Nicole Randall-Johnson only has a couple of brief scenes, but the minute you see her interact with Ronnie, you understand both their relationship and Ronnie's capability to turn off the language and be a good kid. It's impressive how subtly these kids are fleshed out just through their on-screen parents. (Live-Action Interactive Role-Playing Explorers), and Ronnie Shields (Bobb'e J. Their subjects: Augie Farks (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), a shy, awkward lover of L.A.I.R.E. After having a particularly bad day ending in breakups and arrests, he and Wheeler find themselves as mentors in a Big-Brother-style program logging 150 hours of community service in order to avoid 30 days in jail. Luckily, as far as I'm concerned, there's something special in this crowd-pleasing, good-natured and above all, profanely goofy comedy that merits a look beyond just how many times I laughed at it.ĭanny (Paul Rudd) is a brooding, unhappy dick-in-a-rut who constantly worries about his job (hawking the energy drink Minotaur to middle school kids as an alternative to drugs), his association with his party-loving co-worker Wheeler (Seann William Scott), and his straining relationship with his weary lawyer girlfriend Beth (Elizabeth Banks). Yet humor is subjective, and beyond that it's hard to stretch "it's hilarious!" into several paragraphs. It's my favorite pure comedy of the year, and while I've seen it more times than I'd expect anyone to watch it, it still amuses me. It's hard to know what to say when reviewing a comedy.
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