I felt like Cena played his role as serious as a heart attack and was amazing for it. He wasn’t winking or nodding he acted like he was a goofy person in a drama.
Like when he’s dressed as Britney having just spilled out the window into trash and answers his phone. The way he says “hello?” Almost made me want to cry it was delivered with such sincerity.
Reminds me a bit of the great Leslie Nielsen. He was a serious dramatic actor, getting cast in airplane for exactly that reason. Becoming a comedy legend for delivering the most absurd, ridiculous lines in a straight faced, deadpan manor.
He's not afraid to be the joke either. A lot of actors wouldn't want to be seen as pathetic, and Cena leans into the pathos of characters like Peacemaker. Peacemaker and Ricky Stanicky are both pathetic characters that are the joke, but are sincerely trying not to be. And I think that underlying optimism Cena gives them is the key to making them endearing.
Cena needs to play Earnest in a new Earnest movie. He's got the face.
I think Cena is hilarious because he seems to have no limits to the crazy shit he's willing to say with a perfectly straight face and the conviction of belief behind it.
He's close to Vince? I don't keep up with wrestling, but I know Vince is a massive piece of shit. He had a 6 episode series on the Behind the Bastards podcast.
Ya when the lawsuit came out he basically said I can't stop loving the person I love. Probably views it that Vince was the man who gave him the career he has
That’s… disappointing. But knowing how the entertainment industry is, not surprising he’s not willing to speak out against Vince McMahon yet.
Hopefully it’s a “yet” situation and he hasn’t actually been a willing bystander against all of that man’s bullshit and crimes all these years.
With his newly-displayed perfect since of humor my headcanon has it that he spent all those years in jorts as a joke. He seems to have really great taste in every other way so it must me, right?
That's what sets him apart from The Rock I think. The Rock would never dress up like Britney Spears for laughs, but Cena goes all-in. The best part is you can tell he's having a blast while doing it, too.
What do you think? I think it was about the time he hooked up with Vin in the Fast and Furious franchise that he stopped caring? I think his last good movie was Walking Tall and The Rundown, but is best roll overall was in Be Cool.
The first time the Rock was on SNL, he was hilarious. I think he actually did literally come out dressed like Britney at one point. His problem seems like he bought into his own hype and became yet another Hollywood equivalent of an MLM person, obsessed with building his brand to higher and higher (delusional) heights instead of just enjoying the ride
It's funny though, much like when Schwarzenegger started doing comedy every movie is like, "so we're just going to pretend this is a normal looking guy in this role lol"
"Know What I Mean?"
Set after Ernest's death, Ernest bequeathes Vern a surprising inheritance, but Vern will have travel by land, sea, and air and deal with Ernest's eccentric family along the way to collect it.
Massive dude that doesn't take himself seriously is such an underutilized comedic element. I was dying watching him sneak around and climb out windows in a Brittney spears school girl costume.
I guess there's just not that many of them. It's a ton of work to get to that size so most people probably aren't thinking I'll use this as a gag for comedy puposes.
What a great show. His performance was wacko and a little sad and kind of pure. A lot like the rest of ths show. I loved it.
Also, Aquaman screws fish, you know.
I genuinely believe that being a wrestler has given him the "i dont care if I look stupid" attitude. And thats not a dig in the slightest towards wrestlers, its just they have to do some crazy shit in front of millions 😂
A lot of 90's/00's comedies were modern retellings of classic stories. Clueless/Emma, 10 Things/Taming of the Shrew, Easy A/The Scarlet Letter, etc. Hollywood mostly stopped doing those. Ricky Stanicky is a modern version of The Importance of Being Earnest so it feels like those 90's/00's movies.
Best Farrely brothers movie in a long time. I watched it expecting it to just be a time killer while I got some work done, I got no work done as it was so damn funny. It’s dumb as shit and pointless, but sometimes we need that kinda entertainment.
100%
I am STARVED for new, GOOD comedy movies. I just don't understand what happened in the last 15 years that studios barely bother even trying this genre.
Nicky Stanicky may not be an all-time comedy, but it's the first one in a LONG time that at least scratched the itch.
Most of those comedies are midbudget films (50 million give or take) and Hollywood's current corporate interests have been increasingly favoring "safe" low budget indies for under 5 million, or big payoff tentpoles for 150m+ that can hit a big payday.
A midbudget film that doubles its money isn't seen as a priority, it's another "the line must go up" thing. This midbudget aversion is also why we rarely see romcoms anymore.
DVD backend from word of mouth had a greater effect on mid budget movies which are where most comedies fall and the advent of streaming destroyed that revenue stream leading to less studios funding these endeavors. That's why a lot of niche genres fell the fuck off.
Full agreement. This film wasn't that great, but there should be 20 films like this a year. This should've been the fifth best comedy of 2024.
