Thursday, 27 February 2014

Role Models (2008 David Wain)

Essentially a decent-hearted movie, filtered with crudity rather than sentimentality, and that's a good thing: shall we call it the Apatow Effect? Stands the acid test of still being laugh-out-loud funny after zero glasses of wine.

Energetically performed. And talking of the Apatow influence, there seems to be a stock company of recognisables who appear frequently such as:

Paul Rudd (everything)
Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad)
Jane Lynch & Elizabeth Banks (both 40 year old virgin)
Ken Jeong (Knocked Up, Pineapple Express)
Joe Lo Truglio (enthusiastic game player) (Pinepple Express, Superbad)
and all the others I didn't recognise.

Seann William Scott and Bobb'e J Thompson seem to be having a lot of fun with risqué material.

Photographed by Russ T. Alsobrook.

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