Musings on movies, suitable for reading before or after you see them. I write about things I liked WITHOUT SPOILERS. The only thing I hate more than spoilers is reviewers' trashing movies because they think it makes them seem smart. Movie title links are usually links to blog posts. Click here for an alphabetized index of movies on this blog with a count.
Friday, December 19, 2008
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.
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