Dinner for Schmucks Review Thread (Use Spoiler Tags)

[GreenScar]

Cast is stacking up nicely:

My favorite bearded comedian, Zach Galifianakis, has joined Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, and Lucy Punch in “Dinner for Schmucks.” According to Variety, he will play the assistant manager of a mattress store who is dating Carell’s ex-wife. Galifianakis’ starpower seems to rise by the day, as do his roles. More after the jump.

“Dinner with Schmucks” is a remake of the 1998 French film called “The Dinner Game,” written and directed by Francis Veberm. The original film focused on a weekly gathering held by a Paris publisher, where his friends were challenged bring the most worthless guest they can find to dinner. The new version will focus on an “extraordinarily stupid man who possesses the ability to ruin the life of anyone who spends more than a few minutes in his company.” Jay Roach, best known for the “Austin Powers” and “Meet the Parents” series, is set to direct.

Galifianakis is popping up in comedies everywhere lately. Since “The Hangover,” we’ve already seen him in “G-Force,” and he has roles in “Youth in Revolt” (a Michael Cera movie and you can check out its new trailer here) and will star opposite Robert Downey Jr. in “Due Date.” It’s amazing how long Hollywood has been missing out on Galifianakis. I really thought he was going to break out around the turn of the millennium. He was great in 2001’s “Out Cold” and had his own daily VH1 show, “Late World with Zach” in 2002. For some reason, it never happened.

In the years since, he’s cropped up in a bunch of Adult Swim programs, the occasional “Reno 911!” episode, and went dramatic in a small, but great role in “Into the Wild.” I really think he’s the next Steve Carell. Hopefully he’ll get a role that will show his versatility, like “The Office” has done for Carell.

[Hep]

Not too far from 1995's dark comedy The Last Supper. I would guess this one will be more comedy and less dark, but has some potential for social commentary.

[EricJ]

Rent The Dinner Game immediately.

The remake will probably be slacker-joked into genericity, but only the French can do French Farce.

[GreenScar]

Paramount Pictures has released the first movie trailer for the Steve Carell/Paul Rudd comedy Dinner for Schmucks. The film, helmed by Jay Roach (the director of the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents films), tells the story of a rising executive who “succeeds” in finding the perfect guest, an IRS employee, for his boss’s monthly event, a so-called “dinner for idiots,” which offers certain advantages to the exec who shows up with the biggest buffoon. Here si the official plot synopsis:

“Dinner for Schmucks” tells the story of Tim (Paul Rudd), a guy on the verge of having it all. The only thing standing between him and total career success is finding the perfect guest to bring to his boss’ annual Dinner for Extraordinary People, an event where the winner of the evening brings the most eccentric character as his guest. Enter Barry (Steve Carell), a guy with a passion for dressing mice up in tiny outfits to recreate great works of art. From Jay Roach, director of “Meet the Parents” and “Meet the Fockers” comes an unforgettable feast about two unlikely friends and one very memorable dinner.

The film is a remake of the french comedy film Le Diner de Cons. The movie co-stars Ron Livingston, Bruce Greenwood, Jemaine Clement, Stephanie Szostak, Jeff Dunham, Rick Overton, and Zach Galifianakis.

[Batman1980]

Heh, between Roach, Carell and Rudd, this film is can't miss for me, can't wait to see it!

[Freekman]

Just finished watching Le Diner de Cons (The Dinner Game) in my high school French class. If this remake is anything like it, I'm sure I'll enjoy it. I trust Steve Carell in making a good comedy.

[Nick4Blu_81]

I sure hope it is funnier than the trailer.
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/p...erforschmucks/

[The_Basterd]

I just got advanced screening tickets for this Thursday.
The second trailer made it look very funny. Much funnier than the 1st trailer. I hope this movie is good!

[tommyboy81]

I'm hoping this is good.

[The Rock]

Anybody else think this looks like the funniest movie of all time I'm for sure seeing this on day one so what's your guys opinions on the the trailer does it appeal to you guys?

[The Rock]

HIYO didn't see this thanks for deleting ma thread

[GreenScar]

Originally Posted by simmer55

HIYO didn't see this thanks for deleting ma thread

Wasn't deleted. Just merged.

[Zero_Cool]

I am sorry but i cant see anything funny in the trailer. I might see it because of paul rudd.

[Walts Ghost]

I want to see it for Paul Rudd, but the trailer isn't doing much for me...Hopefully the movies better than the trailer is making it out to be. Rudd & Carell are usually comedy gold, so this can't be a miss right?

[GreenScar]

Anyone see this today? Share.

[VenomBrock]

Caught it tonight. I love Steve Carell and this was his movie - his performance and the character he created (though not exactly a huge departure from someone like Michael Scott) was a riot and generated some big laughs. Great supporting cast too. Paul Rudd is solid enough as the fast quipping straight man, but this is really just his same character from stuff like 'I Love You, Man'. The movie overall suffered from some uneven pacing and a paint by numbers story (especially the romantic sub-plot of Paul Rudd's character). Still quite funny in many parts though - glad I saw it, but I can't say I'll ever really need to re-visit it.

[Cowboy300]

With an avatar like that, you know VenomBrock knows his stuff too.

[Lepidopterous]

Definitely the funniest movie of 2010. I couldn't stop laughing the entire time! Well worth a trip to the theaters. We've been joking about the gags all night.

I know the trailer makes it seem dull... did for me too. But the movie is absolutely hilarious. I'll probably be buying this on blu.

If you're on the edge... Go see this movie!

[Petra_Kalbrain]

A decent 2 hours of entertainment. I found myself laughing out loud 4 or 5 times. Most of the films humour is just barely giggle worthy. It was definitely nice to see Jermain from Flight Of The Conchords doing something a bit more edgy than his usual.

I gave it 3 stars as an average piece of comedic film. There is far more funny out there that I'd rather have watched on a repeat viewing though.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by Hep

Not too far from 1995's dark comedy The Last Supper. I would guess this one will be more comedy and less dark, but has some potential for social commentary.

It's nowhere near as good as The Last Supper was. And, definitely has no social commentary whatsoever. SALT has more social commentary than Dinner For Schmucks has.