Review: Dinner for Schmucks

Over-the-top. Hilarious Moments. Contrived story. Inconsistent. Very funny.

While this movie had some great moments and at times it was really funny, over all it left me feeling very strange about it. It made 'Meet the Parents' seem realistic in that it was so over the top, so far from any sort of reality, but often acted like it was reality, that it left me with mixed feelings. They create all these huge problems and then wrap it up in the end with voice over, which I was not a fan of.

Steve Carell is very funny, but his character was inconsistent for me. I didn't understand him. He was crazy, and then not. Logical and then totally illogical. He basically ruins peoples lives in the movie and no one is upset with him, which made no sense to me.

Paul Rudd gave a moderately bland performance for me.

Zach Galifianakis was the highlight of the movie for me. He was awesome.

This film has the potential to be a sort of cult classic. It has some great lines and seriously memorable moments. But because the story is so slapstick, but many characters are played so dramatically, it doesn't quite come together. The Steve Carell character basically ruins the life of Paul Rudds character, and then the movie ends. It didn't really make sense to me.

That said, I do still laugh when I think about parts of it.