Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Role Models
2008
**
Director: David Wain
Cast: Seann William Scott, Paul Rudd, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bobb'e J. Thompson, Elizabeth Banks, Jane Lynch, Ken Jeong

After a series of unfortunate events, friends/colleagues Danny and Wheeler are sentenced to 150 hours of community service. They must serve it in a Big Brother-like programme where Danny is paired up with a LARPing-obsessed teenager and Wheeler with a foul-mouthed 10-year-old. Despite the promising premise, David Wain's comedy is frustratingly formulaic. The grown men predictably turn out to be the biggest kids in the scenario. When Rudd, Scott and Lynch play the same characters they always do, it does not exactly increase the freshness factor. In keeping with the current trend, the film's humour is predictably crude, and the jokes are extremely hit and miss. Mostly miss.