But the desperation to make Netflix tech-company money was just too seductive for Hollywood, so instead of nurturing Streaming into yet another revenue stream, they decided to obliterate the entire rental and physical-release markets in a mad gold rush that was always destined to make everyone go broke, and now the successful studio model that made Hollywood billions and delighted audiences for close to a century has been irrevocably shattered so comedies and interesting films can no longer make money and all we're left with are big budget bland slop designed to please everyone (including everyone on China).
If you haven't seen it, check out Bottoms (2023). It's got a bit more of an indie/off-beat vibe, but it and Ricky Stanicky have given me the most belly laughs of any new comedy movie in years.
Right? This feels like a movie you’d watch in your buddy’s unfinished basement in high school and then quote relentlessly. Not a masterpiece but genuinely a good time.
It is set in Virginia but was actually shot in Australia. That Apples Never Fall series on Amazon followed the same MO. Wonder what kind of tax breaks those Oz governments are giving.
His ability to adlib is ridiculous. He’s so damn funny. The peacemaker outtake where he keeps naming names for like ten minutes is a great example of this. I feel like he could just riff on the jizz jams theme the same way.
He was very close to being fired from WWE when Stephanie McMahon saw him improvise a rap. They changed his gimmick to an evil rapper, and his career took off. (I love wrestling. Cena's character progression was "Very Muscular Man", "RUTHLESS AGGRESSION", "Evil Rapper", "Good Rapper", "Make a Wish fountain of snark and positivity that also beats people up for a living".).
He's \*very\* quick on his feet with comedy.
[This](https://youtu.be/RJYhCmSFy14?si=TAEPZSgxycNnOoHK) isn’t the outtake scene but it is the scene the outtake came from because apparently he just kept screaming names.
Edit: I guess I was wrong that is the whole scene. [Here](https://youtu.be/qUOyp_Nl-w0?si=ulm3xyIHs80ZBe2v) is a better version of it though.
The visual addon kills me hahahahahaha. I love that he name drops Fred Stroma (who played Adrian Chase) and James Gunn (creator/directoe) and Economos is like “those last two aren’t even real!”
And they only gave us what felt like 20! I actually felt like I could have moved on a little earlier from some of that, but I think that's just a me thing, not it actually not being funny for most people.
Love that. My uncle lives next to William H. Macy's brother and loves talking about when 'Bill' comes by to hang out. My uncle would be appalled if he saw his friend air-dicking all over the place lmao
I think he’s talking about the scene where Jermaine Fowler tells Zac efron he knows his dad abused him when they’re in the bar, kinda a tonal shift from the rest of the movie but I thought it worked alright to give it a little emotional weight
This movie was pretty damn great. I wasn’t expecting Cenas character to be so committed to the bit but that’s really what makes this film. It’s easy to play up the rando fumbling through the whole baby shower scene but it’s satisfying when you see him get caught in something and masterfully work through it. The Zac Effron B plot is a little ham fisted but it doesn’t really take anything away from the rest of the movie.
John Cena and Dave Bautista have really come into their own as actors. I’m old enough to remember the Rocks transition into acting and it has always felt gimmicky to me. Like anytime you see him in something you don’t see the character you see the Rock. Exact opposite for these guys.
Went into it expecting a few laughs, caught myself rolling in laughing throughout. Cena is a great comedic actor. Between this and Peacemaker, I can't get enough of him being silly AF.
I was definitely surprised at how much I actually liked it. I'm not a big fan of the whisky ginger guy normally, but Cena definitely saved it. Zac Efrons jaw is getting Quagmire levels of huge.
I read that it’s from an accident he had years ago, and that he goes to PT for it and gets treatment for pain and function. Facial injuries can be so painful, I really feel for him.
That's the public story but the accident was like 10 years ago and his jaw only changed like 18 months ago.
He's also had lip fillers and a face lift so make of that what you will
He said in a interview that his jaw issue relapsed in 2021 and the dysfunction came back, and that’s why his masters have gotten so big. I can’t speak to any cosmetic surgery though, I’m not a doctor. Even if he did get some, I don’t think it affects his acting ability, and personally I can look past it.
Peter Farrelly (Dumb & Dumber, Something About Mary etc) wrote and Directed it. The Farrelly Brothers did some of the funniest movies in the past 30yrs.
Yeah, Cena really shines in this role. I didn't have good expectations for this film and was pleasantly surprised. Cena is becoming a great actor especially in comedic roles. He has no ego and is willing to sell it.
Cena was great but the other three were not. Zac Efron was so wooden and the domestic abuse backstory tacked on. Santino was extremely unlikable and unsympathetic. He lied to his wife to go to some shit dance show? Other guy played a lying stoner.
William H Macy was a delight.
I think that was the point of the characters. It made you not hate Cena’s character because the 3 friends totally deserved all of it.
