Rating: Popcorn
After trashing their energy drink company’s truck, Danny and Wheeler are summoned to spend either 30 days in jail or 150 service hours in a mentorship program. After the salesmen’s first day with the kids, being locked up behind bars doesn’t seem like a bad idea.
Surrounded by annoying mentors, Danny has a hard time guiding Augie, a 16-year-old boy who’s obsessed with medieval role playing, through the trials leading into manhood. Instead, he uses his sarcastic ways to put down the teen.
At the same time, Wheeler is having difficulties helping fifth-grader Ronnie turn away from his filthy language. It would help the kid if his mentor wasn’t addicted to partying and women.
When the mentorship center’s ex-con ex-coke addict director gives the two guys an ultimatum, Danny and Wheeler must clean up their acts or else they’ll have to spend some time in jail. All they need to do is to get through their probationary period without being sent to jail and then they’ll be able to prove that it doesn’t take a whole community to raise a child, but just one idiot.
Starring Paul Rudd (Knocked Up), Seann William Scott (American Pie), Elizabeth Banks (Zack and Miri Make a Porno), Bobb’e J. Thompson (Fred Claus), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad), and Jane Lynch (40-Year-Old Virgin), Role Models is a hilarious adult comedy filled with crude language. For the majority of the film, I find myself laughing at the sarcastic, crude and timely lines, especially those coming from Ronnie (Thompson). You never know what’s about to come out of the mouth of this foulmouthed fifth grader. One moment he’s telling off his mentor Wheeler (Seann William Scott) and then the next moment he’s graphically describing his fascination with body parts of the opposite sex.
I also like how the mentors are paired up with young boys that have similar issues. Danny and Augie are both having hard times: Danny is trying to get his life back on the road and attempting to get back together with his ex-girlfriend Beth while Augie has some big obstacles in his way to becoming the king of his medieval role playing game and hooking up with the girl of his dreams. On the other hand, Wheeler and Ronnie have a lot in common as they are both rude in many aspects of their lives, including their language, their views of women and their love for partying.
Here are some lines from when Paul Rudd’s character, Danny, orders a large coffee at the coffee shop:
Danny: Can I get a large black coffee?
Barista: A what?
Danny: Large black coffee.
Barista: Do you mean a venti?
Danny: No, I mean a large.
Barista: Venti is large.
Danny: No venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact tall is large and grande is spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn’t mean large. It’s also the only one that’s italian. Congratulations you’re stupid in three languages.
Barista: A venti is a large coffee.
Danny: Really says who: Fellini? Do you accept lira or is it all euros now?
If you’re looking to have a fun time, be entertained and laugh, Universal Pictures’ Role Models is the movie to see! It won’t teach you much about how to be a good role model, but it’ll definitely provide you with some laughs and some fun carefree times.
Release Date: November 7, 2008
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