Little Brother

Such a shame, and not.

It’s totally woke.

Honestly, it’s not surprising at all. John Cena already sold his soul to the woke crowd from the moment he got pathetically drunk with that Bud Light in episode 2 of Peacemaker Season 2. That was pretty much the point where he shows that he joined the woke mafia.

Still, I gave the movie a chance and watched the whole thing.

I’m not gonna break down every detail, but it ticks every single box on "the message” checklist. The black brother character hits all the forced cliches that could’ve been funny if they weren’t so painfully obvious. Basically ripping off movies like What About Bob? (1991) or Twins, where a successful, put-together guy (Cena as a real estate agent) has his perfect life destroyed by a chaotic, clingy, no-filter dude. Except here, the straight white guy is portrayed as this insecure mess, which completely contradicts the successful life he’s supposedly built.

At times it felt like the script was written by AI instead of actual writers.

Totally disposable.

More modern unfunny comedy that's more stupid cringe than humor. Every joke goes on way to long, past any point where it might of been funny. They rely far to much on dirty toilet humor and crude sex jokes than anything else. The story and writing is nothing new and a paint by numbers for this type of movie. My first thought when considering woke was it's not really too bad other than some DEI. Then I realized the only 2 main white male characters are both shown negatively. Cena's character is supposed to be successful but is really an emotional insecure disaster who's hard to imagine even navigating life being as neurotic as he is. They go so far as to even make him impotent. Meanwhile the black 'brother' who initially looks like they will be the walking disaster turns out to be the balanced smart character who helps the white male get it together. It's just another bumbling white male movie at it's core that misses the mark on comedy again.