The music video starts of with the three band members running down the highstreet totally naked. as the the camera starts to go back to show the whole picture of the band members it is forced to blur out the members private parts which tells us straight away that this musiv video is going to be funny and very silly. The next thew scenes are of the band still running around the highstreet but now they are pushing people out f the way and pulling peoples bags of shopping all over the floor, they are laughing and smiling which makes it look like a stupid video that a the friends are making as a laugh, that gives this video a edge that not many other music videos have. The continue running through the highstreet until they come across a geeky looking characetr dressed up ina bannana costume giving out free bannanas. they run past him taking the bannanas and throwing them at him. This is a little link into a film called american pie: the bok of love.
The next scene is of the full band playing in pure white room which symbolises purity and kindness, this is followed by the band playing with multi coulured instruments and totally naked. This could be symbolising good and evil or nice and the naughty. the thing i like the best in this scene is that they still have the amps for the electric guitars, and its sitting all alone in the back with a white background. They continue running through the highstreet past a outside restaraunt. they sprint passed a couple on a table and pushes a waitor who then spills water over the couple, This also makes it look like a little video that friends made together for a laugh. After that they run past a car that is about to park in a valley parking. they distract the driver and she crashes into the valley sign. already i can tell that this music video is about maturity and not knowing thier own age, because they are in thier thirtys and they are running around like a bunch of drunk 18 year olds.
The next scen is of them still running but this time there in a park , they run past a basketball pitch and steal some boys ball and one of them pull off an amazing trick shot with it making them look amazing. This scene i think has taking the idea from the film "goodbye charlie bright" where the three boys run naked through a park and steal the boys football, they chase them throughout the entire opening sequence of the film. After that they run passed a young couple who are kissing on a blanket , they slep them both on the haed whilst running pat. they boy look confused wheras the girl looks happy asif she knew who they were.
The next scene which is my favorite is where they run past an old lady who is watering flowers outside her shop with a hose . After they run past she follows them with her head and as she turns so does her hand with the hose which catches all the people sittting on the bus stop. i like this scene because it looks so staged, if you look closely you can see the people jump up in fright before the water even hits them. I dont know whether this was dileberate but i think it makes it look alot better.
After that they are running down the street and they run past a gawjuss looking nurse. She has got her top undone revealing her red bra, this catches the attention . They run along side her smiling and it also looks like they are trying to chat her up even though ypu cant hear it. She dosent even aknoledge them as she just keeps on walking without even looking at them. After realising she wasnt gunna budge i think they jus give up and continue with there naked run around town. The next scene is of a girl who is looking at somthink on the floor with a magnifiyers glass, she then notices the band running towards them and looks at them throught the magnyfiyers glass. They appear upside down but they are still blurred out so that it dosent actually reveal anythink dirty. The little girls eyes widden in shock as the three naked me run past her. They then run past a man mowing his lawn alongside his two dogs. He stops in disbelief as they run past , this again makes it look like this is somthing from "balls of steel" where they just play random prank on random people.
The next scene is where they run past some builders working on the street. There are three well placed bollards which cover up the three band members privates. i like this bit because it looks very staged compared to the other parts of the music video which look like there just random shinanagans. The next scene is of an old man watching a television on a very old style t.v. The show is o bunch of young people dancing to the blink 182 song. the show is interupted by the naked band members doing cart wheels and dancing around in the centere of the other dancers.They they begin to dance with the other dancers. The man looks confused by what has come on the tv so he smacks it and changes the channel. The rest of the scene is the channel changing to different famous american shows like the news, The Kayla5 Show and the last word.each of these shows have the same three band members walking casually through the set tottally naked. the presenters of the shows watch in amazment as they walk through. I think they done this scene to show thier popularity with the world.
the next scene is of the old man , still sitting infront of the television . The three naked band members run past him and he looks in shock because he has only just scene the three on the tv.The next scene is were they are back in the white studio , again still naked but this time thery are dancing around qwith there instruments like a boy band. i think they done this to mock boy bands because it made them look silly.
The final scene is of the three naked band members running again down an empty streat but this timwe the camera is behind them watching them leave.
i think that This is a good scene to end with because it is really funny and shows the maturity of the band members, which has alot to do with the name of the song which talks about not knowing your own age.
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