Role Models

Wheeler (Seann William Scott, Stiffler from American Pie) and Danny Donahue (Paul Rudd, who also gets a screenwriter credit here) are the two worst role models you could ever hope your kids to be hooked up with. That's basically the pitch. Wheeler and Danny are in dead-end jobs, only Wheeler does not know it. When Danny comes face to face with this fact, and a break-up with his girlfriend Beth (Elizabeth Banks), he looses it and crashes the promotional truck they drive from school to school touting an energy drink. To keep themselves out of jail they have to become "bigs" for an after school mentor program. Their "littles" are a sassy, foul mouthed little kid named Ronnie (Bobb'e J. Thompson) and a little-too-old for the program, role-playing geek, Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse or as we know him, McLovin'). While the story gets a little corny in a few places, overall the interaction between Wheeler and Danny and the kids is hilarious. Jane Lynch, who has made a career out of playing weirdos (she is always a special treat in any Christopher Guest movie) does it again as the overly enthusiastic director of the mentor program. But the guy who takes the cake for weird is Ken Jeong. You might remember him from the guy who jumps out of the trunk of a car, naked and attacks the bachelors in The Hangover. In Role Models he plays King Argotron the ruler of the role-playing world. Equally creepy and scene stealing. As I said, this movie gets a little cheesy at the end, but it is still very funny and a great weekend rental.