Dinner For Schmucks: DVD Review
Dinner for Schmucks
Released by Universal
Rating: M
Taken from the original French film Le Diner De Cons (The Dinner Game) and
Americanised, Dinner for Schmucks stars Paul Rudd as Tim, a mid level executive
who's desperate to break through to the upper levels of the board room.
One day, he manages a break through by impressing his
boss (Greenwood) over how to net a potential new client Mueller (David Walliams)
and is invited into the upper echelons of the board room.
However, on arrival there, he's told of a monthly dinner hosted by
his boss which he's duly invited to. But the crux of the dinner is that each of
them has to bring an idiot along as a dinner date for their collective amusement
- and it gets worse for Tim as he realises the boss picks a winning idiot to
give a prize to.
That's where Steve Carell comes
in - his IRS worker Barry is run over by Tim. And as Tim talks to Barry, he
realises this taxidermist could be his in to win the Dinner. You see, Barry
makes diorama and famous scenes with dead mice (eg the Mousea Lisa) and is
clearly some kind of idiot in Tim's eyes.
I have
mixed feelings about this film (and no I've not seen the original French farce)-
Paul Rudd puts in yet another good and likeable act - and Steve Carell is once
again, another version of Steve Carell but starts to irritate a little as the
film continues. However, it's nice they've made him a loser with a back story
that's revealed near the end rather than just a goof.
Dinner For Schmucks can be best described as a meal which promises so
much - in the end it resembles a buffet which initally has you salivating but
ultimately leaves you wanting.
Rating: 6/10
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