DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS
3 out of 5 stars

IDK... as messed up as a dinner for idiots sounds, i would love to attend one just to experience the oddities and quarks of said people. food AND entertainment...that’s what i call a gooood night! :P

it’s sort of strange that paul rudd and steve carell would be paired up in one movie, but i didn’t think it was thaaat bad. paul rudd plays business-driven tim conrad, who works at a private equity fund, and wants to get a promotion up to that upstairs corner office, so he could finally afford all the nice things he ever wanted PLUS he wants to marry his dreamgirl julie. after proposing an awesome business proposal to his boss, mr. fender invites him to a special dinner at his house. a dinner for idiots. he asks tim to bring the biggest buffoon he could possibly find, and if his guest is the best, he can get that promotion. there’s just one problem... where to find such a rare person? well... he ends up running over this guy named barry (carell), who got hit because he was leaning over to pick up a dead mouse. turns out barry’s hobby is mouse taxidermy, and he creates these elaborate and creative dioramas featuring his furry little friends. (i tell ya, the dioramas alone MAKE this movie) so, naturally, tim invites barry to the dinner, but not before barry causes some disruption in tim’s “perfect” life first... :P

OMG the actual dinner is quite amazingly funny esp. when the animal spirit guide lady starts to wig out when they’re served lobster. barry’s tower of dreams is pretty amazing too, but the blind fencing dude and zack galifianakis as barry’s rival therman made me LOL real hard! (honestly, the character therman deserves his own movie and so does animal spirit guide lady!) like i said, the mice dioramas are actually really well done and fit into the story nicely esp. the ending. LOL, lest not forget kieran vollard the crazy british artist who is a little bit too involved with his animalistic side! i thought it could have been funnier esp. with the swiss couple and possibly a funnier lead. not that i have anything against paul rudd- but was mike myers not available? i just expect really funny shit from the director who made austin powers come to life, that’s all... :P