Ricky Stanicky

Cena was pretty damn funny in this. His Rock Hard Rod songs are hilarious!

So it’s woke bc it looks like real life? You forgot a mixed race marriage in your woke list. Also I saw only one little person. You must have really looked hard to make hay over that.

The bottom line the movie is not woke and as the OP astutely noted it looks like society. Which looks lots of ways on different days. I hate woke shite but guys that seek out ways to inject it like that are a bigger issue.

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The bottom line the movie is not woke

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I sure thought at times it tried to be and so did my GF.

Thought it had potential but failed. I felt Cena’s stage character was embarrassing and lewd. Why couldn’t he have just been a bad impersonator?

This movie, like most of Cena’s movies, was goofy and not very funny. But to each his own

Thanks for your riveting thoughtful response. I guess you live somewhere I’ve never been. It looks like the folks I see every day in Houston. But if y’all want to label this woke and discuss that as nauseum like yall do everything else go right on ahead. People see what they want and assign their own labels. It’s a free world. Label as you see fit. I enjoyed the movie. I guess skin color and gender and size didn’t really matter as much to me as they do to some. It’s this diversity of opinions that also mirrors society. But again maybe you live someplace different lol.

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Thanks for your riveting thoughtful response. I guess you live somewhere I’ve never been. It looks like the folks I see every day in Houston. But if y’all want to label this woke and discuss that as nauseum like yall do everything else go right on ahead. People see what they want and assign their own labels. It’s a free world. Label as you see fit. I enjoyed the movie. I guess skin color and gender and size didn’t really matter as much to me as they do to some. It’s this diversity of opinions that also mirrors society. But again maybe you live someplace different lol.

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Dude, you have lost the fricking plot. I don't care if a movie is woke or not -- if it's a good movie. If they had Brad Williams as one of the friends -- because he's Santino's real life friend -- I wouldn't have blinked an eye because he's fricking hilarious. Hell, this movie would have been better with him in it.

My point was the obvious shoehorning of actors that checked boxes in order to get past Amazon's ridiculous casting policy.

I LIKED the movie.

But I found myself laughing at the thought of the DEI rep meeting with Farrely and the casting director.

DEI: Great job with casting two African Americans as leads and positively representing the LGBT community but...we still need to diversify a little more.

Farrely to casting director: Ok, get a cripple to play the boyfriend and...I don't know...get me two dwarves and make sure one is hispanic.

Farrely to DEI: Good?

DEI: Perfect!

It was the sheer obviousness that made me laugh. I don't give a frick who plays a throwaway character in a movie. All three characters were literally irrelevant to the thin arse plot.

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I don't think the movie is woke, but Amazon does have a DEI policy in place about using underrepresented characters in their films. This is an Amazon film.

I thought they did it in kind of a hilariously frick you way to the whole concept. And Effron's wife/girlfriend was an absolute smoke show. No problem there at all.

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i said the same thing about Halo. They cast a blind albino gay black man and put them all in one single character. I liked the character just fine and he went out like a boss.

but it's funny when you notice they just checked all the boxes.i won't use the word "woke" but it's checkboxes. if it's a capable actor, i roll my eyes and move on.

I was gonna say....

The frick that dude live where he sees two dwarfs “everyday”

I’ve maybe seen 2 in my life

Air-dicking alone was worth the watch.

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the obvious DEI roles.

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The straight, white couple even checked a DEI box. They were Jewish.

The only box I didn’t see being checked was the Tranny box.

But back to the movie. We thought it was funny. Just a goofy movie that you can sit back and have a few laughs.