Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott are the employees of the Minotaur energy drinks company, driving round the country promoting the drink as a safe alternative to drugs (despite it turning your pee green). That is until Danny (Rudd) has an overly shitty day, and having been dumped by his lawyer girlfriend (Elizabeth Banks) immediately after he proposes to her, he gets into a fight with school security on one of the talks and is given the alternative of community service or face jail.When they are enlisted to help with the Sturdy Wings group as mentors to a couple of troubled kids things go from bad to worse. Wheeler’s (Scott) kid is a foul-mouthed boob obsessed urchin Ronnie (Bobb’e J Thompson) and Danny with the intraverted teenager Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) who lives his entire life through fantasy role playing….
Ahh, the American sex comedy… where would we be without you?
Role Models is the latest offering in the genre, though quite who its audience is, is hard to place. The kids are 11 and 18 and the adults in their 30s… its a good mix which ultimately shifts it away from being a simple teen sex comedy based around highschool environments. Bobb’e Thompson shines out with his direct delivery, which has a way of taking you by surprise – should a kid have a mouth like that?! He also, frankly gets some of the best lines.
There’s some nice messages in the film – not too cheesy, and played well within the context of the screwed up families, absent/unsupportive parents and escapism through role play. Heart-warming but also very very funny, and rather caustic too! Ah, go on…
A Cultural Crisis 