Surprisingly well-thought out story, strong performances, and best of all, a crack-a-minute script. It's kinda like 30 Rock, or Arrested Development, or Earl... you can watch it over and over again just to be sure you catch all the lines! Who'd've thunk it -- one of the sharper comedies in a long time. Also surprisingly, and I don't think this counts as a spoiler, it doesn't move towards the trite, predictable, sappy ending you'd expect -- which is a pleasant surprise of its own. Sure it's upbeat, but it's not quite what I predicted the ending would be... like I said above -- it's well written! If I were to nitpick, it's that a couple relationship reconciliations are underplayed just enough that it's difficult to imagine how the character(s) came on-side... maybe one extra explanation of how/why Ronnie would be supportive of Augie -- but for the most part, the characters are broad enough that their coming together doesn't really hit you as unbelievable. Well done!
Review of Role Models
