5/5 Laugh out loud
  by Bryan Leahy
This movie made me laugh out loud. The first time I've done so since The Wedding Crashers.

5/5 funny but uncouth
  by Derrick Kuiper (Lake Mary, FL USA)
This movie is absolutely hysterical even if it is a bit uncouth at times. It is also one of those rare comedies that you can watch multiple times and still laugh your ass off. I have seen both the dvd and blu ray versions, and the blu ray looks absolutely incredible. It looks amazing for a movie that really does not have any special effects. It was like looking out a window at the actors. For the price, you might as well get the blu ray.

3/5 An average comedy romp that's good for laughs.
  by Mike (Here and There)
Synopsis: Danny Donhaue (Paul Rudd) and Anson Wheeler (Seann William Scott) work in promotions for the energy drink "Minotaur", which involves them going from school-to-school getting kids hooked on energy drinks under the guise that they won't do drugs. Donahue's ongoing arrogance and apathetic attitude start to wear on his relationship with girlfriend/attorney Beth Jones (Elizabeth Banks) while Wheeler's a Kiss-obsessed playboy whom no one can really take seriously. Well, after a mishap involving their Minotaur truck and the local law enforcement at one of the schools they visited, the two are court ordered to act as the "big brothers" to two children who lack a "father figure" in their life. Donahue's assigned to care for the extremely introverted and fantasy-oriented Augie Farks (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) while Wheeler must look after the foul-mouthed Ronnie Shields (Bobb'e J. Thompson). Will the men find themselves while helping the boys find maturity or will their attitudes ruin their court ordered community service... and send them to prison?

Now, this film wasn't so much outwardly funny as much as it had consistent humor from start to finish. There was an amazing pedigree of talent that stems from two main players: The State (David Wain wrote, directed, and acted in the film while Kerri Kenney-Silver, Joe Lo Truglio, and Ken Marino all had acting roles in the film) and Judd Apatow (Paul Rudd, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Elizabeth Banks, Ken Jeong, and Jane Lynch have all been in Apatow films). Put it all together and unless the script was a pure disaster, the movie ought to be good enough to check out, which it is.

I recommend it for comedy fans and people who want to throw something on while having a good time.

3/5 Two strange guys as Role Models
  by Jim Gateley (Sunnyvale, CA)
3 of 5 stars for the comedy movie Role Models. Take Seann William Scott (American Pie fame) and add Paul Rudd and you have the "Bigs" (aka the role models). How did we get there? OK, these two guys have the job of doing school road-shows to sell the kids an "Energy Drink". Well, buzzed on the drink, the guys get into some ah ah trouble. The judge says, community service with a group called "Sturdy Wings" (a "big brother" kind of group). So our two heros get paired as "Bigs" for two problem kids.

Rudd's kid is into live acting fantasy combat (like dungeons and dragons). Scott's kid as a bad attitude. Needless to say, our heros are not into doing this community service work. The movie is all about how the "Bigs" grow and develop helpful relationships with the kids ("Littles"). It is fun how the four come together at the end to help each other.

A funny, nice and entertaining movie. Oh, I should point out that it has adult themes and some nudity so it is really a movie for "Bigs" not "Littles". Worth watching!

4/5 MANY RAUNCHY LAUGHS FOR HALF THE FAMILY!
  by David R. Eastwood (Long Island, NY)
Even if only half of the humorous bits of ROLE MODELS succeed for you, you will consider this is a very funny movie!

The premise is that, to avoid jail time, Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott (as Danny and Wheeler) perform community service as big brothers to a pair of troubled boys: a geeky adolescent (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and a garbage-mouthed youth (Bobb'e J. Thompson). The pay-off scene is the wonderfully hilarious medieval role-playing game in which these four wear costumes deliberately like those of the band Kiss.

Jane Lynch is outstanding as the well-meaning but drug-damaged and very addled director of the organization pairing the children with their "bigs." By the end of the film almost all of the characters have grown and changed for the better (in ways that may not be believable but which are enjoyable nonetheless).

Chiefly because of the abundance of raunchy language, most parents would not want their small children to view this very funny film with them. (By the way, both the "theatrical" version and the "unrated" one are included on the DVD disk; both versions contain female nudity, and the chief difference is that the unrated version has about twice as much, plus a short instance of male nudity.)