Three Trailers: Ricky Stanicky Goes Airbender on Ungentlemanly U.N.C.L.E.

By Jen Maravegias | Film | February 2, 2024 |

By Jen Maravegias | Film | February 2, 2024 |

Guy Ritchie and Jerry Bruckheimer have assembled an attractive, albeit motley, crew of Good Guys to fight nazis in the upcoming Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Henry Cavill (The Witcher), Eiza González (Ambulance), Alan Ritchson (Reacher), Alex Pettyfer (I Am Number Four), Babs Olusanmokun (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), Henrique Zaga (The New Mutants), Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians), and Cary Elwes all in one cast? Yes, I sure will. Thank you very much.

The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare opens in theaters on April 19th.

Ricky Stanicky feels entirely out of place in 2024. It gives big The Hangover, and Tag vibes. That might be what makes it so funny. John Cena has a lot of goodwill and cachet still so he’s perfect as the hyper-abrasive imaginary best friend from hell. Director Peter Farrelly (There’s Something About Mary, Green Book) is a master at making audiences cringe for one reason or another. I expect to suffer a lot of secondhand embarrassment watching this movie, which also stars Zac Efron, Andrew Santino, Jermaine Fowler, and William H. Macy.

Ricky Stanicky premieres on Prime Video on March 7th

Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of those adaptations I wish they’d stop trying to make. But Netflix might have gotten it right this time. We’ll see. On one hand, they did great with One Piece. On the other hand, I’m still not over how Cowboy Bebop turned out. Maybe the trick is in the cast, which is a lot of names I don’t recognize, but also Ken Leung and a smokin’ hot (literally and figuratively) Daniel Dae Kim.

Avatar: The Last Airbender begins streaming on Netflix February 22nd.

For this week’s lagniappe, I will refrain from sharing the five-paragraph essay I have prepared on the grave misuse of arcane tools in films and how some dummies have it coming. You can write your own after you watch this trailer for Tarot.