Role Models (2008)

A bit of profane fluff with lots of music references (after you see the movie, check out this post by another blogger. To do so before would spoil it). Jon had asked me for a suggestion a few weeks ago -- something to see that wouldn't be bloody nor depressing. This was something we planned to see and he reported it was a couple of entertaining hours. Jack & I agree. We laughed every couple of minutes. Paul Rudd is good at petulant (and so many other things, e.g. The Shape of Things (2003) and Knocked Up (2007)), and Jane Lynch is great at playing cheerful-with-a-shady-past, as she did in A Mighty Wind (2003) and For Your Consideration (2006). Christopher Mintz-Plasse, as Augie Farks (which name is worse? Poor kid) is still doing McLovin from Superbad (2007), and 12 year old Bobb'e J. Thompson has great comic timing as the foul-mouthed other kid. Yeah, it's predictable, but fun.