Synopsis
Two salesmen 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.
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Cast
- Seann William ScottWheeler
- Paul RuddDanny Donahue
- Elizabeth BanksBeth
- Christopher Mintz-PlasseAugie Farks
- Bobb'e J. ThompsonRonnie Shields
- Jane LynchGayle Sweeny
- Ken JeongKing Argotron
- Ken MarinoJim Stansel
- Kerri KenneyLynette
- A.D. MilesMartin
Recommendations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
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. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
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. - 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
It's pretty formulaic stuff, and earns its R rating with profanity and unapologetically gratuitous female nudity, but somehow has a winning knuckleheaded charm. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Rudd and Scott hail from different universes of movie comedy, but manage together here just fine, particularly since each takes a different path. - 70
Variety
Laden with more than enough profane humor to warrant its R rating, this is nonetheless a formulaic crowd-pleaser. - 70
Village Voice
Wain, Marino, and Rudd pull it off because theirs is a funnier, brainier, bawdier brand of feel-good. - 67
Austin Chronicle
Misanthropy in the movies has a new face. And, surprising to say, it's a handsome one. A matinee-idol face, in fact. Some might even go so far as to call it "dreamy." It's the face of Paul Rudd. - 63
Chicago Tribune
Role Models wouldn't be anything without Mintz-Plasse, whose character occasions what may be the cinema's first really funny Marvin Hamlisch joke, and whose camera presence is at once unfailingly modest and distinctive.
