The Ray Pletcher Blog

  So where does the story of Young Rock go in its fourth installment, “Check your head”? It checks in on Dwayne Johnson in 1990 as he started playing football for Miami University. The story is told from the point of view of the future presidential candidate being interviewed by a famous sportscaster as the Rock tells us how he suffered a major setback in his early football years that served as a defining experience for him. Dwayne was riding the victory of being a football star high as he was buying his parents a fancy new TV and carrying himself with class at parties but all that changed when he sustained an injury to his shoulder during a game. That injury put him out of the game for the whole season but everybody assured him that “injury is part of the game”, and that if he hit rehab hard and went to every meeting he would come back next season better than ever. So Dwayne did what he knew best and hit rehab hard and while he got better physically it was a totally different stor...

  The third installment of the Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson led comedy brings the series back to young 10-year-old Rock in 1982 Hawaii. However first the story picks up in 2032 with The Rock running for President but instead of the established formula of Randall Park interviewing him in the first two episodes this episode finds the Rock in his large cityscape office armed with futuristic hologram technology relating his life story to his campaign manager. She asks him what he thinks the number one problem is on the American people’s minds and he doesn’t hesitate to answer with, “job security.” The picture they paint here is that in 2032 the American people are afraid their jobs will be replaced with automation and robots and thus the futuristic science-fiction storytelling device fun begins here.    The Rock isn’t deterred by this problem on the American people’s minds and instead relates to his campaign manager how he understands American’s fears with his own families doubt...