Role Models (2008, USA)

I don’t have much of interest to say about Role Models except that it’s fucking hilarious. While much more conventional in story and structure than David Wain’s Wet Hot American Summer, Role Models still brings epic levels of profanity, child-associated wrongness, and awesome Paul Rudd. Rudd and Seann William Scott are actually a terrific duo – Scott looks like he understands only half of what’s coming out of Rudd’s mouth at any particular point in time, but he brings a goofy sense of boyishness that Rudd is too self-aware to generate. Throw in Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bobb’e J. Thompson, and a terrific supporting cast that includes the always-amazing Jane Lynch and Ken Leung (I really like what Judd Apatow has done for Leung’s career), as well as an amazing role-playing fantasy-world subplot, and Role Models is guaranteed to become a repeat watch, even if it never quite reaches WHAM levels.