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Generally favorable reviews- based on 101 Ratings

  • Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott
  • Summary: Danny and Wheeler are two salesmen who 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. (Universal Pictures)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 31
  2. Negative: 2 out of 31
  1. The fun of Role Models is that it's a high-concept movie executed with speed and finesse and the kind of brusquely tossed-off obscene banter that can get you laughing before you know what hit you.
  2. Reviewed by: Ian Freer
    80
    A great example of the Emotionally Stunted Men Grow A Heart sub-genre. Role Models staves off the January blues and puts a marker down as 2009’s laugh-out-loud comedy to beat.
  3. 50
    It's disposable entertainment at its most extreme.
  4. Where on the evolutionary scale of wacky-dudes-learn-to-grow-up movies does Role Models fall? Certainly less evolved than "Meatballs," but head and hairy knuckles above "Daddy Day Care" or "The Benchwarmers."

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 43 out of 47
  2. Negative: 2 out of 47
  1. LauraS
    10
    Hilarious movie with total rewatchability. Perfectly cast.
  2. Solid comedy that I actually didn't think I would enjoy but ended up getting a nice surprise as it was quite funny! Both Paul Seann work great together and both of their 'kids' they have to watch are funny also. It's a good storyline with good messages behind the comedy that's originally presented. The jokes are also consistent and with hilarious characters throughout it's held up well Overall an enjoyable comedy with plenty to chuckle at, and it's well worth a look! Expand
  3. Role Models sadly does fall for the cliche that little kids saying swear words is still funny, but still Paul Rudd, Sean William Scott and Jane Lynch give very impressive performances which is too much to resist. I give this movie 64%. Expand
  4. GregA.
    0
    Quirky, funny, good looking actors, and the theater I was in was completely sold out with ages 17 - 25 or so (movie is rated R), all very young. The movie sends a great message to kids that says, even if others don't like it or don't appreciate it, you should just "be who you are." Unless your gay, that is. This movie sends a powerful and consistent "sub-message" as a major component of its humor that everyone should be wary and vigilant of anything that smacks of homosexuality. The movie includes full-volume use of the word "faggot" in its most pejorative sense (equivalent to the "N" word amongst gay and lesbian people, by the way). Several of its characters offer repeated expressions of concern that one or another of the kids in the movie might be gay, along with a showing of great relief that this concern is eventually resolved as unfounded. This movie's homophobic foundation sends a pretty awful message to the clearly sought-after young people, both straight and gay, that make up this movie's prime market. The writers and producers of this movie need a lot of enlightenment here, as do its hip adult and kid actors who are complicit in sending that message. The unabashed homophobia thoroughly woven into its plot structure is a disgraceful mark against this movie. Expand

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