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Ricky Stanicky

Ricky Stanicky

2024

Peter Farrelly

Zac Efron, John Cena, Andrew Santino, Jermaine Fowler ...

5.3

1,986

Comedy When three teens pull a prank and burn down a house in their neighborhood, they create a fake person to take the blame -- Ricky Stanicky did it! Twenty years later we see that they have been using this alibi to get out of every uncomfortable situation in life. When their wives force them to set up a meeting with Stanicky, they hire an actor.

	Author	Review
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"John Cena cements his reputation as a major comic star, but the movie around him is stale and unfunny"	NEG
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Peter Farrelly returns to his roots with an irreverent comedy that lands some easy outrageous laughs, but falls short of the 'There's Something About Mary' co-director's ribald earlier work"	NEU
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"A sad demonstration that what was once considered outrageous, transgressive and anarchic now just seems crass, tired and witless"	NEG
United States	Nate Richard Collider	"Peter Farrelly's return to comedy works because of John Cena's goofy and committed performance as the titular character"	POS
Canada	Chris Bumbray JoBlo	"While 'Ricky Stanicky' is nowhere near as funny as I hoped it would be, I still had a decent enough time with it. Again, Cena really is great in the role, and it also has a fun supporting part for William H. Macy"	NEU
United Kingdom	Adrian Horton The Guardian	"Zac Efron can’t save deeply unfunny bro comedy (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	William Bibbiani The Wrap	"It takes a farcical premise and tries to find something meaningful to say about it. It doesn’t succeed, but the effort is worth analyzing..."	NEU
United States	Nate Richard Collider	"Peter Farrelly's return to comedy works because of John Cena's goofy and committed performance as the titular character"	POS
United States	Ross McIndoe Slant	"The film is stupid in a much less joyful way than Jeff Tomsic’s similarly themed 'Tag' (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Eric Goldman IGN	"John Cena gives another great comedic performance in a film that falters around him"	NEG
United States	Nick Schager The Daily Beast	"If it never manages to leave a memorably mirthful mark, it’s not for lack of trying on Cena’s part"	NEU
United Kingdom	Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"A broad comedy that completely bungles its tone (...) it doesn’t work (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Pete Hammond Deadline	"Zac Efron and John Cena mine big laughs in Peter Farrelly’s hilarious return to raunchy R-rated comedy"	POS
Canada	Felipe Rangel Screen Rant	"[It] might not reinvent the wheel, but Zac Efron and John Cena deliver laughs and emotional moments in Peter Farrelly's new raunchy comedy (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Belen Edwards Mashable	"Not even John Cena can save this bottom-of-the-barrel bro comedy (...) I want my one hour and 48 minutes back"	NEG
United States	Ethan Anderton SlashFilm	"For the most part, it is an entertaining comedy with enough laughs to keep your attention, but ultimately, it tries too hard to pull at your heartstrings without enough authenticity to back it up"	NEU
United States	Monica Castillo rogerebert.com	"So much of 'Ricky Stanicky' is juvenile and joyless, playing on drawn out jokes, bottom shelf masturbation punchlines, and varying degrees of cringe comedy (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Luke Y. Thompson AV Club	"Peter Farrelly can't recapture his old comedy magic"	NEG
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"'Ricky Stanicky' might be imaginary and doesn't measure up to its promise, but in terms of that basket within the wrestler-turned-actor's filmography, it at least fits Cena like a glove"	NEU
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"By the time 'Ricky Stanicky' comes to its wobbly and utterly unconvincing resolution, it's hard to imagine caring less about what happens to these three louts and their imaginary/real friend (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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