Ricky Stanicky is an entertaining watch, which will remind you of your close childhood friends.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 23, 2024

Ricky Stanicky is oddly put together, with missed opportunities, and dead air, and to say the film has been years in the making, the script seriously needed more re-writes.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 22, 2024

Ricky Stanicky is one of those silly movies that is not just forgettable but sometimes so stupid you feel like your brain is melting.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 4, 2024

Somehow, more work went into crafting a gag to accompany the presentation for achievement in Costume Design than into a new feature film from an Oscar winner. If only that was as much of a sham as this.

| Original Score: D | Jul 2, 2024

Gosh it means well and has a couple laugh-out-loud moments, but you end up wanting to call most of the actors’ agents asking for reasons to do it. Who drugged Zac Efron?

| May 7, 2024

Cena is a heat-seeking missile in a movie like this, elevating the material like LeBron James joining a D-II basketball team.

| Apr 16, 2024

Squanders its promising premise and talented cast on a juvenile, raunchy, and uninspired comedy that fails to deliver enough laughs or entertainment to justify its sad existence.

| Apr 10, 2024

Thank you, John Cena; without you, this sample of the genre destined to disappear from theaters would have been catalog stock on some platform. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2024

It's a good thing that this movie has been promoted as a comedy, because you wouldn't know it from watching.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Apr 8, 2024

Call it “Faint Praise: The Movie,” but “I laughed, I groaned, I didn’t regret it,” is praise all the same.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 1, 2024

As a critic who has expressed a preference for Farrelly's earlier, funnier movies, 'Ricky Stanicky' serves as a reminder to be careful what you wish for.

| Mar 28, 2024

This is half a very entertaining John Cena comedy and half a trash fest. With one exception, every time Cena is not on screen, the film grinds to a halt and winds up limping to a stupid conclusion... Come to Ricky Stanicky for the Cena of it all.

| Mar 26, 2024

Whether it’s delivering pitch-perfect “adult” parodies of famous rock tunes, or performing a delicate religious ceremony with a flourish, Cena just lifts Ricky Stanicky to a much higher plane than the rather shaggy, somewhat soiled premise deserves.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2024

Sadly, not a return to comedic form for director Farrelly.

| Original Score: 2.25/5 | Mar 22, 2024

Ricky Stanicky is about as good as modern comedy is allowed to be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 20, 2024

Have people forgotten what the Farrellys are all about? This raunchy comedy has all the earmarks, including gags that work and gags that don't, but it has many laughs, with Zac Efron playing the straight man to perfection. John Cena, you never know w/him.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 19, 2024

As Ricky Stanicky stands, you may mildly remember meeting him, but he won’t leave much of a lasting impression.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 18, 2024

And this boys-will-be-boys-well-into-middle-age is ground already covered recently in films like Old Dads and the Cena-starring Vacation Friends, as well as previous Farrelly films.

| Mar 15, 2024

A lot of the humor is juvenile, very bawdy, but I found myself laughing in spite of myself. It has its flaws, its too long and some of the things [plot points] are too ridiculous to be believable, but I still on the whole enjoyed it.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Mar 14, 2024

As much as John Cena is charming and I love seeing Zac Efron in a comedic role, Ricky Stanicky has too many over-the-top goofy scenes to make the film likable or memorable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 14, 2024