Synopsis
Aspiring actor John (Paul Rudd) and wannabe screenwriter Elliot (Patton Oswalt) are slacker best friends who have seen their dreams of stardom fizzle. With their 30th birthdays looming, they set out on a mission to become famous in the 24/7, celebrity-obsessed world. Through it all, our disheartened duo inadvertently become key witnesses in a high profile crime that sets the news cycle on fire, making them household names... but only if they can survive the infamy and worldwide shame.
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Cast
- Paul RuddJohn (voice)
- Patton OswaltElliot (voice)
- Hannibal BuressThe Nerd King (voice)
- Riki LindhomeLinda (voice)
- Kate MicucciSally (voice)
- Mike JudgeArchie (voice)
- Reid ScottBrett Anderson / Second Butler (voice)
- Molly ShannonBusiness Woman (voice)
- Matt BallardFirst Butler / Reporter Matt (voice)
- Eric BauzaAnchorman Eric (voice)
Recommendations
- 60
Screen Daily
Although the gags hit home throughout – as they should, with such a broad target – the script loses focus slightly in the final twenty minutes. - 50
The Film Stage
Unfortunately Nerdland doesn’t offer many surprises. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Aside from a supporting turn by Hannibal Buress as a king-of-the-geeks character, the film's most diverting ingredients are its aggressively crude character design and its sickly color palette. - 50
Variety
With a scuzzy style to match its sleazeball vision of spotlight desperation and depravity, this Tinseltown satire — led by voice work from Paul Rudd and Patton Oswalt — revels in the foulness of 21st-century pop culture, albeit to a degree that’s ultimately both exhausting and redundant. - 30
We Got This Covered
Much like its central characters, Nerdland is a dismal, unfunny failure, wasting all its potential and entirely unaware that it is every bit as stupid as the stupid people it so despises.