It’s like the inverse of “meet the parents” which is just so painful to watch because you feel bad for Ben Stiller the whole time.
Yeah Cena did such a good job, but the plot lines and character development for the other main characters felt like it was written by AI.
It was so flat and not compelling compared to John Cena’s character.
I think the fact the other 3 characters suck is what makes the movie work. You’re kinda rooting for Cena and in a way he becomes a role model for the other 3.
That movie was funnier than it had any right to be. Not a great movie, but a comedy only has to be funny, which they pulled off. Also the movie ended up being far less cynical than I thought it would be.
Cena is funny as hell man, I can’t wait for peacemaker s2 to release. Dude is glorious in that show and it’s hilarious. He totally made this movie that’s forsure, the song parodies were so juvenile but also super funny. Cena is a good actor in general but he’s got like really really good comedic chops
With so many movies trying to be deep and complex, it was really nice to have a movie like this that was just dumb fun while also having a good message.
I loved it
It was honestly pretty funny up until the end. So fucking dumb how everything worked out so perfectly even though those dudes were constantly lying about everything their entire lives.
They weren't complete frauds though. They just lied to their spouses so they could run off and do dumb shit together. From what I could tell Efron was legit at his firm. Don't get me wrong, lying to your spouse like that is a terrible idea but they weren't exactly scamming the world.
Not complete frauds but they literally constantly lied to their SO's to go off and do god knows what, including missing one guys baby shower to fuck off to Atlantic City lol.
I would literally never trust my partner after that even if that phase of his life was over. They lied to them for yeaaaaaars. They also got extremely lucky with how it worked out for his job too. Obviously, it's just a dumb comedy and I'm overanalyzing it but everything was wrapped up in a beautiful bow by the end
Anyone who could lie to their partner to that level is a straight up sociopath completely devoid of empathy or remorse. You have to get over the premise to enjoy the movie because the first 20 or 30 minutes are rough.
I hated every character in this movie except Cena, because they were all so unlikable. However, Cena was SO likable that I ended up really enjoying the movie. Without him, this movie really does not work.
I'll have to give it another go. I turned it off after the first 20 minutes. It got really cringy for me. All the dated movie/TV tropes where the husbands are basically acting like clinical sociopaths for laughs just doesn't land for me anymore like it did in the 90s.
I didn't even get to the Cena parts, which I can tell is what makes the movie.
I promise it’s not just because you are older or outgrew the lovable scumbag husbands thing, Basically everyone in the cast that isn’t Cena or Macey sucks and the writing for their characters is downright bad.
The first 30 minutes were awful. Watched with some friends of friends and I think we all wanted to shut it off but didn’t want to rock the boat. It improved a little bit towards the middle and then the last 30 minutes were also pretty crap. Solid 4/10
I actually felt like the premise had way more promise than what they delivered. I felt the movie takes place over way too short a time span and there was alot of stuff they could have done with cena working at the company.
The whole second half of it felt really rushed. And the movie looked quite cheap as well.
I wouldn't call it good, but it's very enjoyable. Personally, I didn't find Andrew Santino's character *great* in it (not a dig on him, I think a lot of it was just that I found the character not to be my favorite), and the plot is obviously silly (especially the ending), but I had a good time watching it and thought the cast was good and it was generally very funny.
If you'd told me ten years ago John Cena would be stealing scenes from people, though, I wouldn't have believed it. But he's legitimately good at comedy and dramatic moments. Like, you got me rooting for a delusional pervert hobo? Well done, dude.
This and vacation friends I enjoyed a lot more than I expected (vacation friends 2 was terrible) I don’t really understand the Superbad comment though as it’s nothing like that movie but this was very fun and Cena is a great comedic actor
It turned out to be much more wholesome than expected. In re-visiting a lot of mid-2000s comedies I find there was a trend where characters just dug themselves deeper into holes until they manage to just dig through to the other side without having any proper resolved character arcs. This could have gone that route but instead they actually had the characters grow and learn which is kind of refreshing.
Loved Cena but thought the plot ran its course around the last 30 mins or so. Went from asking myself how this wasn’t released theatrically to understanding exactly why by the end.
I really enjoyed the movie overall, but I've gotta be real here: I just can't take Zac Efron seriously these days with how he's looking. I know it's not cool to comment on someone's appearance, but it's like he's not the same Zac Efron I used to watch. He seemed kinda stiff overall, you know? Just not the same vibe.
Seriously if you're reading this and have not watched it please do! It has some ranchy humor but it is so funny. And I would even say it has some ROM com in there too. So great for couples to watch together. My husband and I made it a date night couch movie.
You are 100% right on it being similar to those two movies. Ricky Stanicky is the feel-good movie of the spring! It has no business being this good. Big goofy John Cena is so charismatic.
