Excellent anarchic fun with a twist of psychological truth.
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01/08/09
Role Models (2008)
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Reviews Counted:143
Fresh:109
Rotten:34
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Role Models is a frequently crude, always funny comedy with the cast providing solid work throughout.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Jan 15, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $67,266,300
Synopsis: Director David Wain (WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER) capably mixes the saucy and the sentimental in the bawdy boys-to-men comedy ROLE MODELS. Stuck-in-a-rut Danny Donahue (Paul Rudd) and womanizing... [More]
Starring: Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jane Lynch
Director: David Wain
Reviews for Role Models
21 - 40 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Enjoyable comedy with likeable characters, strong comic performances and several big laughs, though it's also entirely predictable from start to finish.
01/08/09
Kansas City native Paul Rudd is not only taking on a new lead role, but is also making an attempt at writing, and let's say it's a good one.
01/04/09
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12/29/08
Top CriticRudd, a longtime underappreciated utility player, knocks it out on this all-too-rare outing as a lead.
12/28/08
Role Models invites you to celebrate the kingdom as advertised on its website: a "fantasy world where anything is possible" at least if you're a boy in need of approval.
12/02/08
Has a very high high laugh-per-minute ratio.
11/30/08
Wain gets some mileage out of his humorous stars.... But eventually the sound of little Thompson spouting obscenities loses its magic.
11/26/08
Offering a trio of elements so effective that they literally blot out almost everything that's bad, (the film) finds a way to milk the current craze for anything Apatow into a sweet, sarcastic slice of coming of age affection
11/26/08
Well, here's something we don't usually see at the movies. Role Models is a raucously bawdy lowbrow comedy with a brain.
11/21/08
Rudd, who co-wrote the script with director David Wain (among others), clearly learned a few things working on Judd Apatow comedies.
11/21/08
Wain's loopy-minded laugher does carry some credible distinction as being somewhat earnest within its snappy, obnoxious boundaries.
11/20/08
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11/20/08
Disarmingly likeable characters and a genuinely engaging story set this gross-out romp apart from other Apatow-style adult comedies
11/20/08
These guys know it's high concept, but they play it. The idea of Scott and Rudd as Big Brother type mentors to special needs children is awesome.
11/14/08
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11/14/08
Top Critic'Role Models' is what you might expect, a juvenile farce that celebrates a sort of nihilistic, anything-goes raunchiness before revealing its heart of gold. There's nothing wrong with a formula like this when it works. Here it does.
11/13/08
Where most mainstream comedies strain to make their jokes as zany and crazy as possible, Role Models has the unspeakable bravery to base almost all of its comedy on things that could actually happen.
11/12/08
I really enjoyed it and definitely recommend it. And you've got Jane Lynch in another outstanding performance. What more could you want?
11/12/08
Great stuff? No, not really. But it's entertaining and funnier than most things that show up claiming to be comedies these days.
11/12/08
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