Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Good concept, poorly executed.

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

First of all, what's with the sudden pop culture saturation of LARP- ing in the past few years? It went from a fringe, nerds-only oddity, to the subject of a few documentaries, to a large portion of a mainstream comedy. Craziness! As for a review of the actual movie, Role Models is a comedy that's a bit more palatable to female tastes than the average film of this kind. It has a positive core at the center of its amusing and slightly raunchy exterior. Paul Rudd is as funny as always, Sean William Scott does his usual thing, and Elizabeth Banks lends her beauty and potent appeal, but it's Jane Lynch who steals the spotlight in her short, but numerous scenes. It's nice to see that Arrested Development alums are still the funniest in the biz.Role Models isn't nearly as touching or heartfelt as many critics would have you believe, and I do feel like it could have been much funnier. But overall, it left me with a good impression after I finished watching it, and that makes it a success in my book.

Role Models (2008): Dir: David Wain / Cast: Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Elizabeth Banks: Title states that role models are those people who are there for children. The problem is that the advertizing poster showcases drunkenness and urination on walls, which defuses any positive message on the bases of being believable. Rushed premise regards Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott given community service mentoring children. What is truly wrong is the profanity coming from a fifth grader. Directed by David Wain with cheap production and a total lack of sincerity. Rudd was recently rejected by his girlfriend. Scott teaches a boy about graphic sexuality. Together they portray characters unfit to monitor a plant let alone a child. The fact that they become positive role models is completely phony. Christopher Mintz-Plasse plays a kid obsessed with fantasy. He is the type of kid who is subject to bullying and it isn't difficult to see why. Bobb'e J. Thompson plays the foul mouthed kid mentored by Scott. Thompson is perhaps the most disturbing element in the film. Elizabeth Banks wastes her comedic talent as the dull lawyer / girlfriend to the Rudd character. Despite the performances the film acts as no role model particularly within the boundaries it crosses. It should be stomped upon by a stampede of rhinos. Score: 1 / 10

There's something about watching a movie that has Sean William Scott in it,, I don't know if it's just because he makes me laugh, or it's just all of the raunchy humor he brings to the table.. in this one him and Paul Rudd are paired together, they wreck their truck into a school statue, and are faced with a 30 day jail term. but one of them makes a deal with the judge and they wind up with 150 hours community service,, the judge decides to enroll them in a big brother program, and they have 30 days to complete the program. the two little brothers are one that's obsessed with boobs,, and the other is into live fantasy role play games. This movie is a tale about 2 30 something men growing up and taking responsibility for someone else instead of themselves ,, actually heartworming to a point,, very funny movie though.

Absent acting. If it wasn't for Jane Lynch I'd have thought I was watching a elementary school play gone horribly wrong. Absent comedy. Sean William Scott (Wheeler) plays the exact same character he always plays: blubbery alcoholic (yet only sips 1-2 beers throughout entire movie?) that gets more kitty than a North Korean butcher--a tale as old as the Mt. Sianai tablets, yet shockingly even less intriguing. Paul Rudd (Danny) is the exact opposite: easily angered, wildly depressed over nothing and combative over stupid things such as an appropriate name for a coffee cup/size. Beth (played by Elizabeth Banks), who is Danny's wife in the movie, adds nothing. Oh ya, except that she also becomes Danny's and Wheeler's lawyer once Danny drives his pickup on top of a bull statue. Hilarious, I know.Next up are our two troubled kids in need: Christopher Mintz-Plasse (plays Augie) and Bobb'e J. Thompson (plays Ronnie). Augie is a teenager who is obsessed with LARP (Live Action Role Play) and literally walks the walk and talks the talk of a Dungeons and Dragons type-of-character. Ronnie is a foul-mouthed 5th grader that no one can seem to contain.Ultimately, Danny is marked up with Augie and Wheeler is marked up with Ronnie. Following that, worn-out settings (i.e. house parties, camping) and a rampage of monotonous comedy is flooded onto the viewer like a Jihadist during a water-boarding.I hope you're sitting down for the ending: Augie kisses the girl he's always had a crush on.Two stars for the magician guy during the LARP event (he had a 1.2 second scene--watch carefully or you might miss the movie's far and gone best scene).Like my title says: my yawn yawned.