Natural Born Pranksters (2016) on Netflix
Roman Atwood, Dennis Roady and Vitaly Zdorovetskiy stage pranks on unsuspecting people, stunts too elaborate for YouTube. Men in disguises carry hidden cameras.
- Netflix2.0/5
- IMDb3.6/103,812 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes42%
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Plot summary
Roman Atwood, Dennis Roady and Vitaly Zdorovetskiy stage pranks on unsuspecting people, stunts too elaborate for YouTube. Hidden cameras and disguises let them record the reactions, and police officers travel with them to calm anyone who grows upset. They developed about 400 prank ideas over two years and used roughly 32, filming in 30 days. Lawyers and insurance providers had to approve each stunt, and they turned many down.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Natural Born Pranksters (2016)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Vitaly Zdorovetskiy made headlines in 2014 by streaking across the field at the FIFA World Cup Final in Rio de Janeiro with the words "Natural Born Pranksters" written across his chest, promoting the film.
- Roman Atwood said that he and his fellow pranksters developed 400 pranks for Natural Born Pranksters, but only about 32 of them ended up being used in the finished movie.
- Roman Atwood, Dennis Roady and Vitaly Zdorovetskiy had to get their pranks approved by a legal department and insurance providers, and their lawyers told them "no a lot" for some of the stunts.
- Police officers traveled with Roman Atwood, Dennis Roady and Vitaly Zdorovetskiy while they filmed, to calm situations where the person being pranked was upset and wanted to call the police.
- Dennis Roady recalled that when the trio staged kidnapping a woman and putting her into the trunk of a car during a prank in Finland, a man confronted them and Roady's nose got cracked.
- The film's prank footage was captured using hidden cameras and men in disguises, among them someone posing as a homeless man pushing a cart and men posing as dads pushing strollers.
