{"id":289605,"date":"2025-11-17T03:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T03:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289605\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T03:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T03:52:14","slug":"alan-ritchsons-new-prime-video-action-movie-is-an-instant-success-despite-terrible-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289605\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Ritchson\u2019s New Prime Video Action Movie Is an Instant Success (Despite Terrible Reviews)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attempting to find the correlation between the streaming numbers this new action flick is bringing in against the reviews that it\u2019s received feels like a Herculean task. With a whopping 18% on Rotten Tomatoes, it seems impossible that it would manage to land the second-highest spot on Flix Patrol\u2019s Top 10<\/a> streaming list for Amazon this week\u2014and yet, it did.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Playdate, starring Alan Ritchson and Kevin James, is a story about a newly unemployed accountant named Brian (James) as he adjusts to life as a full time stepdad. With little else to do with his time, he agrees to a playdate for his stepson with a newly met and incredibly charming stay-at-home dad (Ritchson). Expecting a run-of-the-mill afternoon, Brian finds himself fighting for his life as he, Jeff, and their kids are chased after by murderous mercenaries. Well, it certainly sounds absurd enough to earn those high streaming numbers and low ratings by audiences and critics alike.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Playdate Is Certainly A Movie<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll you have to do is be funny, and this absolutely was not,\u201d said Rachel Wagner of Rachel\u2019s Reviews<\/a>. And honestly, she\u2019s not wrong. They literally had one job, and according to most people on the internet, they did not even do that right. But if you\u2019re a fan of Ritchson from his Blue Mountain State days, this might not be the worst way to kill some time. Fandomwire<\/a>\u2019s M.N Miller says, \u201cRitchson steals every scene with absurd energy and surprising warmth, like a big golden retriever trapped in a comic book hero\u2019s body. Sweet, impetuous, and goofy, he\u2019s incredibly likable.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s your typical buddy comedy, not bringing anything new or genre-defining to the table. But, if you want to kick back and laugh at ridiculous antics between an always hilarious Alan Ritchson and a comedy veteran like Kevin James, it\u2019s definitely the movie for you. It\u2019s the opposite of what we\u2019ve come to expect from Ritchson\u2019s character in Reacher, and in that way, at least, it\u2019s pretty fun. In the words of one viewer<\/a>, \u201cPlaydate is one of those films that knows exactly what it wants to be and embraces it wholeheartedly. It\u2019s light-hearted, playful, and cheerfully self-aware, poking fun at the very clich\u00e9s people expect from mainstream comedies. Instead of pretending to be deep or groundbreaking, it leans into its silliness with charm and confidence, which is exactly what makes it so enjoyable. It doesn\u2019t try to reinvent the wheel; it simply uses familiar elements to create something fun, easy to watch, and surprisingly original.\u201d<\/p>\n

Did you enjoy Playdate? Let us know in the comments before you head over to the ComicBook forums<\/a> to see what other fans thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attempting to find the correlation between the streaming numbers this new action flick is bringing in against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[43228,30862,64,63,134,344,163448,22577],"class_list":["post-289605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alan-ritchson","tag-amazon-mgm-studios","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-playdate","tag-regular-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}