Role Models Review

Never before have i been so brilliantly suprised by a film.  Role Models is a fabulous, silly, belly laughing comedy that you can watch over and over again without it getting old.  Inspired by the likes of Superbad and Drillbit Taylor, it keeps providing laugh after laugh and is easily a match for Step Brothers for comedy film of the year!

David Wain, not a particularly notorious or well known director, has created a great film that has rightly been praised and deserves to do well in the box office.  Paul Rudd and Sean William Scott star in Role Models and although they may seem an unlikely pairing but they play off each other very well, Wheeler (Scott) is the slightly dumb, good looking guy who gets it all where as Danny (Rudd) is sarcastic, miserable and still in love with Beth (Elizabeth Banks).  Each line in the film is well written and delivered very well by three increasingly funnier comedic actors (Scott, Rudd & Banks).  Mintz-Plasse (Augie, also played Fogel in Superbad) plays a lonely young teen who has his heart set on doing one thing, living in a fantasy role playing world called Laire. While J.Thompson plays Ronnie, a 10 year old with bundles of attitude.

Wheeler & Danny are two reps working for an energy drink company (Minotaur), touring schools and telling kids to stay off of drugs and generally not much else, all the trouble starts after Wheeler throws Danny a surprise party celebrating 10 years at Minotaur and as he is not one for surprises he gets annoyed, ends up breaking up with Beth, crashes the Minotaur car into a statue.  They both then get threatened with prison or 150 hours of community service, wanting the community service they get banded with two kids and after getting off to a shaky start, both parties start to enjoy themselves until it all go's wrong.  

At this point the films starts to give a strong message, Do whatever makes you happy! The final scene is epic to say the least and it creates an atmosphere, thanks to people aged 10 to 35 or so playing with foam swords and fighting each other.  It all works out in the end, Augie's parents accept him, Ronnie learns to respect others, Wheeler carries on as normal and Danny & Beth get back together thanks to his willingness to sort it all out.

Overall Role Models is a fascinating comedy that really does deliver laughs in bundles and has a message wrapped up in it.  For a comedy that you can enjoy and take a message from this is a great film and definitely worth a trip or two to the cinema.