why it be worth watch this movie and be to compare it to the movie from whence it take inspiration and derivation and the british masterpiece scum . this be a tale of a hard young man ( penn ) send to a youth offender institution . but that be all that there be to say by comparison to the original story . in bad boy the scared aggression of imprisoned young men be faux macho and always express a verbal and physical rage . no emotional subtlety nor human tangibility and no invitation of discomfort to the viewer a to why a society would allow the gross mistreatment of so many young people . bad boy be lock stock yank jock and typically miss the point of emotional shading and realism in movie of this fare . compare penn obrien to winston carlin . yer aving a laugh intcha .