When I sat down in 2021 to watch the 2017 comedy "Ripped" from writers Billiam Coronel and Brad Epstein, I have to say that I had never even heard about the movie. So all I knew about it was that it was a comedy and that it was a marijuana comedy of sorts from the synopsis. So I figured maybe it would be in the spirit of the good old classic "Cheech & Chong" movies.
And while "Ripped" was watchable, it just didn't really tickle me in the right places. The storyline was sort of a swing and a miss, falling short of being funny to my particular sense of humor. But I am sure that there is an audience out there for movies such as "Ripped".
The acting performances in the movie were adequate. And lead actors Faizon Love and Russell Peters carried the movie quite well with their performances. Of all the people in the movie, I think I was only familiar with Carlos Gómez.
For me, then "Ripped" wasn't much of an entertaining movie, and for a comedy it was frightfully devoid of funny moments. And I didn't even laugh once throughout the course of the movie. So it was a somewhat long 97 minutes to sit through.
My rating of "Ripped" lands on a generous, but less than mediocre four out of ten stars.