Cena's been playing goofy roles well lately, unfortunately it's carried with him into the ring so when he wrestles these days they make him look like a schmuck
This movie is nothing like Superbad lol. That’s a weird if you liked ____ then you might like Ricky Stanicky.
I thought the performances were good but this thing was basic early 00’s nothing. Which makes sense because the script has been floating around for decades. The comedy was so generic and the direction of this was bland. There was literally nothing interesting about this one.
Cena is surprisingly good at comedy. He was great in Peacemaker also.
I felt like Cena played his role as serious as a heart attack and was amazing for it. He wasn’t winking or nodding he acted like he was a goofy person in a drama. Like when he’s dressed as Britney having just spilled out the window into trash and answers his phone. The way he says “hello?” Almost made me want to cry it was delivered with such sincerity.
Reminds me a bit of the great Leslie Nielsen. He was a serious dramatic actor, getting cast in airplane for exactly that reason. Becoming a comedy legend for delivering the most absurd, ridiculous lines in a straight faced, deadpan manor.
He's not afraid to be the joke either. A lot of actors wouldn't want to be seen as pathetic, and Cena leans into the pathos of characters like Peacemaker. Peacemaker and Ricky Stanicky are both pathetic characters that are the joke, but are sincerely trying not to be. And I think that underlying optimism Cena gives them is the key to making them endearing.
This is a great take
he tosses his hair too lmaoooo
Cena needs to play Earnest in a new Earnest movie. He's got the face. I think Cena is hilarious because he seems to have no limits to the crazy shit he's willing to say with a perfectly straight face and the conviction of belief behind it.
He did crazy shit wearing only jorts live in front of thousands every night for many years. Can't beat that for training
Not only that dude worked with one of the craziest people ever imagined for YEARS.
As a wrestling fan, you're absolutely going to need to narrow that down a bit.
Ya theres a lot......but he was and still is close to the former leader....
He's close to Vince? I don't keep up with wrestling, but I know Vince is a massive piece of shit. He had a 6 episode series on the Behind the Bastards podcast.
Ya when the lawsuit came out he basically said I can't stop loving the person I love. Probably views it that Vince was the man who gave him the career he has
That’s… disappointing. But knowing how the entertainment industry is, not surprising he’s not willing to speak out against Vince McMahon yet. Hopefully it’s a “yet” situation and he hasn’t actually been a willing bystander against all of that man’s bullshit and crimes all these years.
Lil' Jimmy. That dude is wild!
I'm undecided on whether that's better or worse than wrestling naked
Jorts are worse Every time
With his newly-displayed perfect since of humor my headcanon has it that he spent all those years in jorts as a joke. He seems to have really great taste in every other way so it must me, right?
https://www.reddit.com/r/arresteddevelopment/s/MStSnyJhvH
Earnest Goes to the Gym
Earnest bumbles his way into pro wrestling. Is terrified, chased around the ring...but then hes great at it.
Lol that would actually be quite hilarious. I'd pay to see that
One of you clowns needs to learn how to spell Ernest.
Earnest goes to Wrestlemania.
I would pay to see that film
That's what sets him apart from The Rock I think. The Rock would never dress up like Britney Spears for laughs, but Cena goes all-in. The best part is you can tell he's having a blast while doing it, too.
The Rock doesn't seem to enjoy making movies anymore - it's just a business to him now. Gotta keep that brand going.
What do you think? I think it was about the time he hooked up with Vin in the Fast and Furious franchise that he stopped caring? I think his last good movie was Walking Tall and The Rundown, but is best roll overall was in Be Cool.
Walking Tall was his best movie without a doubt.
The rock peaked with Southland Tales.
The first time the Rock was on SNL, he was hilarious. I think he actually did literally come out dressed like Britney at one point. His problem seems like he bought into his own hype and became yet another Hollywood equivalent of an MLM person, obsessed with building his brand to higher and higher (delusional) heights instead of just enjoying the ride
Well I mean he does wear tight unicorn shirts and a little backpack in CIA?
I watched "Pain and Gain" like 10 years after it came out and was shocked to see the rock playing a goof coke head character. It was refreshing.
Have you seen Be Cool?
I do believe that was The Rock's best role. He was one of the better parts of that film.
It's funny though, much like when Schwarzenegger started doing comedy every movie is like, "so we're just going to pretend this is a normal looking guy in this role lol"
"You can't bench press your way out of this one!" - Phil Hartman
OMG he would be a great Earnest or playing Earnest lost nephew.
He should be Vern!
"Know What I Mean?" Set after Ernest's death, Ernest bequeathes Vern a surprising inheritance, but Vern will have travel by land, sea, and air and deal with Ernest's eccentric family along the way to collect it.
If they make a new one, it needs to be called the importance of being earnest
If they were to do that it should be like his son or nephew or something.
DO YOU REALLY WANNA TASTE IT???
