Alyssa Herman
Movie review
Role Models is a comedy about two loser best friends who work at an energy drink company. They get arrested for crashing a truck and then sentenced to 150 hours of community service or 30days in jail. Each of them has to act like big brother to a kid with major adjustment problems. They are assigned one kid and have to perform “big brother” activities with them. Danny (Paul Rudd), a 35-year-old mope who sounds as if his soul has been burnt to a crisp, and Wheeler (Seann William Scott), a woman chaser without a single mean bone in his body, arrive at the Sturdy Wings mentorship center and discover that trying to actually, you know, communicate with a kid is their own special therapy.
Wheeler is assigned to a 9 year-old handful of trouble, (Bobb'e J. Thompson) as mentally active as he is misbehaved, while Danny gets stuck with Augie, a narrow-minded teenage dork who devotes his afternoons to organized role-play. Christopher Mintz-Plasse plays this super-dweeb with such passion that you're not sure if you want to laugh at him, give him a pep talk, or slap him.
The four of them have their individual ups and downs, but soon realize how important one another are. The twisted comedy is based on friendship and not being selfish.
I would recommend this movie to anyone over the age of twelve. And who enjoys a good laugh.
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