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RICKY STANICKY MOVIE REVIEW
Every once in a while, a filmmaker grows so far beyond the types of movies that they began their career with, it’s amusing to look back over their filmography and see how much they’ve matured. A director like Adam McKay can start his cinematic career with Anchorman and then win an Oscar for The Big Short. Directors like that never really return to the low brow comedies of their yesteryears. This movie is not one of those cases. From the Academy Award Winning Best Picture director of Green Book and Movie 43, Peter Farrelly, comes Ricky Stanicky. Dean, JT and Wes (Zac Efron, Andrew Santino, and Jermaine Fowler) invented an imaginary friend as kids who they’ve been blaming for their every deviant act, awful behavior and lie for 25 years. After a failed scheme, it’s time to fess up or keep the lie alive, and what sort of comedy would this be if they just faced the music? These three man-children recruit an Atlantic City porn parody singer (John Cena) to play the role of their life long friend. And oh the shenanigans that unfold. Melina, Mike, and T.C. juggle the balls of early naught’s poop comedy and the undeniable facts that John Cena is an effortlessly brilliant comedian, and Zac Efron is making Oscar bait movies now, but are their abilities enough to elevate this movie and call it a worthwhile watch?
DIRECTED BY: Peter Farrelly
STARRING: Zac Efron, Jermaine Fowler, Andrew Santino, Lex Scott Davis, Anja Savcic, Jeff Ross, William H. Macy, John Cena, Nathan Jones, Debra Lawrance, Heather Mitchell, Daniel Monks, Jane Badler, Marta Kaczmarek, Ryan Shelton, Jim Knobeloch, Ruben Francis, Zen Gesner, Marc Rebillet, Stan Grant
YOUR REVIEWERS
T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)
T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.
Melina Eames (Screener Squad)
Melina first discovered that she carried the nerd gene at the tender age of four following her exposure to a little film called A New Hope. In the twenty-some years that followed, Melina continued to grow into her geek identity through the discovery of Batman, Mst3k, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and The Mandalorian. But perhaps her most significant discovery came at the age of fourteen when a night of YouTube mining led her to the review site of Spill.com. Melina became a devoted follower whose fandom did not end with the site’s demise. By then, it had worked its dark magic and left her with a love and appreciation for film criticism that she has yet to shrug.
Mike J. McAllister (Screener Squad, Staff Writer, Head Video Editor)
Mike J. McAllister is a filmmaker, editor, writer and animator. He is also a film junkie, dog lover and Surge-aholic (Hi, Mike). He grew up in a small town in Western Pennsylvania, where he earned the reputation as the “human IMDb” and was on a first-name basis with every video store clerk in town. He later studied film in Pittsburgh. He has since written several unproduced screenplays and TV pilots. He has also produced a number of short films, some of which have appeared in festivals across the country. He is a ninja with Final Cut Pro and is armed with a mind full of mostly useless pop-culture trivia. He also enjoys animation, MST3K, classic video games and being the “music geek” among his friends (which really just means he buys vinyl and listens to music that doesn’t come from an anime soundtrack). He resides in Austin, Texas, and can be followed on the Instamagrams at @ohheyitsmikejm.
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