Blockers

What the movie is officially called. Unofficially it’s cock blockers.

It’s about three parents trying to prevent their daughters from doing a cherry popping oath.

John Cena goes what seems like completely out of character, playing a stay-at-home dad who raised a Tomboy and feels like its his job to keep her pure. I’m still waiting for Cena to do another action flick like The Marine (cross fingers, I herd he’s going to play Duke Nuke Em in a film adaption of the game),but man is he funny! He’s always the supporting character in these funny films, but he got to shine far more in this flick. This movie is saying to me he’s ready for the leading role in something like a remake of Jingle all the Way(What!? I loved Schwarzenegger in Jingle All the Way).

Cena had some great comedic actors helping him out, like Ike Barinholtz whose a master at these supporting roles. He’s done it twice for Seth Rogen in the Neighbors movies and once for Amy Schumer in Snatched, great in all three and great in this one. Barinholtz plays a divorced dad who seems to be the voice of reason among the parents but is influenced to join them in the cock blocking mostly because he wants to be included in the group.

Than there’s Leslie Bibb, who is mostly a straight man in this comedy, which is ironic as she is the ring leader of the parents, an over barring single mother who’s not ready for her daughter to leave the flock.

Speaking of the daughters, that was the funniest part. I’ve seen many films about teenagers trying to loose their virginity, but it’s always rare when it’s a group of girls, and it helps that it was a very diverse group of girls coming at different points of view of what they are going to get out of the experience. It’s a stale concept done over and over again, but coming from women makes it smell fresh.

Cock Blockers is everything I was hoping it was going to be. From the title, I was expecting big laughs and I got them, thanks to the spectacular cast.