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By Blake Rong
Posted: 11/5/08, 5:45 AM EST Section: Feature
University Union is previewing the comedy "Role Models" at 8 tonight in Gifford Auditorium, inside Huntington Beard Crouse Hall. Tickets are free and available at the Schine Box Office. The movie will be released in theaters nationwide Nov. 7.
Paul Rudd ("The 40-Year Old Virgin," "Anchorman") and Sean William Scott ("American Pie" series) play a pair of energy drink-promoting slackers who find themselves faced with the decision of going to jail or doing community service. The two choose to volunteer at a Boys and Girls Club-type community service program as mentors to young boys.
Wacky hi-jinks ensue as the two men deal with hyperactive, disrespectful boys played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse ("Superbad") and Bobb'e J. Thompson ("The Tracy Morgan Show"). The movie is directed by David Wain, (Comedy Central's short-lived show "Stella") and co-written by Wain and Rudd.
Reviews from the advance screenings of the movie have mostly been positive. Fans of recent popular films such as "Superbad," "Knocked Up" and "The 40-Year Old Virgin" will find much to enjoy here, as this features cast members from all three movies and the same off-color humor that has made them so successful.
These oft-quoted movies have been popular with college students, which is exactly why UU was able to obtain this movie two days in advance.
Major companies such as Universal and Warner Brothers approached the student-run organization for screenings on the Syracuse University campus.
"They want to get the movie out and create buzz about it, in the hopes that students will tell their friends about it," said Emily Alber Chase, junior political philosophy major and director of Cinema for UU.
However, many students have heard of neither the movie nor the screening, owing to a lack of promotion by both the movie studios as well as UU in the days before the event.
"I've never heard of it," said Brandon Richardson, a junior accounting major who had seen one commercial for the movie and was familiar with its premise but was unaware that UU was bringing it to campus.
"If I didn't have anything to do, I would," he said.
This is UU's second advance screening; the first was "Body of Lies," in October.
The organization is planning another screening of an unreleased movie Nov. 19.
They will be showing "Four Christmases," starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, one week before it comes out nationally Nov. 26.
bzrong@syr.edu
Paul Rudd ("The 40-Year Old Virgin," "Anchorman") and Sean William Scott ("American Pie" series) play a pair of energy drink-promoting slackers who find themselves faced with the decision of going to jail or doing community service. The two choose to volunteer at a Boys and Girls Club-type community service program as mentors to young boys.
Wacky hi-jinks ensue as the two men deal with hyperactive, disrespectful boys played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse ("Superbad") and Bobb'e J. Thompson ("The Tracy Morgan Show"). The movie is directed by David Wain, (Comedy Central's short-lived show "Stella") and co-written by Wain and Rudd.
Reviews from the advance screenings of the movie have mostly been positive. Fans of recent popular films such as "Superbad," "Knocked Up" and "The 40-Year Old Virgin" will find much to enjoy here, as this features cast members from all three movies and the same off-color humor that has made them so successful.
These oft-quoted movies have been popular with college students, which is exactly why UU was able to obtain this movie two days in advance.
Major companies such as Universal and Warner Brothers approached the student-run organization for screenings on the Syracuse University campus.
"They want to get the movie out and create buzz about it, in the hopes that students will tell their friends about it," said Emily Alber Chase, junior political philosophy major and director of Cinema for UU.
However, many students have heard of neither the movie nor the screening, owing to a lack of promotion by both the movie studios as well as UU in the days before the event.
"I've never heard of it," said Brandon Richardson, a junior accounting major who had seen one commercial for the movie and was familiar with its premise but was unaware that UU was bringing it to campus.
"If I didn't have anything to do, I would," he said.
This is UU's second advance screening; the first was "Body of Lies," in October.
The organization is planning another screening of an unreleased movie Nov. 19.
They will be showing "Four Christmases," starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, one week before it comes out nationally Nov. 26.
bzrong@syr.edu
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Tommy
posted 11/12/08 @ 2:20 PM EST
If you think Role Models is funny, check out David Wain's webseries Wainy Days! It's even better.
http://www.mydamnchannel.com/Wainy_Days/Season_3/26ShellyII_883. (Continued…)
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