"Ricky Stanicky" Movie Review

This movie is insane. This movie is timeless. This movie is hilarious. This movie is fun. This movie is hot. This movie is emotional. This movie is impressive.

There are not enough words to describe how this movie is perfect in every way, and genuinely the funniest movie produced ever. This movie is mountains above some of the cult comedy classics.

The movie stars Zac Efron as Dean, Andrew Santino as JT and Jermaine Fowler as Wes. These three best friends are classic boys who do dangerous pranks. As a way of avoiding trouble, the three boys blame their harmful pranks on their made-up friend “Ricky Stanicky.”

As the boys grow up, they begin using Stanicky as an excuse to get out of events in life. They claim they cannot go to baby showers, performances and job conferences because Stanicky needs them in some way.

Honestly, this is genius. Absolutely phenomenal. There are no flaws and no cracks in this.

The three friends keep a “Bible” of Stanicky’s life, which is actually so wise and so smart it's almost insane.

However, there is a mishap when the three boys go to Atlantic City because Stanicky’s “testicular cancer came back” which leads to JT missing the birth of his song Whitaker. After this fiasco, the families are requesting to meet Stanicky and his glory.

Dean, the wisest of the three friends, remembers the trained actor Rob they met at the casino in Atlantic City and calls him up to hire him for a gig. Pretending to be Ricky Stanicky.

Now, readers might be wondering, who is the actor that is going to play the philanthropist, three years sober and five years cancer-free Mr. Stanicky?

John Cena.

Cena plays “Rock Hard Rob” who takes his actor training and fully embodies Ricky Stanicky after studying “The Bible” the three boys created.

The funniest scene in movie history has to be the Bris Celebration for JT’s son Whitaker. Like genuinely, this 10 minutes of cinema needs to be shown in Times Square because the writing is perfect in every way.

After Rob/Ricky finishes his job at the Bris Celebration, the three boys send him home and thank him for his service.

Except Stanicky does not leave. Somehow, JT and Dean’s boss loved him so much that he gave him a job.

The three boy’s worst fear is coming true: their complicated lie is invading their personal life.

Dean and JT start sabotaging Stanicky at work, however, everything they do somehow makes Stanicky look legendary.

After a transpiring of events of family fall-outs as Ricky Stanicky’s identity and story are revealed, somehow Stanicky still saves the day.

Stanicky truly is the most amazing character ever written. Audience viewers also start to fall in love with the fraud and begin to question if “Rock Hard Rob” even existed.

This movie genuinely is the funniest thing written in 2024, and possibly since 2006 when “Borat” was released.

Rating: 4/5

Grace Bowman is a third-year majoring in biology. To contact her, email gab5585@psu.edu.