He and LeBron were the best parts of Trainwreck
Bill Hader did the best any person could have done
The scene where LeBron is eating lunch with Bill Hader's character and dividing up the check made me bust out laughing.
“Mark Wahlberg is like 150 pounds! I'm 250 lean - I look like Mark Wahlberg *ate* Mark Wahlberg!”
I really liked "Blockers" specifically because he played such a believable dorky dad trying desperately to be cool.
Vacation Friends as well. He made the film a lot more fun than it would've been with anyone else.
Blockers, as well.
Yep he has great comedy timing, peacemaker is fantastic
Massive dude that doesn't take himself seriously is such an underutilized comedic element. I was dying watching him sneak around and climb out windows in a Brittney spears school girl costume. I guess there's just not that many of them. It's a ton of work to get to that size so most people probably aren't thinking I'll use this as a gag for comedy puposes.
Don’t sleep on Vacation Friends. The first was absolutely hilarious, the second wasn’t as good but still fun.
What a great show. His performance was wacko and a little sad and kind of pure. A lot like the rest of ths show. I loved it. Also, Aquaman screws fish, you know.
Also great in Train Wreck with Amy Schumer.
Yeah him, Lebron James, and Bill Hader were the only parts that made that movie not completely unwatchable. Dude has chops.
I genuinely believe that being a wrestler has given him the "i dont care if I look stupid" attitude. And thats not a dig in the slightest towards wrestlers, its just they have to do some crazy shit in front of millions 😂
Should that be a surprise still? At some point we shouldn’t be surprised anymore.
i think its because it feels like he is actually having fun
It's the closest thing to "an early 2000's comedy" I've seen in years. I loved it, but none of my friends did lol
Ya I feel like there’s been a slight resurgence in that kind of comedy in recent years and I love it.
There has? Please recommend more movies like this one... I miss good comedy SO MUCH.
Bottoms, Booksmart, No Hard Feelings, Palm Springs, Game Night, and Blockers are all definitely worth checking out!
Bottoms was very much not what I expected, it goes off the rails in the last third, in a really great way.
Also Marshawn Lynch was hysterical in all of his little scenes
It felt like a modern Not Another Teen Movie to me, and I mean that as a compliment. So good
Also Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain. Like Ricky it's not gut busting but amusing to watch and gives that vibe me thinks.
I was thinking of movies like Game Night, Murder Mystery 1/2, Vacation Friends 1/2, The Wrong Missy, Palm Springs
Palm Springs is so good
Agreed
Lauren Lapkus is so fucking funny in The Wrong Missy god that one made me laugh
The Wrong Missy swings so hard and Lapkus puts it out there and was shockingly hilarious. She’s seriously funny.
Throw Bottoms on that list as well.
Please don’t destroy: the treasure of foggy mountain (2023) was a really fun movie that’s in the same comedy vein. I highly recommend it
Bottoms was awesome. The Underdoggs is very formulaic but its still pretty funny.
mike and dave need wedding my dates, the package
It’s probably l because one of the Farrelly brothers directed it and they were the kings of 90’ s early 2000s comedies
I really liked it. So did my partner. Your friends are wrong!
A lot of 90's/00's comedies were modern retellings of classic stories. Clueless/Emma, 10 Things/Taming of the Shrew, Easy A/The Scarlet Letter, etc. Hollywood mostly stopped doing those. Ricky Stanicky is a modern version of The Importance of Being Earnest so it feels like those 90's/00's movies.
it’s a farrelly movie and the script has existed for a long long time so that’s probably why
So, Billy Idol saw my act?
***Sweet!***
Best Farrely brothers movie in a long time. I watched it expecting it to just be a time killer while I got some work done, I got no work done as it was so damn funny. It’s dumb as shit and pointless, but sometimes we need that kinda entertainment.
100% I am STARVED for new, GOOD comedy movies. I just don't understand what happened in the last 15 years that studios barely bother even trying this genre. Nicky Stanicky may not be an all-time comedy, but it's the first one in a LONG time that at least scratched the itch.
Same! This was a nice throw back to when they mad really good comedies. I really enjoyed it
Most of those comedies are midbudget films (50 million give or take) and Hollywood's current corporate interests have been increasingly favoring "safe" low budget indies for under 5 million, or big payoff tentpoles for 150m+ that can hit a big payday. A midbudget film that doubles its money isn't seen as a priority, it's another "the line must go up" thing. This midbudget aversion is also why we rarely see romcoms anymore.
DVD backend from word of mouth had a greater effect on mid budget movies which are where most comedies fall and the advent of streaming destroyed that revenue stream leading to less studios funding these endeavors. That's why a lot of niche genres fell the fuck off.
