{"id":43095,"date":"2024-03-08T21:55:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T02:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=43095"},"modified":"2024-03-08T21:57:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T02:57:03","slug":"ricky-stanicky-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/08\/ricky-stanicky-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Stanicky (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Peter Farrelly\u2019s latest comedy has multiple screenwriters to its credits, and boy, it watches like it. \u201cRicky Stanicky\u201d starts out as a silly comedy that snowballs in to a painfully unfunny, overlong, and confused mess that is only saved by John Cena. Even though Cena isn\u2019t funny either, he at least looks half awake most of the time as folks like Zac Efron and William H. Macy basically phone in this mess of a movie. There are so many sub-plots and comedic bits that are abandoned mid-way during the movie where it felt like the writers were trying to squeeze out as much from this goofy one note premise as possible.<\/p>\n

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Twenty years after creating the imaginary Ricky Stanicky, three childhood friends still use the nonexistent pal as a handy alibi for their immature behavior. When their spouses and partners get suspicious and demand to finally meet him, the guilty trio decides to hire washed-up actor Rod to bring him to life. However, when Rod takes his role of a lifetime a little too far, they begin to wish they never invented Ricky in the first place.<\/p>\n

Logically the movie ends about hour in as the trio of slimeball protagonists invites Rod to play Ricky Stanicky, “the best friend they never had.” For reasons unbeknownst to anyone, even the writers apparently, Rod ends up being such a big hit at the party that he becomes beloved by all, thus saving the lives of the three overgrown man children we\u2019re supposed to be rooting for. From there, the movie drags on for another fifty minutes dropping us in to this semi-dramatic premise involving Efron\u2019s character Dean\u2019s efforts to get a raise at his business firm, and Rod taking a job as Ricky, veering off course in to what feels like a play on \u201cBeing There.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s this big theme about Dean being afraid to commit to having children because of his abusive childhood, as well as Jermaine Fowler\u2019s character JT who is working on a kids\u2019 book. All of this is just so pointless as they set up scenes that feel aimless and mean absolutely nothing to the whole resolution of the premise. Meanwhile this is promoted as a film about three friends but Jermaine Fowler gets little to nothing to do here, which is odd considering he\u2019s the most likable and complex character in the whole shebang. Not a single person here can muster up a decent laugh. Even Macy never quite seems to know if he\u2019s playing his character as straight or a comedic half of the time.<\/p>\n

The whole idea of creating this scapegoat friend is funny in a smaller scale, but once you watch the characters literally pick the whole idea apart on-screen, the movie quickly deflates feels like it\u2019s playing the audience for saps. So for twenty whole years, they blamed their fake friend for everything nasty, and people still bought it all without question? \u201cRicky Stanicky\u201d is not the best from Farrelly, as it doesn\u2019t even feel like Farrelly at the end of the day, but more like a committee trying to do their best Farrelly impression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now Streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Peter Farrelly\u2019s latest comedy has multiple screenwriters to its credits, and boy, it watches like it. \u201cRicky Stanicky\u201d starts out as a silly comedy that snowballs in to a painfully unfunny, overlong, and confused mess that is only saved by John Cena. Even though Cena isn\u2019t funny either, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[219,1401,2123],"class_list":["post-43095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbtq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43099,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43095\/revisions\/43099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}