Billy 5000 (Jack Corbett), an utterly average 16-year-old who just happens to have a name fit for a robot, is on a mission. It’s the day after Christmas, and he desperately needs to make $5,000 by New Year’s Eve. His media diet of grindset podcasts and hustle culture videos have convinced him to focus his efforts on delivering food through an app called Grubster (which boasts the catchy slogan “Have a Grubby Day”). The money is not great on paper, but he’s found a loophole: the app pays him in points that need to be converted to a currency of his choice. By choosing to be paid in Czech Koruna and taking advantage of an app glitch that converts it to Swedish Krona instead, he’s able to pocket $7 for every $1 he earns. As he meanders around town performing strange requests for tips and beatboxing with his wealthier friends who don’t understand why he’s so focused on money, he encounters an ensemble of endearing customers who reflect the whimsy of a storybook town despite their modern preference for ordering food on their phones and having it left at their doors… “Boys Go to Jupiter” is one of the freshest films of 2025, brilliantly juxtaposing the endless creative opportunities afforded to us by digital art with the anxiety of a generation that often feels like its own real-world opportunities are becoming fewer and further between. Glander fills his world with “BoJack Horseman” levels of joke density while creating an aesthetic all his own. He’s happy to indulge in subtitled songs sung in alien languages about fast food, but manages to walk the ever-so-delicate line of being weird without succumbing to the dreaded “weird for the sake of being random.” -IndieWire
“Boys Go to Jupiter is an experience like nothing else you will see in a theater this year and it’s well worth every second of your time.”-InSession Film