Role Models
Role Models
R | 07 November 2008 (USA)
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Two salesmen trash a company truck on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard time or spend 150 service hours with a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn't look half bad.

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TrueJoshNight

Truly Dreadful Film

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Blucher

One of the worst movies I've ever seen

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Breakinger

A Brilliant Conflict

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Livestonth

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

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darokios-19762

I've liked this movie since it came out in 2008 I remember renting the DVD once it came out I always watched it when it was playing on TV. So fast-forward 8 years into the future, I'm now a university student studying film, In class and the teacher tells us that we are going to watch a movie, we walk into the screening room and the teacher plugs his hard drive full of movies and asks us what movie we want to watch. The obvious choice here would have been back to the future, but Nooo the people in class are apparently too stupid to realize that we would have to work on the movie after we watch it and they picked role models, a movie that even though not bad is plainer than a slice of white bread. Back to the future in the other hand is a bloody masterpiece. Rarely do you ever see a movie that takes such complicated concepts and conveys them in an easy to understand manner while still being accurate. The characters are amazing off the bat I understand and sympathize with all of them and I feel like I want to see them succeed. The script is awesome, foreshadowing stuff that's going to happen in the past and has some amazing dialogue. The special effects are as good as they are iconic(except for jaws 19 cause the shark still looks fake). I think I could ramble about this movie for way more that a pages but my point is that neither of these movies happen to have any similarities to Garfield: A tale of two kitties so that's why I give the movie two stars

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lewiskendell

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.

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spitfire2356

Well. I was in a very good mood. I had had a hard but satisfying workday, a good gym session and a nice dinner. I thought that a good comedy would round up the evening. IMDb ratings are supposed to guide people to steer away from bad movies.People have no time to waste. I simply just cannot understand how this stodgy stuff gets such a high rating. Even Metacritic is also favorable. Some nominations as well. Well there is one win I definitely agree with - the most offensive Male character award. Hands down, show of hands or count of rotten tomatoes. I honestly can't get my head around how there are so many morons to actually like such a dull excuse for a plot, such repellent characters, really offensive speech - especially when kids are involved. The movie was supposed to end with a feel good take home message. I definitely did not stay up for that. It lost all credibility to do that, with the 'drunken lecture at school' scene. A later scene sums up all that's bad in this movie. An 8 year old (does he really have to be black) slaps his would be carer in the face. Are we supposed to laugh at this? I felt this slap as symbolic of what the whole movie did to me. It made me switch off immediately. This is ultimate sewage 'humor' for moronic psychopaths. It ruined our evening.This was the worst movie experience in our life.

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Chris Keen

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.

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