Dinner for Schmucks

The film collects a cast of performers who know how to be funny. The success of this movie, following a formula upheld by just about any recent hit comedy you can name, lies as much with supporting players and plot-derailing set pieces as with the central story and characters.

The guests at the dinner are a strange lot. To describe them would be to give away their jokes, and one of the pleasures of the movie is having each one appear.

Thanks to Rudd and Carell's dependable likeability and a tacked-on warm-and-fuzzy ending, Dinner For Schmucks is leagues ahead of its forebear in terms of mass appeal, but its laughs are more silly than scathing.

When Hollywood decides to remake French farce by Francis Veber, the result can be a champagne cocktail (La Cage Aux Folles spawning The Birdcage) or pâté de merde (Les Compères degenerating into Father's Day). Dinner for Schmucks, adapted from Veber's Le Dîner De Cons, falls somewhere in the middle.

With Paul Rudd as the would-be mocker and Steve Carell as the mockee, and all manner of new supporting characters and plot lines thrown in, and much less energy, delight, wit, humor and fun than the original was able to muster without any evident strain. There's the occasional bubble, I confess, but almost no delight.

Hardly a classic given the talents of Carell, Rudd and Roach at his best. It bungles utilising plenty of talent in a lightweight comedy effort that brings little fresh to the table.

Pathetically unfunny most of the time.

it is a funny movie that expresses emotion in friendship, and love and the passable joy of two friends etc. overall the movie it self is funny and moving 10/10

Volví a ver esta película después de muchos años recordando, que me reí mucho la primera vez. No obstante, hasta bien entrada la película, no paraba de pensar que era mucho más mala de lo que recordaba. La verdad es que hasta el tramos final, donde empieza la propia cena no empezó a ser divertida. Es una adaptación de una película de 1998 francesa, donde la original es mucho más realista, esta es más exagerada en todos los aspectos posibles, sin embargo, esta tiene la cena que es lo que te quedas con ganas de ver con la original y solo por eso esta película la supera por muy poco.

Funny but too exaggerated. The film goes too long, which is why some scenes are too exhausted and then a feeling of annoyance arises.

THE GOOD: Some hilarious scenes and Steve Carell's character are the only things I save from Dinner for Schmucks. THE BAD: If you are not into this humour (which is my case), you won't find this movie funny, you will find it dumb, long and awkard.

I was very, very disappointed with this movie. The actors in it are undeniably good, but good actors alone can't save how lame the writing in this movie is. Steve Carrell, an extremely hillarious actor, works hard despite being given one of the most unlikable characters I've seen in a comedy in a long time, while Paul Rudd is just going through the motions here. The only actor that comes out looking good in this movie is Zach Galifianakis as the villian, which is more solid work from him. This movie is just really not very funny at all, and everybody involved deserves better than what they are given.