Saying Role Models has heart would be accurate, though I’m recommending this title based on the film’s ever-constant stream of laughs

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 30, 2023

Just when a heartrending moment draws the audience in, a jolting blast of vulgarity induces inescapable laughter.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 28, 2020

A 10-year-old who has no problem dropping the F-bomb? Parents are likely to cringe and/or think they accidentally walked into a Billy Bob Thornton movie.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 21, 2020

There just isn't enough here to warrant spending two hours on, especially when it's all been done before, and better, somewhere else.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 6, 2019

Director David Wain wrongly seems to think that puerile, lewd behaviour is funny by default; subtlety is not in his repertoire.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2018

The cringe-inducing moments... will offend anyone who isn't an adolescent (or adolescent-minded) boy and will likely keep Rudd from seeing the same success Black experienced.

| Oct 10, 2018

Role Models flourishes thanks to a deceptively simple formula: It's well-written, superbly directed, and features charismatic leads and a comedically gifted ensemble.

| Aug 17, 2018

If there's any justice, Role Models will see Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott propelled to the status of comedy Gods.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2012

| Original Score: B- | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Two boyish mentors bond with their charges in a swift comedy that lampoons Big Brother programs and the world of live-action role-play.

| Aug 15, 2011

Rudd and Scott aren't stretching any new muscles, but Rudd's glum disaffection and Scott's bozo bonhomie do gel with a satisfying stickiness. They handle the gaping innuendo with such delicacy we know that they know they're better than this.

| Jul 6, 2010

Role Models is Rudd's first screenplay credit, and to that all we can say is, what on earth took so long?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 6, 2010

Role Models plays loose and easy, but not to the point of being lazy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 6, 2010

This is an obviously contrived plot, but the script, co-written by Rudd, director David Wain, support actor Ken Marino and writer Tim Dowling, is packed with great jokes...

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 6, 2010

A formulaic movie can be lifted out of its built-in rut by making it look like it invented the formula. Almost everything works here.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 6, 2010

Role Models could have been another formulaic comedy, fresh off the assembly line. Instead, the work of Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott here is worthy of praise and one of the funnier films this year.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 6, 2010

A light but heartily funny diversion, best served with a raucous audience who appreciate a masterful KISS joke when they see one.

| Jul 6, 2010

A typically underwhelming post-Apatow comedy...

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 9, 2010

There's a constant sarcastic rapport between Rudd and Scott right from the get-go that makes the wholly expected plot developments easier to stomach.

| Dec 17, 2009