Stanicky

Film: Ricky StanickyDirector: Peter FarrellyCast: Zac Efron, John Cena, Jermaine Fowler, Andrew Santino, William H. Macy, Lex Scott Davis, Anja SavcicRating: 2.5/5Runtime: 113 min The premise weighs in on three kids creating a fake friend to take the fall for their pranks-gone-wrong. Unfortunately for the audience the immature behavior and the responsibility for them continue to accrue to the fake friend, even in adulthood…until their respective wives decide they want to meet this ‘Ricky…

Prime Video's latest original, Ricky Stanicky, is a light-hearted comedy you can enjoy with your brain switched off. It is about three childhood friends, Dean (Zac Efron), JT (Andrew Santino) and Wes (Jermaine Fowler), who have been blaming all their shenanigans for the past two decades on an imaginary “Ricky Stanicky” whom no one in their lives has met. Want to skip a gathering? Don't worry, you anyway have unavoidable plans with Ricky that day! Want to put your expenses on someone? Ricky is to be blamed! Want to attend…

Ricky Stanicky movie review: On the face of it, Peter Farrelly's comedy offers a crossover not many would have seen coming. Days after wrestling it out in The Iron Claw, Zac Efron shares the screen space with none other than WWE superstar John Cena. However, you'd come to this movie for the casting, but stay back for its sweet, feel-good story. Ricky Stanicky movie review: Zac Efron and John Cena are charming in this feel-good film (Also Read – The Iron Claw movie review: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White deliver a…

The ‘90s were the halcyon days for gross-out comedies, with filmmaking siblings Peter and Bobby Farrelly leading the pack similarly to how Zucker-Abrams-Zucker reigned supreme in the world of spoof cinema. The duo struck gold with the 1-2-3 combo of Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and There’s Something About Mary, with wildly varying results from 2000 onward, leading into the brothers going off to solo directing careers. And then along came Ricky Stanicky.Ricky Stanicky(Image credit: Amazon Studios/MGM)Release Date: March 7,…

Imagine your husband, or your friend’s husband, or even your friend, has a pal you’ve never met named Ricky Stanicky. This invisible Stanicky character never visits, barely calls and seems to have about one crisis a year – testicular cancer, or a surprise return from charity work in Kenya, or rehab. This would probably be dubious at best, and baseline annoying. Then suppose this Stanicky calls with a medical crisis in the middle of a baby shower, taking two of the hosts away and causing one to miss the birth of his child.…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeAround six years ago, director and screenwriter Peter Farrelly ditched the world of gross-out comedies (Shallow Hal; Dumb and Dumber; Stuck on You) in favour of glibly sentimental tales set in fraught periods of American history. Green Book, about segregation in the American South, remains the worst Best Picture winner in recent memory, while the Greatest Beer Run Ever, set during the…

For writer-director Peter Farrelly, it was love at first laugh when he read the screenplay for “Ricky Stanicky,” his new R-rated comedy starring John Cena and Zac Efron. That it took more than a decade to get it made? Eh, that’s just Hollywood, the Oscar-winning filmmaker says. “I’m used to it,” says Farrelly, who won Academy Awards for best picture and best original screenplay for “Green Book” in 2019. “Like, ‘Dumb and Dumber’ took five years. ‘Something About Mary’ took 10 years. ‘Kingpin’ was an old script. “It takes a…

It’s a big year for Zac Efron fans. Following the critical success of Iron Claw, his December release with Jeremy Allen White, Efron just announced that his next project is coming your way. Ricky Stanicky is set to release this Spring, and while the raunchy comedy is a far cry from Efron’s last project fans are ready to see his comedic chops back in action again. Can you say range? What is the movie about? According to the trailer, Ricky Stanicky tells the story of three best friends who invented a fool-proof alibi to…

Amazon Prime Video is on a roll! Adding another comedy blockbuster to its new year roster, the streaming platform has revealed the Ricky Stanicky trailer. On January 26, the first good look at the upcoming American comedy film unveiled the star cast in action. Heading the shenanigans in question, John Cena steps in as the imaginary friend Zac Efron never had before! Zac Efron and John Cena in Ricky Stanicky trailer. Movie premieres on Prime Video in March 2024. (Prime Video) A childhood bestie trio invents an…

Peter Farrelly's new comedy focuses on a washed-up stripper who gets the role of a lifetime Twenty-five years ago, three friends — played by Zac Efron, Andrew Santino, and Jermaine Fowler — invented an imaginary friend with the unbelievable name Ricky Stanicky to “visit” whenever they wanted to hang out. Now as grownups, that lie has caught up with them since their family members are demanding to meet the man who was their alibi on a trip to Atlantic City. So what do they do? In Peter Farrelly’s new…