Role Models is Rudd’s first screenplay credit, and to that all we can say is, what on earth took so long?
CommentJul 6, 2010
Role Models (2008)
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Reviews Counted:152
Fresh:117
Rotten:35
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Role Models is a frequently crude, always funny comedy with the cast providing solid work throughout.
Theatrical Release: Nov 7, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $67.3M
Synopsis: Wild behavior forces a pair of energy drink reps to enroll in a Big Brother program. [More]
Starring: Seann William Scott, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Director: David Wain
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REVIEWS FOR ROLE MODELS
This is an obviously contrived plot, but the script, co-written by Rudd, director David Wain, support actor Ken Marino and writer Tim Dowling, is packed with great jokes...
Jul 6, 2010
Role Models plays loose and easy, but not to the point of being lazy.
Jul 6, 2010
Rudd and Scott aren't stretching any new muscles, but Rudd's glum disaffection and Scott's bozo bonhomie do gel with a satisfying stickiness. They handle the gaping innuendo with such delicacy we know that they know they're better than this.
Jul 6, 2010
Top CriticA formulaic movie can be lifted out of its built-in rut by making it look like it invented the formula. Almost everything works here.
Jul 6, 2010
Role Models could have been another formulaic comedy, fresh off the assembly line. Instead, the work of Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott here is worthy of praise and one of the funnier films this year.
Jul 6, 2010
Top CriticA light but heartily funny diversion, best served with a raucous audience who appreciate a masterful KISS joke when they see one.
Jul 6, 2010
A typically underwhelming post-Apatow comedy...
May 9, 2010
There's a constant sarcastic rapport between Rudd and Scott right from the get-go that makes the wholly expected plot developments easier to stomach.
Dec 17, 2009
Role Models is a film for the nerds, by the nerds. Lucky for Role Models, the rest of our culture is catching up and are invited along as well.
Aug 13, 2009
Bobb'e J. Thompson upstages the entire cast with his wit. Thompson was so crass -- I haven't seen a kid curse this much in a movie since Linda Blair in 'The Exorcist'!
Jul 3, 2009
... One of the best recent comedies not bearing the Apatow name.
May 15, 2009
No one is going to marvel at the actors' Stanislavsky-like artistry, but Scott and Rudd are fun to watch and their bickering is hilarious...
Jan 22, 2009
There are some very serious issues here about absent fathers and the lack of positive role models for young males, but they're just a cynical hook for a film full of homophobic, misogynist humour.
Jan 16, 2009
What Role Models does well is extract every last loose-moral laugh it can from its who-is-educating-who? scenario.
Jan 15, 2009
Like School Of Rock and The Bad News Bears, it cleverly walks a fine line by throwing kids in amongst the filth.
Jan 14, 2009
A great example of the Emotionally Stunted Men Grow A Heart sub-genre. Role Models staves off the January blues and puts a marker down as 2009’s laugh-out-loud comedy to beat.
Jan 9, 2009
‘Role Models’ isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel, just polish it up a little. What emerges is a memorable slice of modern slapstick, with charm to spare and just a touch of soul.
Jan 9, 2009
It may be slight, it may be derivative, but this comedy for (if not quite about) adults is also deliriously funny.
Jan 9, 2009
The upbeat ending is inevitable but the script’s undercurrent of scalding sarcasm keeps it fresh.
Jan 9, 2009
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