Rent Role Models (2008)
3.3 of 5 from 218 ratings
1h 37min
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- Synopsis:
Unconventional salesmen, stuck-in-a-rut Danny (Paul Rudd) and lady's man Wheeler (Seann William Scott), spend their days promoting Minotaur energy drink to school students. Full of self-loathing and driven to delirium after being dumped by girlfriend. Beth (Elizabeth Banks), Danny lashes out on an energy drink bender, trashing both the company truck and school property, resulting in the arrest of both him and Wheeler. Wheeler and Danny are faced with a choice; either do time in jail or clock one hundred and fifty hours as mentors for troubled children. These unlikely role models are assigned to the most difficult children on offer, making them contemplate jail as an easier option! Danny is paired with dorky role playing loner, Augie, whilst Wheeler is the latest victim of booby obsessed, foul-mouthed Ronnie. - Actors:
- Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott, Elizabeth Banks, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Jane Lynch, Ken Jeong, Ken Marino, Kerri Kenney, A.D. Miles, Joe Lo Truglio, Matt Walsh, Nicole Randall Johnson, Alexandra Stamler, Carly Craig, Jessica Morris, Vincent Martella, Armen Weitzman, Jorma Taccone, Nate Hartley
- Directors:
- David Wain
- Writers:
- Timothy Dowling, W. Blake Herron
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Comedy
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 11/05/2009
- Run Time:
- 99 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French DTS 5.1, Spanish DTS 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English, English Hard of Hearing, French, Spanish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- Hilarious deleted scenes and alternate takes
- Outrageous cast and crew interviews and behind the scenes footage
- Create your own medieval crest with Ye Old Crest Maker
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Reviews (3) of Role Models
Plastic Models - Role Models review by CP Customer
This is tame inoffensive comedy, featuring several familiar faces who have cranked out a career producing such stale garbage. Role Models and its path is pretty clear, having shown the extent of its intent within the first ten minutes. Leaving you to sit through the occasional laugh to see if you predicted everything correctly. And you will!
1 out of 4 members found this review helpful.
Silly Comedy (But with Big Laughs) - Role Models review by GI
A typically silly, and it gets more so as it goes on, adult and arguably puerile comedy that does have laugh out loud moments courtesy of the two leads, Seann William Scott and Paul Rudd, who improvised many of their lines and have that hilarious ability to make knowing looks that almost break the fourth wall but not quite. They play a couple of losers, Wheeler and Danny, trapped in a dead end job with Wheeler constantly on the look out for his next shag and Danny hopelessly in love with his fiancée, Beth (Elizabeth Banks) but with their relationship failing. After Danny loses his temper they end up with a choice of jail or a sort of community service with a private organisation run by Sweeeny, played by the hilarious Jenny Lynch. They opt for the latter and have to spend their days as the adult 'friend' of a couple of lonely kids, the unsociable Ronnie (Bobb'e J. Thompson) and weird Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), who is obsessed with a bunch of equally weird people who spend their days role playing as medieval knights. This is one aspect of the film that is pushed to the point of farce and makes the entire film too predictable and clichéd. But Rudd and Scott have a good buddy chemistry that works to keep the viewer amused even if you end up wondering why there's a need to show some breasts every so often or resort to the characters simply ranting at each other to get laughs from the F word.
0 out of 0 members found this review helpful.
Good characters but very few laughs. - Role Models review by CP Customer
This is a half decent film which has some great characters and decent dialogue but is ultimately let down by a real lack of comedy. There are plenty of moments that will make you smile and give you the odd chuckle, by very little in terms of ‘real laugh out loud’ moments. The story uses the tried and tested formula of two likeable though slightly narcissistic guys who redeem themselves by doing the right thing by the end of the film, and even though the plotline is predictable it’s really the various characters, especially the foul mouthed 10 year old Ronnie, and the likeability of Seann William Scott and Paul Rudd, that carry the film. It’s a shame; if the producers had hired someone to inject a few more laughs into the script then this could have been a great film instead of just an ok one. If you liked ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’, ‘Superbad’ and ‘Knocked Up’ then this is worth a look, though don’t expect too many laughs.
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