Levesque can act. I can see suggestions and shades of Bond, James Bond in him. My other favourite player was the school teacher with the squeaky voice, Yeardley Smith, who stole all her scenes and is another 'Thelma Ritter'- of Pillow Talk fame- if ever I saw one. The young girl who played Paul's daughter, Ariel Winter, was good she's only 13, so hang around 10 years and she maybe heading for the red carpet. The main group of boys on the bus especially Romeo, Israel Broussard, were winners. Admittedly this films another Boys Town that takes part on a bus, it was fun. There was two new stars in this film, Paul Levesque, and Yeardley Smith, the Thelma Ritter teacher, Romeo, Israel Broussard was robbed by not having a bigger, more revealing part to play.
Paul's next film should show him playing the part of an down on his luck hobo who buys a newspaper to find work, he goes for a job interview as a gardener and odd-job man but is hired as the butler / bodyguard to a crippled Bond character of MI5 fame. This elderly Bond is recovering from another Smersh attack and Levesque plays the 'My Man Godfrey role' who rescues him. Levesque as Godfrey saves the day and scores are settled with Smersh and they walk off into the sunset. Thank you to the writers and producers and all the other dogs-bodies. The casting was brave, well picked and believable which is quite rare today.