
Danny and Wheeler, well into their 30s, lack something: Danny feels stuck; he's sour and has driven away his terrific girlfriend. Wheeler chases any skirt he sees for empty sex. When they get in a fight with a tow-truck driver, they choose community service over jail and are assigned to be big brothers - Danny to Augie, a geek who loves to LARP (Live Action Role Play), and Wheeler to Ronnie, a pint-size foul-mouthed kid. After a rocky start, things start to go well until both... (Full plot summary below)
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Danny and Wheeler, well into their 30s, lack something: Danny feels stuck; he's sour and has driven away his terrific girlfriend. Wheeler chases any skirt he sees for empty sex. When they get in a fight with a tow-truck driver, they choose community service over jail and are assigned to be big brothers - Danny to Augie, a geek who loves to LARP (Live Action Role Play), and Wheeler to Ronnie, a pint-size foul-mouthed kid. After a rocky start, things start to go well until both Danny and Wheeler make big mistakes. Can the two men figure out how to change enough to be role models to the boys?
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| Boxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonStill, it's not complete torture -- even when exerting minimal effort, Paul Rudd is hilarious. |
| Associated PressChristy LemireThe script's rampant wrongness would have been amusing enough on the page, but the delivery from the cast makes the material consistently laugh-out-loud funny. |
| PopMattersCynthia FuchsRole Models invites you to celebrate the kingdom as advertised on its website: a "fantasy world where anything is possible" at least if you're a boy in need of approval. |
| Detroit NewsAdam GrahamA riotous comedy from director David Wain. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn Johanson[The] usual Frankensteinien assemblage of tittering about bodily fluids, casual homophobia, random emotionless sex acts, and other such expressions of apparently unoutgrowable male adolescent anxiety that passes for American comedy these days. |
| CinematicalJames RocchiRole Models is foul-mouthed, warm-hearted, brilliantly stupid ... and the best comedy of the year. |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealYou know exactly where it's going, but you're happy anyway because the most predictable part of the movie is how much it will make you laugh. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyThe film's by-committee script is to blame for a cringe-worthy movie that could have worked much better had the younger characters been just a few years older. |
| Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)Greg Maki... One of the best recent comedies not bearing the Apatow name. |
| CinematicalWilliam GossThere's a constant sarcastic rapport between Rudd and Scott right from the get-go that makes the wholly expected plot developments easier to stomach. |