Role Models

Name: Role Models
Genre: Comedy
Released: November 7, 2008
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Elizabeth Banks, Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott

2008

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Generally favorable reviews based on 33 Critics

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: November 7, 2008

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]

Director: David Wain

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 99 min

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75	#75 Most Discussed Movie of 2008

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Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman

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. Read full review

Rolling Stone - Peter Travers

Sometimes a shamelessly stoopid, proudly profane R-rated comedy is all you want out of life. Role Models more than fills the bill. It's killer funny. Read full review

Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert

The kind of comedy where funny people say funny things in funny situations, not the kind of comedy that whacks you with manic shocks to force an audible Pavlovian response. Read full review

Chicago Reader - J.R. Jones

The general tone is one of crusty, unapologetic misanthropy, driven home by the formidable Rudd (who also kicked in on the script). Read full review

The Hollywood Reporter - John DeFore

Rudd and Scott hail from different universes of movie comedy, but manage together here just fine, particularly since each takes a different path. Read full review

Baltimore Sun - Michael Sragow

Role Models has a tart surface and a heart of goo. The movie grows more obvious as it goes along. Read full review

Film Threat - Matthew Sorrento

If "Models'" comedy is a bore, the characters' redemption is sheer agony – not to mention the shameless pop-cultural referencing that repeats like a bad taco. Read full review

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Nazgulero

Jul 1, 2011

I was ROFL for the entire length of the movie ! And I am 45 years old...not really sure what that says about me. Great cast, great script...bulls's eye !

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RichardO.

Nov 10, 2008

Really good movie. Better than expected. This is Christopher Mintz Plasse's coming out party.

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SimonB.

May 17, 2009

Ridiculously funny! Casting is perfect and the banter between the main characters is classic.

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ChazHay

Jan 12, 2009

Loved it. It's a hell of a lot of fun and the characters are great.

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Zilcell

Dec 2, 2011

It is actually pretty funny. The acting was unexpectedly great. There are not a lot of reasons to not see this intensely humorous comedy with great performances.

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FrenchToast

Oct 13, 2018

Overall good comedy with a positive message. Was a little too elementary at times, with Sean William Scott's character being a little too juvenile, but other people play their parts well.

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GregA.

Nov 10, 2008

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 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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