'Role Models' - High-Def Digest Review

[Attebery]

Tom has reviewed ’Role Models.’ He says it wasn't for him (Editor's Note - I turned this one off after 15 LONG minutes). This Blu-ray offers video and audio that's a step up from DVD, but nothing incredible. Supplements are fairly expansive. Rent this one first.

Full review here:
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/2041/rolemodels.html

[utl768]

i disagree 100%, sean william scott and that little black kid (i dont know his name) had me laughing my ass of everytime they opened there mouth this entire film

[Moviemaniack1993]

I agree completely with this review. I did not see what all the fuss was about with this movie. It was not that funny. Jane Lynch had me laughing in some lines, but overall, I would much rather watch 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I Love You Man, etc. Role Models just wasn't funny to me and I am glad I watched it before buying it. I would have been very disappointed.

[TLSonata]

Yeah, I actually thought this was one of the top comedies of last year. I'm a huge fan of David Wain and crew (The only VHS tapes left in my collection are old recordings of the State---still waiting for that dvd) and felt that yes, it did have a formulaic concept , but it still had a unique enough voice to stand out from the other "bro-mance" (sigh) movies that are coming out by the truck load. There are copies of the original script floating around out there and if you compare it to the movie we have today, Wain and Rudd pulled an all out miracle.

That said, the special features alone make the BD worth buying. I'm excited for David Wain's success with this film and can't wait to see what he'll be able to do with an even bigger budget and project all his own.

Stella movie WHAT

[cheez avenger]

Hmmmm, is it better than Sex Drive?


Sex Drive was pretty good.

[cooltobeyou]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

Hmmmm, is it better than Sex Drive?


Sex Drive was pretty good.

I found Sex Drive to be a pretty "generic" movie, but to be honest, it probably had about the same "LOL Moment" ratio as "Role Models" has. I'd still put Role Models a step above it though, just because its a better made movie and the punch lines to the jokes are just delivered way better.

As far as the Highdef Digest review goes, I find it odd that I had the exact opposite reaction to this film. I thought the opening scenes were some of the funniest moments of this film. I laughed my ass off at all the energy drink shenanigans...and then I found that the laugh out loud moments slowly tapered off throughout the film so it would have that "feel good..."see the movie isn't THAT dirty"" vibe to it.

[CriticalMass]

Each to their own really... especially where comedy movies are concerned.
Personally, I thought Role Models was the funniest movie I had seen since 40-Year-Old Virgin!

Jane Lynch was one of the highlights for me, with her over-the-top hardnosed attitude and perverse mind. And McLovin was also a highlight... pretty much all the way through.

What I liked most about the film, though, is all the little sexual inuendos that come up in the dialogue...
"I shall approach him from the rear!"
"I would love to see you penetrate me again!"
and my personal favourite:
"Now, exit my burger-hole boy!"

Classic!

[BostonMA]

my opinion is about the exact opposite of this review as well, but tom landy did come through for me in mentioning the huge fanbase at the beginning. at first i was like WHHHHAAAATTTT???? A 2/5!!!!?????? then i saw his opening statement.

for me, i thought this was no doubt the funniest movie since superbad and superbad is one of the funniest movies of all time IMO up with 40 year old, wedding crashers, and harold and kumar go to white castle. maybe i love this because i love paul rudd, idk, i thought the supporting characters were comically brilliant too. of course jane lynch was funny and i'll add to the sexual innuendos mentioned above "I'm not hear to service you, i'm hear to service these young boys".

as for the other supporting characters, i had no idea who A.D. Miles was, who played the red headed martin gary but he made me laugh my ass off at everything he said, and his one particular "rewind" scene was one of his best, i wish they kept that in. i didnt know that ken jeong had all that comedy in him to play the king, with all those hints that he's gay jokes and near the end where christopher mint plasse's character's mom says hi augie and he goes hi mom, only to be cut off my ken jeong yelling "YOU SHUT UP WHORE!". very funny, very funny. also joe lo truglio was very funny as the bearded lair player "RUB A DUB DUB". and of course, the 2 leading stars and 2 supporting stars were hilarious.

but back to the point, i loved this and didnt realize the vast differences in opinions this film has.

[SilentNight]

I fall in the totally disagree with the review camp as well. I thought this was one hilarious movie. Not quite as funny as the directors earlier movies, Ten and Wet, Hot, American Summer but still very funny.

This review suprised me almost as much as the totally inacurate review for King Kong a month or so ago. Oh well, to each his own.

[Pimboli]

I thought this was a pretty funny movie granted it leaned a bit to much too schmaltzy towards the end but Williams and the little black guy had me in stitches as did Jane Lynch who must have been ad-libbing as I doubt you can actually sit down and type the rambling rubbish she was talking plus the her 'what does this remind you of' hotdog bit was hysterical.

Probably could have had a bit shaved off the running time.

[ao7996]

I netflixed this movie a couple weeks ago and absolutely loved it. I found myself laughing out loud more often than not and really enjoyed the film. The little kid completely steals any scene he's in.

I thought the AQ and PQ reviews were pretty spot on, I would have rated them both at a 4 before reading, but I'm just not as technically sound in my own " does it look/sound good" approach.

I was able to order this through the CH BOGO, and can't wait to watch it again. If you're a fan of any of the other Apatow-esqe films, give this a chance (plus, there are a ridiculous amount of funny deleted scenes too)

[loregnum]

Wow. A 2/5 rating?

This movie was great and the funniest movie I have seen since American Pie 2. It was so good I watched it back to back nights and laughed almost as much the 2nd time. Just thinking about some of the lines/scenes in the movie right now makes me chuckle.

To each their own and I respect that people have different tastes. All this does though is basically say to me the reviewer is someone I can't put much value in when reviewing comedies and probably all movies because if a person can be this far off from my view then clearly I can't put much value in their feedback for what I may like since they are a lot different than me.

Thankfully I'm not big into movie content reviews (especially here at HD Digest) anyway so no big loss. I disagree with 75% of the movie scores here.

[bookcase]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

Hmmmm, is it better than Sex Drive?


Sex Drive was pretty good.

I turned Sex Drive off 20 minutes in, but I loved Role Models.

[nmcmahan52]

this movie was hilarious, definitely my kind of humor, paul rudd should be in some type of hall of fame

[HuskerGuy]

Originally Posted by nmcmahan52

this movie was hilarious, definitely my kind of humor, paul rudd should be in some type of hall of fame

Yeah, I'm another one that disagrees with the 2/5. I thought it was hilarious, although not quite as funny as Sex Drive.

Also, I'm in agreement on Ruud. His latest SNL appearance was pretty good.