Role Models - Mini-review

Rented this last week, and highly recommend this laugh riot. Paul Rudd was one of the writers of the script, and I just love anything he does. He could read the phone book with his sarcastic mug, and I'd eat it up. Paul Rudd's character loses his cool in a spetacular way after 10 years in a dead end job, and has to do over 100 hours of community service. He and his friend, played by Sean William Scott of Stiffler fame, are sent to a Big Brother type organization and given two of the toughest kids to mentor. Rudd gets a lonely nerd played by the kid who was McLovin' in Superbad, and Sean William Scott gets the most foul mouthed little kid you can possibly imagine. Jane Lynch, who has been one of Christopher Guest's regulars (she was in Best of Show as a dog trainer), plays the head of the Big Brother organization and a former drug addict. She had me on the floor laughing in scenes like this: "You think I'm a pushover? I used to eat cocaine for breakfast!"



I am so thrilled she has a part of the new dramedy Glee on Fox. She was hilarious in as the cheerleading coach: "You think this is hard! Try waterboarding! That's hard!" If you missed the preview after American Idol, you should check Glee out online here.

So, Role Models is three stars and most definitely worth a rental. Hilarious, and you can't beat a full on live action role playing battle scene! Yeah, the two guys grow up through their relationships with the kids, but it never gets overly sweet or maudlin. Really good writing, and the supporting characters are all top notch.