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12/29/08
Role Models (2008)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:21
Rotten:9
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: $67,266,300
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
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Reviews for Role Models
Top CriticRudd, who co-wrote the script with director David Wain (among others), clearly learned a few things working on Judd Apatow comedies.
11/21/08
Top CriticI really had a lot of fun.
11/10/08
Top CriticRole Models wobbles like crazy en route to a surprisingly strong finish.
11/10/08
Top CriticYou can probably figure out how this is all going to end, but it still has more laughs than you might think.
11/07/08
Top CriticSomething bizarre starts to happen around the halfway mark, perhaps because no one knew how to develop the original premise.
11/07/08
Top CriticIt's pretty formulaic stuff, and earns its R rating with profanity and unapologetically gratuitous female nudity, but somehow has a winning knuckleheaded charm.
11/07/08
Top CriticThere are three things that every modern screen comedy needs: references to old KISS songs, guys dressed as knights whacking each other with foam swords, and a potty-mouthed 10-year-old.
11/07/08
Top CriticThe equivalent of trying to sneak an issue of Newsweek into the house, rolled up inside a copy of Mad magazine.
11/07/08
Top CriticIt's hard to remember a recent comedy that piled one memorable moment after another near the ending as this one does.
11/07/08
Top CriticLynch's scenes as the chipper 12-stepping counselor -- who always seems a little too eager to talk about her days before sobriety -- are pretty hilarious.
11/07/08
Top CriticYou stand a fair chance of emerging from the movie with your lack of faith in humanity unchallenged.
11/07/08
Top CriticRole Models crosses plenty of familiar territory, but Wain and his merry band of mischief-makers offer a likeable, laughable mix of testosterone and heart.
11/07/08
Top CriticAt times, there's a sense the writers are trying to shoehorn sexual crudity into the plot to hit the young male market, but that feels uncomfortably out of place in a movie about helping children.
11/07/08
Top CriticA riotous comedy from director David Wain.
11/07/08
Top CriticFilth and sentimentality -- the yin- yang combo of current guy comedy -- entwine in Role Models with the naughty bits overpowering the funny.
11/07/08
Top CriticThe general tone is one of crusty, unapologetic misanthropy, driven home by the formidable Rudd (who also kicked in on the script).
11/07/08
Top CriticRole Models plays well within the Judd Apatow playpen, but its shaggy-dog dyspepsia renders it both less commercial and a little more dangerous, and Rudd is why. He's W.C. Fields trapped in the body of Cary Grant.
11/07/08
Top CriticThe script's rampant wrongness would have been amusing enough on the page, but the delivery from the cast makes the material consistently laugh-out-loud funny.
11/07/08
Top CriticRole Models pours sugar and cream on everything and turns it to mush.
11/07/08
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