'Dinner for Schmucks'

'Dinner for Schmucks' is nonstop laughs. Unfortunately, most of the laughs within the movie are at the expense of these misunderstood characters. You can't help but smirk and chuckle, but everytime you do you feel like a bully in high school. This film is like a slow moving train wreck; you don't want to look, but you just can't help yourself. There are lots of films out there that are like this, most of them starring Ben Stiller. 'Schmucks' is a film where the main character is a good enough guy, but for some reason the director thought it would be funny to crap on him for an hour and a half. Films like 'There's Something About Mary', 'You, Me, and Dupree', 'Meet the Parents', 'Along Came Polly', and 'American Pie' all come to mind when I think about what Paul Rudd goes through in this movie. This film is actually a foreign remake from 1998 called 'The Dinner Game'. Jay Roach (director of the 'Austin Powers' franchise and 'Meet the Parents' movies) did an uncanny job in casting for this picture. I always say that Paul Rudd is better used as a supporting character, that he's not able to carry a story on his own. I still feel that way, but having a huge and supremely talented core of actors backing him up lifted his talents to new heights. For not being a fan of these "ruin the nice guy's life" movies, I still thought the performances by Rudd, Galifianakis, Carell, Clement, and Livingston was worth seeing Paul Rudd get pooped on by every big name in the business right now. End Result is a 3 out of 5.