Dinner for Schmucks (2010)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 184
Fresh: 79 | Rotten: 105
It doesn't honor its source material -- or its immensely likable leads -- as well as it should, but Dinner for Schmucks offers fitfully nourishing comedy.
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 22
It doesn't honor its source material -- or its immensely likable leads -- as well as it should, but Dinner for Schmucks offers fitfully nourishing comedy.
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Movie Info
An ambitious executive accepts an invitation from his boss to attend a dinner party where high-powered professionals make fun of unsuspecting dimwits in this remake of Francis Veber's 1998 comedy The Dinner Game. Upwardly mobile executive Tim (Paul Rudd) has just landed his company an extremely wealthy Swiss client when his boss, Lance (Bruce Greenwood), invites him to an exclusive, yet unusually mean-spirited dinner party where each of the high-powered executives brings a guest to make fun of.
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Cast
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Steve Carell
Barry, Barry Speck -
Paul Rudd
Tim, Tim Conrad -
Zach Galifianakis
Therman -
Jemaine Clement
Kieran, Kieran Vollard -
Stephanie Szostak
Julie -
Lucy Punch
Darla -
Bruce Greenwood
Lance Fender -
David Walliams
Mueller -
Ron Livingston
Caldwell -
Larry Wilmore
Williams -
Kristen Schaal
Susana -
P.J. Byrne
Davenport -
Andrea Savage
Robin -
Randall Park
Henderson -
Lucy Davenport
Birgit -
Chris O'Dowd
Marco the Blind Swordsm... -
Jeff Dunham
Lewis the Ventriloquist -
Octavia L. Spencer
Madame Nora the Pet Psy... -
Patrick Fischler
Vincenzo the Vulture Lo... -
Rick Overton
Chuck the Beard Champio... -
Eric Winzenreid
Patrick -
Nicole LaLiberte
Christina Bird Girl -
Maria Zyrianova
Monique Bird Girl -
Scott Weintraub
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'Dinner for Schmucks': Good Movie, Bad Title
The movie has a slew of goofball moments that don't add up to a consistently hilarious outing.
With moments of fitful hilarity, the pairing of Paul Rudd, Steve Carell and a talented cast of secondary actors, there's plenty here to keep summer comedy fans satiated, if not entirely satisfied.
Pure, tasteless slapstick silliness with little on its mind beyond cheap yuks.
Don't believe the misleading trailers. There's more to laugh at than they would have you believe.
The real schmucks are the people responsible for this movie.
The movie suffers by stifling the [Rudd's] natural comic ability and no one comes away from it fully satisfied.
Occasionally quite funny, and oddly relevant to the nature of our culture, but this dinner is a little underwhelming.
A mediocre sitcom serving up a half-baked, TV dinner. Check please!
While it has a few humorous moments, the characters are either so bizarre or so stereotyped and the tone so changeable, it's hard to like the movie as a whole.
Not quite the four star comedic meal it promises at the outset, Dinner for Schmucks makes for a tasty repast, nonetheless.
Should anyone ever be unfortunate enough to break bread with their characters in Dinner For Schmucks, you'd likely commit seppuku with your butter knife before the entrées had even been cleared from the table.
There's a little more going on in it than you might expect from a summer comedy starring Steve Carell and Paul Rudd.
Dinner for Schmucks might start out as an exercise in laughing at idiots but it turns into something much more rewarding.
Provides a great showcase for Carell's brand of deadpan nuttiness.
The film fails to hold together as the portrait of an unlikely friendship, and the individual moments of brilliance feel like skits in a disjointed whole.
Whenever Clement is on screen with Carell and Rudd Schmucks is rude and funny. The trouble is, the rest of the movie should be like that too.
It cost around $70 million, according to the Los Angeles Times, which is about $5 million per laugh if I'm generous.
Dinner for Schmucks belongs to that mangy breed of American comedy that confuses situations that are genuinely funny for situations that are agonisingly awkward.
When scene after scene falls flat, and the film seems a lot longer than it actually is, you know that this is a comedy that just isn't working.
As the film hits the one-hour mark, it dawns on you this is not coming together as a cohesive comic experience.
Rudd and Carell turn out to be a near-perfect double act, with Rudd's exasperated, manic nice guy act a perfect foil for Carell, who gives the kind of broad, nutty, idiot man-child performance we haven't seen from him since his Anchorman days.
Remarkably, they have managed to take a very funny original film, some very talented comedians and created an experience akin to a dentist visit.
Audience Reviews for Dinner for Schmucks
Super Reviewer
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- Barry: In the words of John Lennon, 'You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not.'
- Tim: The only one.
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- Therman: BARRY. Tell us why your wife left you.
- Barry Speck: [mumbles]
- Therman: Louder, Barry.
- Barry Speck: I lost her clitoris.
- Susana: You lost her what?
- Barry Speck: I told her it was probably in her purse...
- Susana: No, Barry, do you know what a clitoris is?
- Barry Speck: I don't know what half the stuff in her purse is.
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- Julie: You tell your friend Tim, he can, uhm, you tell him he can kiss my ass.
- Barry: Oh, don't have to we have a picture.
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- Henderson: I have a bunch of singles left from your sisters birthday party....is Cinnamon a family name?
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- Darla: Wanna lick cheese off of my naked body?
- Barry: Oh, I'm sure Tim has plates.
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- Barry: As a wise man once said 'You may say i'm a dreamer but i'm not'.
- Tim: 'The only one.'
- Barry: What?
- Tim: Well that's the lyric 'You may say i'm a dreamer, but i'm not the only one'
- Barry: [sarcastically] Okay Tim, whatever you say!
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Foreign Titles
- The Dinner (FR)
- Una cena para tontos (ES)
