Review of Role Models (2008) by Brendan C — 06 Jun 2013

Role Models is a great movie. It is both funny as hell, and a really good movie at the same time. The film is very entertaining, and fun, because of some really funny people, and a good story. It is funny throughout, and there are many unexpected funny things in it. It can be very crude at times, but not crude to the point where it is uncomfortable. They balance out the amount of silly jokes; with the amount of crude or inappropriate jokes, which I felt like, was a good thing. It was a pretty well done comedy, which I have watched a few times.

Wheeler (Seann William Scott) and Danny (Paul Rudd) work together going around to different schools trying to teach kids to stay off drugs, and drink the energy drink that they are trying to promote. They are both polar opposites. Wheeler is this really happy guy who loves everything, and he loves the job he does, because of how easy it is, while Danny can't see the positive in anything, and hates everything. Danny proposes to his girlfriend Beth (Elizabeth banks) out of impulse after she tells him how he doesn't take joy in anything anymore. She brakes up with him there, and that is rock bottom for him. After a presentation they drive their Minotaur truck into a school statue when it is getting towed.

They are sentenced to community service, and they have to go to sturdy wings. A charity where kids are given a buddy that they hang out with. Wheeler is supposed to look after a boy named Ronnie (Bobb'e J. Thompson) who is a really foul mouthed and crude kid. However I think he is the funniest part of the movie. He has many lines that I just love. I won't spoil them though. Danny is partnered up with a kid named Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) who is obsessed with reenacting battles in a place called LAIRE. The part with the battles in LAIRE I felt like really made that stuff look ridiculous. That was one of the funniest parts of the film.

I really liked this film. I thought that the childish relationship between Danny and Wheeler was great. I also liked the way that they developed the relationship between Danny and Augie, and the relationship between Wheeler and Ronnie. The experience of going to Sturdy Wings really helped everybody in the end, and I liked the way they showed that. It was a really good movie, and it was really entertaining. Not one that I quote frequently, but there are a few quotable liens in there too. Enjoyable for pretty much any audience, except for young kids.