The fun of Role Models is that it's a high-concept movie executed with speed and finesse and the kind of brusquely tossed-off obscene banter that can get you laughing before you know what hit you.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Sometimes a shamelessly stoopid, proudly profane R-rated comedy is all you want out of life. Role Models more than fills the bill. It's killer funny.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The kind of comedy where funny people say funny things in funny situations, not the kind of comedy that whacks you with manic shocks to force an audible Pavlovian response.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
It's pretty formulaic stuff, and earns its R rating with profanity and unapologetically gratuitous female nudity, but somehow has a winning knuckleheaded charm.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Any movie that shows its heroes firing up a joint between stints as high-school anti-drug crusaders is true to its black little heart.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Misfits and misanthropes are the heroes of Role Models, a surprisingly clever comedy.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Robert Wilonsky
Wain, Marino, and Rudd pull it off because theirs is a funnier, brainier, bawdier brand of feel-good.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Neely Tucker
You can probably figure out how this is all going to end, but it still has more laughs than you might think. Nobody gets more than the wonderful Jane Lynch as the ex-drug addict and director of the mentoring program.Read Full Review »
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Slate: Dana Stevens
Role Models may not set its sights very high, but it comes by its emotional payoff honestly. And why isn't Paul Rudd in greater demand as a romantic comedy lead?Read Full Review »
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