Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott star in ‘Role Models’ as Danny and Wheeler, two salesmen who trash a company truck on an energy drink-fuelled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: Jail, or spend 150 hours with a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn’t look half bad. Once the center’s ex-con director (Jane Lynch) gives them an ultimatum, Danny and Wheeler are forced to tailor their brand of immature wisdom to their charges, Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and Ronnie (Bobb’e J. Thompson). And if they can just make it through probation without getting thrown in jail, the world’s worst role models will prove that, sometimes, it takes a village idiot to raise a child.
There’s nothing real surprising about the plot of Role Models. Two men are taught important life lessons when forced to think about someone besides themselves. It’s not groundbreaking material we’re dealing with here. What it is though, is a talented cast hitting all the right marks, working off a script with some great one-liners mixed with enough touching moments to add a real emotional punch to the story.

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