{"id":1977,"date":"2008-11-16T18:10:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T22:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2008-11-16T18:10:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T22:10:29","slug":"role-models-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/11\/16\/role-models-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Role Models–Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe standard formula for a movie comedy these days seems to involve thirty-something men who haven’t yet grown up. There is nothing particularly original about Role Models<\/em><\/a> but it manages to be one of the funnier examples of the genre, with a satisfying balance of off-color humor and sentimentality.<\/p>\n

At least in this case the heroes have jobs and don’t live with their parents. Danny (Paul Rudd) and Wheeler (Seann William Scott) work for a soft drink company, traveling from school to school lecturing the kids about drugs. “Remember, if somebody offers you drugs, just say ‘No thanks, I’m having a Minotaur!'”. (Minotaur is a powerful energy drink. It’s made from caffeine and ginseng, and it can turn your urine bright green.)<\/p>\n

Wheeler is perfectly content with this life, but Danny is fed up. He’s disillusioned, depressed and angry, and he’s drunk enough Minotaur to anesthetize a bull. He ends up assaulting a cop and driving the Minotaurmobile into a statue.
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\nIn Movieland judges are always eager to make lawbreaking losers work with troubled children, so Danny and Wheeler are sentenced to do 150 hours of community service at a Big Brother-like program. (Jane Lynch is particularly hilarious as the program’s street-wise but slightly addled organizer.) When they are assigned to a foul-mouthed violent little kid and an ultra-nerdy LARPing teenager they wonder whether it might be better to go to jail.<\/p>\n

This is all very formulaic, but if you are good enough you can turn an old formula into something that is clever and fun. This movie manages to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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