Role Models (2008) Critic Reviews

Any movie that shows its heroes firing up a joint between stints as high-school anti-drug crusaders is true to its black little heart.Read the full review

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 the full review

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 the full review

It's disposable entertainment at its most extreme.Read the full review

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 the full review

A funny and twisted movie from beginning to end, closing with an emotional payoff.Read the full review

Role Models may not set its sights very high, but it comes by its emotional payoff honestly. And why isn't Paul Rudd in greater demand as a romantic comedy lead?Read the full review

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

With the ferocity of a drill instructor and the boundless confidence of a self-help guru who combines psychobabble clichés with embarrassingly explicit confessions, Ms. Lynch's Gayle redeems the movie from utter banality.Read the full review