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Steve Carell, whose gift for playing dumb yet remaining sympathetic is unparalleled, and the astoundingly likeable Paul Rudd make an excellent comedy team in Dinner for Schmucks. Tim (Rudd, I Love You, Man) gets invited to take part in a game his boss plays every year: each of his executives has to bring a perfect idiot to dinner; the biggest loser wins an award and the executive who brought him gets a promotion. Tim's girlfriend thinks the idea is appalling, and Tim reluctantly agrees--until he literally runs into Barry (Carell), an obtuse IRS agent who makes dioramas with stuffed dead mice. Barry is so perfect for the game that Tim can't resist inviting him to dinner--but by inviting Barry into his life, Tim loses control of everything he wants as Barry's bumbling attempts to help go hopelessly awry. Dinner for Schmucks has its share of broad slapstick, but what may surprise some viewers is the mix of verbal wit and elegant visual jokes (some of Barry's dioramas are both funny and truly beautiful). The movie's farcical formula is familiar and threadbare, but Rudd and Carell give it genuine heart as well as humor and the supporting performances from Jemaine Clement (Eagle vs. Shark), Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover), and Kristin Schaal (Flight of the Conchords) are all deliriously funny. A loose but honourable remake of the French comedy The Dinner Game. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com
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Tim (Paul Rudd) is a rising executive whose boss invites him to take part in an unsual game. Every month, a dinner party is staged, and a prize is handed out to whoever can find the most idiotic guest to come with them. Tim is certain he's onto a winner when he meets dim-witted Barry (Steve Carell) and decides to invite him.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This film had me laughing out loud. Certain scenes were just genius! It is a fine example of taking an idea, pushing it to extremes and then taking even further!
The story is simple. Man wants promotion. Man gets chance of promotion and is invited to a special dinner with the boss where he has to impress - the catch is, that at this dinner you have to bring along an 'idiot' as entertainment.
Enter stage left Steve Carell, the walking disaster, who turns our Man's life (and everything else) upside down. Sounds rubbish, but it's totally hysterical.
The acting was by everyone was spot-on, with the supporting cast of nut-jobs putting in as great a performance and Steve Carell (who is of course excellent too) and the film's finalé was just hysterical.
The easily earns the title of "The Best Comedy I've Seen In A While" and I would happily watch it again. Laugh? I quite literally wet myself - but it's OK, it was with tears of laughter.
The story is simple. Man wants promotion. Man gets chance of promotion and is invited to a special dinner with the boss where he has to impress - the catch is, that at this dinner you have to bring along an 'idiot' as entertainment.
Enter stage left Steve Carell, the walking disaster, who turns our Man's life (and everything else) upside down. Sounds rubbish, but it's totally hysterical.
The acting was by everyone was spot-on, with the supporting cast of nut-jobs putting in as great a performance and Steve Carell (who is of course excellent too) and the film's finalé was just hysterical.
The easily earns the title of "The Best Comedy I've Seen In A While" and I would happily watch it again. Laugh? I quite literally wet myself - but it's OK, it was with tears of laughter.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Jay Roach has done some quite enjoyable films, so, even though I really like the French original, I thought he would do a good job of producing an Americanized version of the Dinner. But no. The 'idiot' in the original is full of charm, an inadvertent wrecker, like Mr Bean. Steve Carell's 'schmuck', however, is charmless.
The pleasure in the French version is watching the uptight executive's life unravel as his calculating plans go awry. In this film the executive (Paul Rudd) has been scripted to be sympathetic so the function of the 'idiot' as an anti-bourgeois provocateur is lost. What is left is a dog's dinner.
The pleasure in the French version is watching the uptight executive's life unravel as his calculating plans go awry. In this film the executive (Paul Rudd) has been scripted to be sympathetic so the function of the 'idiot' as an anti-bourgeois provocateur is lost. What is left is a dog's dinner.
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steve and paul have done it again!.. The third film they have worked together in, They play well off each other!!
Published 4 months ago by Kevin Mcgarry
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A brilliant idea for a film...don't know why this film wasn't bigger than it has been...it's so cringeworthy but so funny...brilliant actors that just aren't right in the head!!!!!
Published 5 months ago by Vio
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I have Just watched Dinner for Schmucks and thought it was an all right film myself I gave it a 6 out of 10.
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