The film is a deadpan comedy taking the Michael out of period movies that would frequently be tacky enough to use the old 'snuff' film plot. Part of the joke is that so-called young teens would frequently be played by actors old enough to nearly be entitled to receive their pensions.
Early in the movie, look at the wrong type of tire-iron the 'hero' takes from the car to use as a potential weapon. A joke worthy of the Naked Gun films. Likewise notice the magazine the 'hero' reads when he returns home from the 'farm'.
Did you not notice that none of the story makes any sense at all? What possible motivation did our 'hero' have for joining with the 'toughs'? This is a sarcastic reference to how these old films needed an 'innocent' as the central 'heroic' focus of their crime drama, no matter how stupid this is conceptually. Of course, the original movies worked to give the 'hero' some excuse for his choices whereas this film is careful to give the 'hero' none at all as part of the joke.
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