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33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe fun of Role Models is that it's a high-concept movie executed with speed and finesse and the kind of brusquely tossed-off obscene banter that can get you laughing before you know what hit you.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe kind of comedy where funny people say funny things in funny situations, not the kind of comedy that whacks you with manic shocks to force an audible Pavlovian response.
- 75Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaIt's pretty formulaic stuff, and earns its R rating with profanity and unapologetically gratuitous female nudity, but somehow has a winning knuckleheaded charm.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterRudd and Scott hail from different universes of movie comedy, but manage together here just fine, particularly since each takes a different path.
- 70VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyLaden with more than enough profane humor to warrant its R rating, this is nonetheless a formulaic crowd-pleaser.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceWain, Marino, and Rudd pull it off because theirs is a funnier, brainier, bawdier brand of feel-good.
- 67Austin ChronicleAustin ChronicleMisanthropy in the movies has a new face. And, surprising to say, it's a handsome one. A matinee-idol face, in fact. Some might even go so far as to call it "dreamy." It's the face of Paul Rudd.
- 63Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsRole Models wouldn't be anything without Mintz-Plasse, whose character occasions what may be the cinema's first really funny Marvin Hamlisch joke, and whose camera presence is at once unfailingly modest and distinctive.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliIt's disposable entertainment at its most extreme.
- 20New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierWhere on the evolutionary scale of wacky-dudes-learn-to-grow-up movies does Role Models fall? Certainly less evolved than "Meatballs," but head and hairy knuckles above "Daddy Day Care" or "The Benchwarmers."