I wasn’t expecting too much of this movie when I saw the previews about two grown men having to take care of little kids with the title of “Role Models.” The AMC theatre we were in had a Power 106 promotion. It was funny to see the Power 106 guys competing with the AMC workers selling ice cream. It was a pretty lively crowd. Power 106 had little girls come up on stage to compete and do sexy dances. I don’t know about you, but this just feels wrong. Plus the movie we’re watching is rated R!
I’d also like to add that this one wannabe Mexican gangster was trying to jack people’s seats. He would just sit down on people’s saved seats, with his popcorn, and be obnoxious, cussing out loud and whining that he can’t find seats. Soon after, he was kicked out by security, and his entourage followed.
Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott are the two main characters. Paul Rudd plays the guy who always has something bad to say about a situation and hates his job. And it’s because of his cynical attitude towards everyday life that brings his long term relationship with Elizabeth Banks to an end. Seann William Scott plays the party guy who loves his job, sex, drugs, and Rock n Roll. Together, they work to promote Minotaur, an energy drink, to different schools.
Things go bad when Paul gets dumped, and loses it at their latest Minotaur school promotion. Their Minotaur vehicle, complete with horns and sound, gets towed, and Rudd isn’t having any of it. He jacks his ride back, playing tug of war with the tow truck, and ends up crashing into the school’s horse statue, doggie style.
Because of that incident, the two would have to go to jail for 30 days. When they get an offer to do community service, they take it, for fear of being raped in jail. They would have to join a big brother/little brother program started by a crackhead turned woman who loves to service kids, played by the wacky and funny Jane Lynch. I loved the bit where she would play with a pretzel dog, pushing the dog in and out.
Paul Rudd gets stuck with a nerdy kid played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse, AKA Mclovin’, who loves to role play as a knight and fight imaginery dragons, while Seann William Scott gets stuck with a potty mouthed, booby lovin’ kid (Bobb’e J. Thompson). Paul oddly enough joins a community of nerds who dresses up and roleplays as knights and royalty who meets up to do battle. This would later be used as the epic climax of the movie involving KISS. Paul at first was tells Christopher that he should wake up, stop pretending, and join the real world. But soon later, instead of changing Christopher, he realizes that it’s ok to do what you love, and not care about what other people think.
Seann and Bobb’e at first can’t stand each other. Instead of trying to preach to Bobb’e, Sean decides to be by his side by teaching him the ways of secret booby watching and the coolness of KISS, by telling him that their songs are really about getting laid with hot chicks, for example, Love Gun is really about Love Penis.
And the epic battle at the end, I won’t spoil too much, consists of dramtic deaths, which is funny because everybody takes the roleplay too serious. Think of it as paintball but with swords.
The movie is a laugh out loud entertaining comedy about two men whose lives are changed because of their littles, and the littles’ lives are better off because of their bigs. It’s a story with a good message hidden inside a raunchy comedy.
Grade: B
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