It climaxes poorly with a wishful pat ending. But by that time, the film had won me over.
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11/11/08
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
41 - 60 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
If you can get past all the trash talk you will find a movie with a message - and it's a good one.
11/11/08
It may not be the most original comedy ever, but what Role Models lacks in originality of concept, it makes up for in the natural wittiness of its actors.
11/11/08
I really had a lot of fun.
11/10/08
Role Models wobbles like crazy en route to a surprisingly strong finish.
11/10/08
works well enough for fans of blue humor, but doesn't have enough heart to make the film into a triumph of the genre.
11/09/08
What works is its canny deployment of reasonable warmth and, hold on to your hats, surprising smarts.
11/09/08
No matter what dumbest-smart-guy-in-the-room he's playing, Paul Rudd just makes films better. If only this 'Ben Affleck' would move to Kiss-my-anthia with me.
11/09/08
If the picture sometimes seems like little more than a clothesline for gags, and its dude-child characters are beginning to look a little shopworn, and it sinks into raucous silliness toward the end, it's still consistently funny...
11/09/08
I've been in the Kiss Army since first hearing 'Destroyer' at age 13, and I can safely say that, Mr. Wain, you've gone too far.
11/09/08
An irresponsible frittering away of the cinematic capital amassed by Stiffler, McLovin and other beloved icons of the teen genre.
11/09/08
Do we really need another raunchy, potty-mouthed adults-only comedy? Well, if that film is "Role Models," then the answer is a resounding "Yes!" Cleverly written around a formula, it's the details that make this movie so funny and fresh.
11/09/08
[It] mixes broad characters, R-rated humor, and a slight plot yet somehow makes the formula work.
11/08/08
Anarchy reigns in this raunchy, profanity-laden, arrested development comedy about two immature buddies with commitment issues.
11/08/08
All the people behind me in the back section were cackling their heads off during most of the movie.
11/08/08
But even with the film's few flaws, Wain has proven with Role Models that he could eventually be mentioned in the same breath with R-rated comedy masters Judd Apatow, Kevin Smith and the Farrelly brothers.
11/07/08
What it is, though, is well acted, well written and extremely polished. Most important of all, it's really funny.
11/07/08
Coarse adult comedy elicits some big laughs.
11/07/08
As far as raunchy comedies go, I would rank this under "eh.."
11/07/08
Just bizarre enough to work--and when it does, it can be a howler.
11/07/08
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