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(1 - 33) of 33 OFCS Rating: 70% Fresh Page   1   "Unfortunately, it's not long before 'Role Models' wusses out and becomes the corny, feel-good dreck it tried so hard not to turn into."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari 4/5 "Each bottom feeding joke manages to be more side-splitting than the last."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke 3.5/5 "It may be slight, it may be derivative, but this comedy for (if not quite about) adults is also deliriously funny."   Channel 4 Film   Anton Bitel 3.5/5 "Offering a trio of elements so effective that they literally blot out almost everything that's bad, (the film) finds a way to milk the current craze for anything Apatow into a sweet, sarcastic slice of coming of age affection"   PopMatters   Bill Gibron B "Coming dangerously close to self-parody at times, Role Models remains a light but heartily funny diversion, best served with a raucous audience who appreciate a masterful KISS joke when they see one."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf 3/5 "Proudly irrelevant and inconsequential as it is, Role Models is buoyant and funny and has enough sense not to take itself seriously."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin C+ "The 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."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Role 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."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs B- "It climaxes poorly with a wishful pat ending. But by that time, the film had won me over."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "When the finale of your movie involves a twenty-minute fantasy battle between role-playing enthusiasts, it is safe to say you have lost your way."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B+ "Manages to carve out a niche of its own: the formulaic, mildly post-modern, potty-mouthed After School Special."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "David Wain's Role Models can both stand proudly alongside the recent spate of vulgar R-rated comedies and provide definitive proof why we no longer laugh at Sandler's films."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress C+ "Continues the trend of R-rated comedies mixing serious don't-bring-grandma vulgarity with totally unironic, all-stops-out sweetness and sentimentality."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Eugene Novikov 3/4 "Wain's loopy-minded laugher does carry some credible distinction as being somewhat earnest within its snappy, obnoxious boundaries."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C "A bit more imagination and sharper execution could have made this a winner. Instead it's a near-miss...a movie that plods along rather than taking off."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A very funny comedy that celebrates misfits who reach across the generations to salute each other as the wacky and wonderful oddballs they are."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "While Role Models can boast the occasionally funny joke, there's little else to recommend this derivative buddy film."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 4/5 "Role Models is foul-mouthed, warm-hearted, brilliantly stupid ... and the best comedy of the year."   Cinematical   James Rocchi "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 3/5 "what Drillbit Taylor should have been if it had gone for an R rating instead of the safe PG-13"   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr B- "...finds its humor in excess, the best of it from supporting players. Jane Lynch is at her most inspired..."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "[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."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 1/5 "I've been in the Kiss Army since first hearing 'Destroyer' at age 13, and I can safely say that, Mr. Wain, you've gone too far."   Film Threat   Matthew Sorrento 3/4 "Rudd, a longtime underappreciated utility player, knocks it out on this all-too-rare outing as a lead."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 3.5/4 "Has a very high high laugh-per-minute ratio."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B- "Paul Rudd, who has been the best thing in too many films, has co-created a film that manages to insult the intelligence of its characters without insulting the intelligence of its audience."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 2.5/4 "With low aspirations come low expectations comes modest surprise."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 4/5 "It takes a one-joke premise that might have suffered quite badly in the wrong hands and pulls it off thanks to a combination of a lot of inspired individual bits and a cast of actors who deliver them in such a way that you are laughing too hard to notice"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "Disarmingly likeable characters and a genuinely engaging story set this gross-out romp apart from other Apatow-style adult comedies"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C- "In this brand of comedy, nothing succeeds like excess, and this film is seriously deficient."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 6/10 "Anarchy reigns in this raunchy, profanity-laden, arrested development comedy about two immature buddies with commitment issues."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 7/10 "Where most mainstream comedies strain to make their jokes as zany and crazy as possible, Role Models has the unspeakable bravery to base almost all of its comedy on things that could actually happen."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 3/4 "What works is its canny deployment of reasonable warmth and, hold on to your hats, surprising smarts."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 33) of 33 OFCS Rating: 70% Fresh Page   1