Sep 16 2008 Red-Band 'Role Models' Trailer Pours Sugar on My D

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Here's the red-band, cuss-filled trailer to Role Models, the comedy written, directed, and starring various The State people you're probably better off liking. It earns bonus points for including a child drawing a crude portrayal of Beyonce pouring sugar on his dick, but loses many more for being so overtly uplifting and setting much of the action to the tune of a Matchbox Twenty song. Who knew those guys were still making their idea of music? Regardless, in the end, this still seems alright, but just barely. You won me over again, Paul Rudd.

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Aug 6 2008 Help Me Decide if This 'Role Models' Trailer is Good or Not

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OK, a high concept comedy where a couple semi-detestable guys reform themselves when they're forced to volunteer at a Big Brothers program should be awful, right? That's what I thought too, but here's the rub: it's written by, directed by, and starring various The State/Wet Hot American Summer guys, so it should be pretty decent, right? But it also stars Stiffler, who I'm at best ambivalent towards, and has a joke about how crazy the cup size names are at Starbucks. But then again, the Reindeer Games joke is pretty good, as is Paul Rudd. But man, this overly-precocious kid is going to get old real quick (both in the movie and real life, when he'll probably turn to drugs). So I don't know what to think. Anyone?

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