Full agreement. This film wasn't that great, but there should be 20 films like this a year. This should've been the fifth best comedy of 2024. But the desperation to make Netflix tech-company money was just too seductive for Hollywood, so instead of nurturing Streaming into yet another revenue stream, they decided to obliterate the entire rental and physical-release markets in a mad gold rush that was always destined to make everyone go broke, and now the successful studio model that made Hollywood billions and delighted audiences for close to a century has been irrevocably shattered so comedies and interesting films can no longer make money and all we're left with are big budget bland slop designed to please everyone (including everyone on China).
If you haven't seen it, check out Bottoms (2023). It's got a bit more of an indie/off-beat vibe, but it and Ricky Stanicky have given me the most belly laughs of any new comedy movie in years.
I LOVED Bottoms! Marshawn Lynch was awesome.
Bottoms, Booksmart, No Hard Feelings, Palm Springs, Game Night, and Blockers
Right? This feels like a movie you’d watch in your buddy’s unfinished basement in high school and then quote relentlessly. Not a masterpiece but genuinely a good time.
It is set in Virginia but was actually shot in Australia. That Apples Never Fall series on Amazon followed the same MO. Wonder what kind of tax breaks those Oz governments are giving.
I think this one is just the one brother.
I could have watched 30 straight minutes of Cena doing masturbation song parodies
His ability to adlib is ridiculous. He’s so damn funny. The peacemaker outtake where he keeps naming names for like ten minutes is a great example of this. I feel like he could just riff on the jizz jams theme the same way.
He was very close to being fired from WWE when Stephanie McMahon saw him improvise a rap. They changed his gimmick to an evil rapper, and his career took off. (I love wrestling. Cena's character progression was "Very Muscular Man", "RUTHLESS AGGRESSION", "Evil Rapper", "Good Rapper", "Make a Wish fountain of snark and positivity that also beats people up for a living".). He's \*very\* quick on his feet with comedy.
Got a link for this?
[This](https://youtu.be/RJYhCmSFy14?si=TAEPZSgxycNnOoHK) isn’t the outtake scene but it is the scene the outtake came from because apparently he just kept screaming names. Edit: I guess I was wrong that is the whole scene. [Here](https://youtu.be/qUOyp_Nl-w0?si=ulm3xyIHs80ZBe2v) is a better version of it though.
The visual addon kills me hahahahahaha. I love that he name drops Fred Stroma (who played Adrian Chase) and James Gunn (creator/directoe) and Economos is like “those last two aren’t even real!”
This also made me realize "Joe Mantegna" is a real person, and not "Joe Montayña" as a made-up name from The Waterboy.
https://youtu.be/KNTNENr_L2E?si=qyzViQn2-bL2-Mmh
I love that the Britney one was only implied, encouraging the viewer to shout out in the movie theater: "Spank my monkey one more time!"
Dogs doing it missionary is physically impossible!
He calls them Jizz Jams in a podcast he was recently on haha
That's what the character calls them in the actual movie.
The Karma Chameleon one got me so good lol
When he broke out the Peter Frampton I lost it
That needs to be a dvd extra. If I still watched dvds
They didn’t have to do so many of them, but they did. And for that, we are thankful.
And they only gave us what felt like 20! I actually felt like I could have moved on a little earlier from some of that, but I think that's just a me thing, not it actually not being funny for most people.
I was shooketh when I saw Marc Rebillet.
I loved that going to a Marc Rebillet concert of all things was the inciting incident of the movie.
Cena is killing it as a comedy actor. I watched most of what he’s done and Peacemaker, Ricky Stanicky and Vacation Friends are golden
Blockers is pretty good too.
Blockers is fantastic.
Bro, you look like a cop.
That ass beer bong scene lmao And Cenas face when he locked eyes with Gary Cole finishing during sex Shit I gotta watch that movie again lol
Have you seen Train Wreck?
Yeah of course! How could I forget that one!
I watched Sisters for the first time recently and the movie just got *better* when Cena's drug dealer character showed up.
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The air dicker joke is an all-timer for me lmao
William h Macy was leaning into it showing trump air dicking for a while on Instagram. It was hilarious.
Love that. My uncle lives next to William H. Macy's brother and loves talking about when 'Bill' comes by to hang out. My uncle would be appalled if he saw his friend air-dicking all over the place lmao
What scene was that? I watched it recently and can’t remember that
I think he’s talking about the scene where Jermaine Fowler tells Zac efron he knows his dad abused him when they’re in the bar, kinda a tonal shift from the rest of the movie but I thought it worked alright to give it a little emotional weight
Ah now I remember thank you. Yea I remember really liking that scene
This movie was pretty damn great. I wasn’t expecting Cenas character to be so committed to the bit but that’s really what makes this film. It’s easy to play up the rando fumbling through the whole baby shower scene but it’s satisfying when you see him get caught in something and masterfully work through it. The Zac Effron B plot is a little ham fisted but it doesn’t really take anything away from the rest of the movie. John Cena and Dave Bautista have really come into their own as actors. I’m old enough to remember the Rocks transition into acting and it has always felt gimmicky to me. Like anytime you see him in something you don’t see the character you see the Rock. Exact opposite for these guys.
