Raunchy Roles in Abundance

Role Models.

I think they hype got the best of this movie. In the series of raunch and low brow fueled comedies that have come out in the past 5 or so years this one actually seemed particularly promising because of the concept. Yet at times while watching it I was feeling a little bit jipped. If we are being honest here I was much more pleased with Pineapple Express and laughed much harder and longer than I did with RM.

Certainly it had its high points. The return of Seann William Scott to something (anything) mainstream. Bobb'e J. Thompson as Ronnie was just gut busting. Watching Paul Rudd grow a heart as he battles in the army Kiss my Anthia. I am not saying it was without laughs. I would just say that only about 60% of it had good laughs. The rest of the laughs were ill executed, timed, or in poor taste (even for a comedy of this nature). Also the wrap up of all the characters story lines seemed a little contrived and since you weren't laughing that much you actually were able to take note of it.

While I had high hopes for this comedy to be the high point of the comedies I've seen in recent months it was not even close. Please see some of the other comedic movies I've recently recommended and after you have watched those then consider Role Models.

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