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Dinner For Schmucks, Starring Steve Carell & Paul Rudd–MOVIE REVIEW

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MOVIE REVIEW.

Guess who the schmuck is? Me and anyone else who was fooled into hoping that a movie by such comedic powerhouses as Steve Carell and Paul Rudd would be worth the $14 ticket price. Or worth our time.

I wanted to leave the movie 10 minutes into it when I had not even laughed once. Then, Carell made his scene entry into the movie and a smile came across my face. “Carell will make it all better” I thought. Not only did Carell not make the movie any better, he made it agonizingly more painful.

Before you accuse me of not having a sense of humor, know that I have loved the two-previous Rudd and Carell joint ventures: The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Dinner for Schmucks is nothing like either of those two movies but instead more like a bad Saturday Night Live skit that goes on five minutes too long.

Schmucks uses plenty of cheap, tired, unoriginal tricks throughout to either grab laughs or to advance the plot but fails miserably at both. Best you can hope for are a few scattered laughs, amidst a lot of creepiness, meanness and awfulness. Save your money. Save your time. But, if it’s comedy you’re in the mood for, go see the aptly-named The Other Guys—as those other guys, Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, brought it! That comedy left both my jaw and stomach in pain from laughing so hard throughout the movie. You can see the full The Other Guys review here.

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Steve Carell And Chili’s Make Parody of LeBron James’ The Decision [Video]

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VIDEO CLIP OF THE DAY.

  Looks like everyone is making a parody of LeBron James’ “The Decision,”the hour-long live ESPN press conference/announcement LeBron scheduled to tell the world of his decision to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat.
John Mayer’s video attempt poking fun of LeBron was not funny. Steve Carell and Paul Rudd, on the other hand, did a fantastic job making a parody of the same for this year’s ESPY Awards. 

What made Carell and Rudd’s version even funnier, is that the restaurant chain, Chili’s, joined in for the fun and reacted to the fake slighting it received by Carell. 


Chili’s posted a disgruntled open letter on Chili’s Facebook page, very much like the open letter that Dan Gilbert, the Cavalier’s majority owner, posted on the Cavalier’s site in response to “The Decision.” The letter posted by Gilbert cost his team a $100,000 fine by the NBA. Chili’s on the other hand is receiving lots of publicity for theirs. 

Chili’s President, Wyman T. Roberts writes in his letter: “Steve Carell’s shameful display of selfishness and betrayal has shifted our ‘motivation’ to previously unknown and previously never experienced levels,” Roberts continued. “His heartless and callous actions will only fuel our constant search for freshness and flavor.  This shocking act of disloyalty from our homegrown ‘funny man’ sends the exact opposite flavor of what we would want our children to taste. And ‘where’ we would want them to go out and eat.”

Good stuff. Actually, great stuff. Wonder if anyone else will try to top Carell and Chili’s.

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