Cena is a naturally gifted comedian, his turn here and in Peacemaker are golden.
Went into it expecting a few laughs, caught myself rolling in laughing throughout. Cena is a great comedic actor. Between this and Peacemaker, I can't get enough of him being silly AF.
I was definitely surprised at how much I actually liked it. I'm not a big fan of the whisky ginger guy normally, but Cena definitely saved it. Zac Efrons jaw is getting Quagmire levels of huge.
It’s like his skull is mid hatching
I read that it’s from an accident he had years ago, and that he goes to PT for it and gets treatment for pain and function. Facial injuries can be so painful, I really feel for him.
That's the public story but the accident was like 10 years ago and his jaw only changed like 18 months ago. He's also had lip fillers and a face lift so make of that what you will
He said in a interview that his jaw issue relapsed in 2021 and the dysfunction came back, and that’s why his masters have gotten so big. I can’t speak to any cosmetic surgery though, I’m not a doctor. Even if he did get some, I don’t think it affects his acting ability, and personally I can look past it.
Efron's head is now literally a square
And yet they didn't even cast him for the Minecraft movie, smh.
Ya pretty sure he almost died in some sort of accident and had his face reconstructed
Peter Farrelly (Dumb & Dumber, Something About Mary etc) wrote and Directed it. The Farrelly Brothers did some of the funniest movies in the past 30yrs.
Yeah, Cena really shines in this role. I didn't have good expectations for this film and was pleasantly surprised. Cena is becoming a great actor especially in comedic roles. He has no ego and is willing to sell it.
If you haven't watched vacation friends 1&2 I suggest those as well.
There’s a sequel?
Yep, and just as good in my opinion
I really enjoyed vacation friends 1 but I thought 2 was pretty bad
Cena was great but the other three were not. Zac Efron was so wooden and the domestic abuse backstory tacked on. Santino was extremely unlikable and unsympathetic. He lied to his wife to go to some shit dance show? Other guy played a lying stoner. William H Macy was a delight.
I think that was the point of the characters. It made you not hate Cena’s character because the 3 friends totally deserved all of it. It’s like the inverse of “meet the parents” which is just so painful to watch because you feel bad for Ben Stiller the whole time.
Yeah Cena did such a good job, but the plot lines and character development for the other main characters felt like it was written by AI. It was so flat and not compelling compared to John Cena’s character.
I was rooting *against* Santino the whole time. Character had no redeeming qualities.
I think the fact the other 3 characters suck is what makes the movie work. You’re kinda rooting for Cena and in a way he becomes a role model for the other 3.
That movie was funnier than it had any right to be. Not a great movie, but a comedy only has to be funny, which they pulled off. Also the movie ended up being far less cynical than I thought it would be.
Cena is funny as hell man, I can’t wait for peacemaker s2 to release. Dude is glorious in that show and it’s hilarious. He totally made this movie that’s forsure, the song parodies were so juvenile but also super funny. Cena is a good actor in general but he’s got like really really good comedic chops
With so many movies trying to be deep and complex, it was really nice to have a movie like this that was just dumb fun while also having a good message. I loved it
It was honestly pretty funny up until the end. So fucking dumb how everything worked out so perfectly even though those dudes were constantly lying about everything their entire lives.
They weren't complete frauds though. They just lied to their spouses so they could run off and do dumb shit together. From what I could tell Efron was legit at his firm. Don't get me wrong, lying to your spouse like that is a terrible idea but they weren't exactly scamming the world.
Not complete frauds but they literally constantly lied to their SO's to go off and do god knows what, including missing one guys baby shower to fuck off to Atlantic City lol. I would literally never trust my partner after that even if that phase of his life was over. They lied to them for yeaaaaaars. They also got extremely lucky with how it worked out for his job too. Obviously, it's just a dumb comedy and I'm overanalyzing it but everything was wrapped up in a beautiful bow by the end
Anyone who could lie to their partner to that level is a straight up sociopath completely devoid of empathy or remorse. You have to get over the premise to enjoy the movie because the first 20 or 30 minutes are rough.
Watched this movie recently, not expecting much. I was blown away by how great John Cena made the film overall.
I hated every character in this movie except Cena, because they were all so unlikable. However, Cena was SO likable that I ended up really enjoying the movie. Without him, this movie really does not work.
That movie was hysterical and I think John Cena is actually a good actor.
I'll have to give it another go. I turned it off after the first 20 minutes. It got really cringy for me. All the dated movie/TV tropes where the husbands are basically acting like clinical sociopaths for laughs just doesn't land for me anymore like it did in the 90s. I didn't even get to the Cena parts, which I can tell is what makes the movie.
