Role Models (2008) Critic Reviews

Misfits and misanthropes are the heroes of Role Models, a surprisingly clever comedy.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

Laden with more than enough profane humor to warrant its R rating, this is nonetheless a formulaic crowd-pleaser.Read the full review

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

Furiously raunchy, occasionally bright and eventually benumbing comedy.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

In its loose, ramshackle, gleefully profane first half, Role Models suggests "School Of Rock" with Tourette's, or the original "Bad News Bears" without the baseball.Read the full review

You can probably figure out how this is all going to end, but it still has more laughs than you might think. Nobody gets more than the wonderful Jane Lynch as the ex-drug addict and director of the mentoring program.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