YMMV / Trainwreck

• Ensemble Dark Horse: In a cast made up of many popular actors, Lebron James stands out as one of the strongest character and performances, with many heralding him as the best part.
• He Really Can Act:
  • While Amy Schumer is still a highly divisive comedian, some of her detractors have admitted to enjoying her work here above that in her other projects.
  • Lebron James' Adam Westing received praise from audiences and critics — not only due to "the relief of discovering that he is not as terrible as he had every right to be", but because he in fact holds his own — if not steals the show — against a cast of established comedic actors.
  • John Cena also proved himself, like contemporaries Dwayne Johnson and Batista before him, as more than a novelty act by stealing the movie as a less-than-ambiguously gay boyfriend. Whereas Cena had languished in poorly-received, low-budget WWE films prior to this film, his success from Trainwreck led him into an established acting career that eventually moved him away from wrestling.
• Harsher in Hindsight: One of the subplots involves sports physician Dr. Connors finding a breakthrough surgery to help then-Knicks star Amar'e Stoudamire with his chronic knee problems. Sadly for Stoudamire, life did not imitate art and Stoudamire's knee issues continued to fell his career; he was released by the Knicks a few months before the film was released and retired from the NBA the following year.
• Hype Backlash:
  • Those going into the movie after the glowing reviews and expecting something truly different from standard rom-com fare found themselves pretty disappointed by the fact the movie wound up hitting the same rom-com beats, only with more vulgarity and a less lady-like lead.
  • This also occurred with lead actress Amy Schumer. After becoming an A-lister through this film, Schumer started to get hit with an enormous backlash, with the biggest criticisms being her over reliance on dirty humor, and allegations of her stealing other comedians' jokes.
• Retroactive Recognition: Pete Davidson makes his film debut as one of Aaron's patients. Judd Apatow later revealed during an interview for The King of Staten Island that he was hoping to invoke this with Davidson's casting.
  Apatow: I love when you can spot someone like Richard Dreyfuss in The Graduate and realize that’s their first time on screen in a movie.