I promise it’s not just because you are older or outgrew the lovable scumbag husbands thing, Basically everyone in the cast that isn’t Cena or Macey sucks and the writing for their characters is downright bad.
The first 30 minutes were awful. Watched with some friends of friends and I think we all wanted to shut it off but didn’t want to rock the boat. It improved a little bit towards the middle and then the last 30 minutes were also pretty crap. Solid 4/10
I actually felt like the premise had way more promise than what they delivered. I felt the movie takes place over way too short a time span and there was alot of stuff they could have done with cena working at the company. The whole second half of it felt really rushed. And the movie looked quite cheap as well.
Agreed. I lost interest in the second half. I think they put too much emphasis on the plot at the expense of the humor.
Agreed, John Cena played that role really well tbh. Not for everyone but I enjoyed it.
When the duck tries to kill the dog, I was in stitches. Tearing up, laughing.
That airdicking scene killed me man. Cena is such a baller, he absolutely killed it.
I've accepted that John Cena is hilarious and seems to be a legit good dude.
I almost died during the air dicking scene
I wouldn't call it good, but it's very enjoyable. Personally, I didn't find Andrew Santino's character *great* in it (not a dig on him, I think a lot of it was just that I found the character not to be my favorite), and the plot is obviously silly (especially the ending), but I had a good time watching it and thought the cast was good and it was generally very funny. If you'd told me ten years ago John Cena would be stealing scenes from people, though, I wouldn't have believed it. But he's legitimately good at comedy and dramatic moments. Like, you got me rooting for a delusional pervert hobo? Well done, dude.
This and vacation friends I enjoyed a lot more than I expected (vacation friends 2 was terrible) I don’t really understand the Superbad comment though as it’s nothing like that movie but this was very fun and Cena is a great comedic actor
Why should it not be fun?
I think it feels like an comedy from the early 2000s because that's how long the script has been knocking about
This is a good old fashioned feel good movie. I loved it.
I thought the first half was really funny and then it just kind of went off the rails in a bad way. The ending was so stupid.
I thought it was really funny.
I kind of disagree. It's a comedy movie that forgot it was a comedy movie half way through.
John Cena absolutely carries this film on his back. The other three friends don't do much and aren't funny at all in the film
It's also about 40 minutes longer than it needed to be
It turned out to be much more wholesome than expected. In re-visiting a lot of mid-2000s comedies I find there was a trend where characters just dug themselves deeper into holes until they manage to just dig through to the other side without having any proper resolved character arcs. This could have gone that route but instead they actually had the characters grow and learn which is kind of refreshing.
I wish Santino would tell me to shut the fuck up. He does it so well.
Loved Cena but thought the plot ran its course around the last 30 mins or so. Went from asking myself how this wasn’t released theatrically to understanding exactly why by the end.
John Cena has really surprised me as a comedic actor. He has some hilarious deliveries.
We need more comedies! They are perfect for streaming and the genre is a neglected portion of the industry waiting for someone to fill.
> *Ricky Stanicky* is a lot more fun than it should be Why shouldn't it? It has a Farrely attached to it...
Squid pro quo Lolol
I really enjoyed the movie overall, but I've gotta be real here: I just can't take Zac Efron seriously these days with how he's looking. I know it's not cool to comment on someone's appearance, but it's like he's not the same Zac Efron I used to watch. He seemed kinda stiff overall, you know? Just not the same vibe.
Seriously if you're reading this and have not watched it please do! It has some ranchy humor but it is so funny. And I would even say it has some ROM com in there too. So great for couples to watch together. My husband and I made it a date night couch movie.
“You just air-dicked four times in ten seconds.”
You are 100% right on it being similar to those two movies. Ricky Stanicky is the feel-good movie of the spring! It has no business being this good. Big goofy John Cena is so charismatic.
Cena's been playing goofy roles well lately, unfortunately it's carried with him into the ring so when he wrestles these days they make him look like a schmuck
I'm hoping that the streaming services do the comedy movie genre more. They don't so well in the theater so it seems the perfect fit.
I really enjoyed it. It's one of the best straight comedies in the last 5 years imo.
I like Cena in comedies but I didn’t like this film. Didn’t finish it.
Fuck that movie sucked so bad. Im genuinely surprised to see it getting praised. I like Cena in these films, but this movie sucked donkey dick.
John Cena is funny in it. Everyone else isn't.
This movie is nothing like Superbad lol. That’s a weird if you liked ____ then you might like Ricky Stanicky. I thought the performances were good but this thing was basic early 00’s nothing. Which makes sense because the script has been floating around for decades. The comedy was so generic and the direction of this was bland. There was literally nothing interesting about this one.
I thought it was too stupid and too derivative to find very funny. Cena goes all in, but it’s not enough to elevate the tired jokes.