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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.
Dinner for Schmucks may be as broad as the proverbial groaning board, but Rudd and Carell bring out its most toothsome delights.
Veber's comic conceit, which stopped short of actually showing the dinner, doesn't really cross the Atlantic intact.
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.
You know you're in trouble when the best thing in your movie is a bunch of dead rodents.
Occasionally quite funny, and oddly relevant to the nature of our culture, but this dinner is a little underwhelming.
Overflowing with talented performers, Dinner for Schmucks sadly remains beholden to stiff structure and unimaginative narrative turns from the get-go.
A mediocre sitcom serving up a half-baked, TV dinner. Check please!
Carell, who switches it up from The Office's malevolent honcho to mocked nine to five underling, is the occasional best thing going here. Which tends to feature on this particular Moron Who Came To Dinner menu, items of predominantly bad taste.
...has a couple of good moments, but for the most part it goes downhill after the first half hour. (Blu-ray Edition)
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.
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