{"id":597711,"date":"2026-04-21T14:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/597711\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:31:10","slug":"mark-wahlbergs-trashed-comedy-beats-the-boys-in-streaming-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/597711\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Wahlberg\u2019s Trashed Comedy Beats The Boys in Streaming Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Mark Wahlberg's Trashed Comedy Beats The Boys in Streaming Wars\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mark-Wahlbergs-Trashed-Comedy-Beats-The-Boys-in-Streaming-Wars.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: Amazon MGM Studios<\/p>\n<p>A new critically panned comedy film featuring Mark Wahlberg has emerged as a streaming success. It has entered the top 10 list of Amazon Prime Video\u2018s most-viewed movies and TV shows, securing the top spot on streaming charts and surpassing The Boys, which released Season 5 recently.<\/p>\n<p>Balls Up tops Prime Video\u2019s overall streaming charts<\/p>\n<p>Balls Up, featuring Mark Wahlberg in the lead role, is now the #1 movie on Amazon Prime Video as of April 20, 2026 (via <a href=\"https:\/\/flixpatrol.com\/top10\/amazon-prime\/united-states\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FlixPatrol;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">FlixPatrol<\/a>). Taking into account both films and television shows, The Boys, Season 5 of which is now streaming, has now moved to #2. However, the satirical superhero show is still #1 in the TV series category.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Balls Up is still #1 on Amazon Prime Video when solely focusing on movies. It outperforms The Boss Baby (#2), Crime 101 (#3), The Running Man (#4), Mercy (#5), Sarah\u2019s Oil (#6), Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning (#7), The Lorax (#8), The Sandlot (#9), and Rory McIlroy: The Masters Wait (#10).<\/p>\n<p>The reception towards Balls Up has been primarily negative. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/movies\/news\/2121286-why-critics-hate-mark-wahlberg-new-movie-from-oscar-winner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Critics;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Critics<\/a> have deemed it \u201cunfunny\u201d and a \u201cdisaster,\u201d due to its reliance on \u201cd\u2014 jokes.\u201d Some even opined that Wahlberg was miscast in his role.<\/p>\n<p>The poor reviews reflect in the scores on review aggregator websites. On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/balls_up_2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rotten Tomatoes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, the film holds an incredibly low approval rating of 28% rotten, based on 32 reviews, and a similarly low 26% audience score, drawn from over 100 ratings. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/movie\/balls-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Metacritic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Metacritic<\/a> has given it a poor Metascore of 34 and a user score of 3.7 \u2014 both denoting \u201cgenerally unfavorable\u201d reception.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Farrelly, recognized for his work on Green Book and Dumb and Dumber, among other films, directed Balls Up. Meanwhile, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who worked on the Deadpool movies, co-wrote the script.<\/p>\n<p>Originally reported by Abdul Azim Naushad on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/movies\/news\/2122912-balls-up-amazon-prime-video-streaming-the-boys-season-5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ComingSoon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">ComingSoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: Amazon MGM Studios A new critically panned comedy film featuring Mark Wahlberg has emerged as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[7746,88,56939,206,7048],"class_list":["post-597711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-amazon-prime","tag-entertainment","tag-mark-wahlberg","tag-movies","tag-prime-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}