When it comes to sex scenes in R-rated comedies, road head is a little been there, done that, don’t you think? Little Brother—the new R-rated comedy that began streaming on Netflix today—certainly seems to think so! Little Brother decided to delve into new comedy sex territory—new caverns, if you will—with a salacious, side-of-the-road rim job for leading man John Cena.
And by rim job, I do mean ass-eating. Analingus, if you will. You know. Getting licked on the butthole. Cue the John Cena theme music.
Directed by Matt Spicer, with a screenplay written by Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel, Little Brother stars Cena as a real estate businessman named Rudd, who once participated in a “Big Brother” charity program in high school. Unbeknownst to him, his “little brother,” Marcus (Eric André) spent the rest of his life idolizing Rudd. One day, Marcus decides to escape his psychiatric ward and pay his dear old big bro a visit. Unfortunately for Rudd, Marcus shows up right when he’s auditioning for a reality TV show that could make or break his career.
Even though Marcus is eccentric, to say the least, he manages to use that patented Eric André charm to win over everyone in Rudd’s life. That includes Rudd’s gorgeous, supportive wife, Deirdre (played by the inimitable Michelle Monaghan). Deirdre has been patient in the face of Rudd’s daily crash-outs, stressing about his fake little brother, his real older brother (Christopher Meloni), and his career. But she can’t take much more of his attitude. So when Marcus offers a solution to help get Rudd to calm the eff down, she’s more than willing to listen.
Marcus doesn’t beat around the bush: “Desperate times call for desperate measures. You might want to think about eating that ass.”
Deirdre is scandalized at first, but comes around when Marcus lays out a very persuasive argument: “You know when you turn on your phone and you wipe the drive clean? That’s what having someone go Joey Chestnut on your cinnamon ring does to the human brain. Restores factory settings.”
“You want to get him out of his head, you’ve got to get into his ass,” he concludes.
It’s such a perfectly Eric André thing to say. Yes, he’s playing into the humor of sex, because sex is ridiculous and funny. But even though the joke is about “eating that ass,” there’s no judgement, disapproval, or homophobia inherent to the joke. As André says, it’s the oldest form of love-making. And it works.
It all goes down in Rudd’s shiny Porsche, when his wife—sick of his worrying—tells him to pull over while they’re on their way to charity gala. “You’re as tight as a f–king teenage nun,” she exclaims.
“Excuse me?”
“You heard me, pull the f–k over!”
So he does. Deirdre is on him immediately, to the sultry tunes of Leon Haywood’s 1975 song “I Want’a Do Something Freaky To You.” Rudd, assuming he’s about to get a blow job, has no complaints.
But John Cena is simply too massive of a man to have sex with in a tiny Porsche. Deirdre tells him to roll down the window and lean out the window. She also tells him to turn around. Rudd doesn’t know what’s about to happen, but luckily, he trusts his wife. And if the face Rudd makes when Deirdre gets up in there is any indication, she makes it worth his while.
You don’t actually see anything, besides a brief flash of butt cheek when Monaghan yanks Cena’s pants down. But we have to hand to Cena for absolutely committing to the bit with his facial expressions and body contortions. I fully believed that man was having things done to his butt in that moment, and loving it.
Not to get serious in an article about John Cena getting a rim job, but I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that there was no negative fallout from this salacious moment of analingus in Little Brother. Yes, Rudd’s kids did drive by and see their dad on the side of the road. But they didn’t know what they were looking at, and it wasn’t brought up again later to humiliate Rudd, as I feared it might be. Deirdre didn’t think any less of her husband after the fact (even if she did request a “minty drink” at the gala, which, fair).
The act of analingus is funny, sure. This is a raunchy comedy, after all. But this sex act is not the butt (pun intended) of the joke in any sort of judgemental or homophobic way. John Cena simply had some slightly freaky, butt-related sex, and enjoyed it. Happy Pride to us all!
