In the months leading up to Dinner For Schmucks, I thought that the comedy world had given me a gift. Paul Rudd, Steve Carell and Zach Galifianakis all in one movie? Where’s my seat? Walking out of the theater last night it felt like Hollywood had just pulled all of my fingernails off and squirted lime in my cuts. It was that bad. I’ve narrowed my dislike for Schmucks down to one variable: Steve Carell’s overgrown child/awkward character. After The 40-Year-Old Virgin and seven years of “The Office,” I just can’t take it anymore. I like Carell, I think he’s a funny guy. And he’s so damn good at being awkward. Carell has absolutely perfected the awkward character he plays. He’s perfected it to the point where I’m so uncomfortable watching him that it hurts. Schmucks was almost two hours of that. Paul Rudd hasn’t really evolved either through the years but that’s not the point. I love Paul Rudd. Though this role was the same as he played in Role Models. Rudd is a victim in Schmucks, even though it’s supposed to be Carell. What transpires is an hour and a half of Carell ruining Rudd’s life and making me uncomfortable with his awkwardness. Then there’s the dinner. With fucking Jeff Dunham. And by the time it’s all over you’ll wish that you’d spent your $10 to do something like wax yourself in places that don’t see the sun. Schmucks is passable, uncomfortable and so much better on paper than in execution.

In the months leading up to Dinner For Schmucks, I thought that the comedy world had given me a gift. Paul Rudd, Steve Carell and Zach Galifianakis all in one movie? Where’s my seat?

Walking out of the theater last night it felt like Hollywood had just pulled all of my fingernails off and squirted lime in my cuts. It was that bad.

I’ve narrowed my dislike for Schmucks down to one variable: Steve Carell’s overgrown child/awkward character. After The 40-Year-Old Virgin and seven years of “The Office,” I just can’t take it anymore. I like Carell, I think he’s a funny guy. And he’s so damn good at being awkward.

Carell has absolutely perfected the awkward character he plays. He’s perfected it to the point where I’m so uncomfortable watching him that it hurts. Schmucks was almost two hours of that.

Paul Rudd hasn’t really evolved either through the years but that’s not the point. I love Paul Rudd. Though this role was the same as he played in Role Models. Rudd is a victim in Schmucks, even though it’s supposed to be Carell. What transpires is an hour and a half of Carell ruining Rudd’s life and making me uncomfortable with his awkwardness.

Then there’s the dinner. With fucking Jeff Dunham. And by the time it’s all over you’ll wish that you’d spent your $10 to do something like wax yourself in places that don’t see the sun.

Schmucks is passable, uncomfortable and so much better on paper than in execution.

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