He’s the happy, beamingly-positive, overly friendly former school friend, and Johnson gets good mileage by playing against his action persona (although I’d argue he has a gift for comedy anyway).īut then it starts to go wrong.
Fast forward 20 years, and Calvin is an accountant with marriage problems, whilst Johnson’s Robbie Weirdicht has become unicorn-loving gentle giant Bob Stone. We first meet his and Hart’s character in their high school days, with Hart the popular, loved by everybody Calvin Joyner, and Johnson the overweight, bullied kid. The conceit of this one though owes just a little to the Arnold Schwarzenegger comedies of the late 80s and 90s, in that it’s Johnson who’s playing against type. They re popping off to remake Jumanji next. Two of the most industrious actors in Hollywood have thus now come together for an R-rated comedy from Dodgeball and We’re The Millers director Rawson Marshall Thurber. Personally, I’m amazed that Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson have time to sneeze, yet alone fit in a movie together, such is the prolific workrate of the pair of them.
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