Reel Entropy

Do you smell it? Photos courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures.

How can a 6’5, 262 behemoth be this adorable?

Already universally beloved, it seems Dwayne Johnson somehow gets more and more popular with every movie he makes. Though releasing to a modest $34.5 million against smash hit Finding Dory, Johnson’s and Kevin Hart’s mammoth built-in audiences will be making their ways to Central Intelligence this week and over the weekend, and they’re going to like what they see.

The movie centers on Calvin Joyner (Hart), class president/prom king/starting quarterback/ruler of the high school universe, who is being presented with yet another award at the film’s start. Robbie Weirdicht (Johnson), then an obese, socially awkward loner, is taken from the shower and dumped naked into the gymnasium to the amusement of the entire class. Only Joyner has mercy, giving Weirdicht his letterman jacket to cover himself.

Twenty years later, Joyner is at a dead-end accounting job and, despite having married his high school sweetheart, Maggie (Danielle Nicolet), who is herself a successful lawyer, is unhappy with his life. Suddenly, on the eve of their high school reunion, Weirdicht, now calling himself Bob Stone, crashes back into Joyner’s life. They get together apparently for old time’s sake, but Stone soon reveals that he works for the CIA and needs Joyner’s accounting skills to track down a sale of satellite codes that could cripple the U.S. in the wrong hands. Stone is himself viewed as a rogue agent and wanted by the CIA, and Joyner gets caught up in the action.

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