Dinner For Schmucks: A Quick Review

I am incredibly perplexed as to how this film made it's way to the big screen. The script is alarmingly shallow and no amount of star power could bring it out of the sewage depths it has attained. I like Paul Rudd and I think Steve Carell is hilarious, but Dinner For Schmucks was turned off halfway through so I could do something more interesting and finish it later. It was like self induced torture.

Most people should know the plot by now, Paul Rudd has been promoted and the first order of business is to find an idiot to bring to a corporate dinner so they can be made fun of by executives. I am almost positive that this happens somewhere in America, probably at large banking firms where they laugh at poor people while burning copious amounts of my money. Paul Rudd is kind of a moral guy and doesn't want to make fun of innocent people but then he runs into Steve Carell, with his car. Steve Carell is the perfect idiot for the job and Rudd has no choice but to invite him along.

 The movie is filled with painfully awkward, unfunny scenes that you just pray will end. Steve Carell is the only shining star and may actually cause some genuine laughs, same goes for Jemaine Clement, but otherwise I would avoid this dinner at all costs. Even if it's free. Especially if it's free.

-Christopher O'Connell