| Original Score: B- | Feb 18, 2012

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

Role Models is a film for the nerds, by the nerds. Lucky for Role Models, the rest of our culture is catching up and are invited along as well.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Aug 13, 2009

No one is going to marvel at the actors' Stanislavsky-like artistry, but Scott and Rudd are fun to watch and their bickering is hilarious...

| Jan 22, 2009

A great example of the Emotionally Stunted Men Grow A Heart sub-genre. Role Models staves off the January blues and puts a marker down as 2009's laugh-out-loud comedy to beat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2009

The upbeat ending is inevitable but the script's undercurrent of scalding sarcasm keeps it fresh.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 9, 2009

Role Models is exuberantly staged, fitfully funny and boasts a glorious supporting turn from Jane Lynch as the demagogic onetime addict.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 9, 2009

The wonderful Jane Lynch (40-Year-Old Virgin) steals each of her scenes as the charity project leader, a reformed cokehead singing from the right-on community care hymnsheet.

| Jan 9, 2009

Neither Rudd nor Scott are naturally funny performers, and neither are nearly as effective as their two young charges. Lynch's Sturdy Wings manager is easily the best bet for laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 9, 2009

Rudd, who co-wrote the script with director David Wain (among others), clearly learned a few things working on Judd Apatow comedies.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 21, 2008

Role Models follows a well-worn path, but thanks to a sure-footed cast and crew, it doesn't just go through the motions.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 14, 2008

Role Models wobbles like crazy en route to a surprisingly strong finish.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 10, 2008

You can probably figure out how this is all going to end, but it still has more laughs than you might think.

| Nov 7, 2008

Something bizarre starts to happen around the halfway mark, perhaps because no one knew how to develop the original premise.

Full Review | Nov 7, 2008

It's pretty formulaic stuff, and earns its R rating with profanity and unapologetically gratuitous female nudity, but somehow has a winning knuckleheaded charm.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 7, 2008

There are three things that every modern screen comedy needs: references to old KISS songs, guys dressed as knights whacking each other with foam swords, and a potty-mouthed 10-year-old.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 7, 2008

Like any formula, it can work if done well, and Role Models is strewn with enough serendipities to make it a worthy variation on the dudes-grow-up genre.

| Nov 7, 2008

It's not the best comedy of the season, but it's far from the worst, and some days that's more than enough.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 7, 2008