A few weeks ago I won tickets to the Ottawa advanced-screening of this film over Twitter, but unfortunately the screening was last week while I was out of the country. While I didn't get to see it for free, I still was eager to see it.In this remake of the 1998 french film Le dîner de cons, Paul Rudd stars as Tim, an executive whose raise depends on him bringing a Schmuck to his boss's monthly "dinner for idiots". Tim runs into, literally runs into him with his car, Barry (Steve Carell) an IRS employee who creates miniatures with dead mice. This spirals into a classic farce, with the usual gags that go along with that.
While hardly a perfect comedy, it is very funny. The actors - Rudd, Carell, Galifianakis, Clement - carry the film. It proves that if you put enough funny actors in a movie, you have a chance to end up with a funny movie. The movie is terribly predictable, but charming. The trailer for the film presents a good image of the film - if you laughed during the trailer, you'll probably laugh during the movie.
On a side note, I was quite shocked and pleased to notice that Chris O'Dowd was one of the "Schmucks." Not only is O'Dowd one of the actors in the humorous BritCom The IT Crowd, but his last name is the English variation on mine, which I think is cool.
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