{"id":1416,"date":"2008-12-23T18:50:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T22:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2008-12-23T18:20:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T22:20:56","slug":"role-models-2008-david-wain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1416","title":{"rendered":"Role Models (2008, David Wain)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Same director, writers, cast & composer (Craig Wedren!) as Wet Hot American Summer<\/a><\/em> – but also the same as The Ten<\/a><\/em> – so this could’ve turned out a beloved favorite comedy, or something worse than My Name Is Bruce<\/a><\/em>. Instead it took the middle road, sort of a Richard Linklater’s Bad News Bears<\/em> sort of thing – a nice, but somewhat generic and forgettable comedy about troubled adults trying to mentor troubled kids.<\/p>\n

Two kinda-famous comedy actors play a total slacker and a dude with anger issues who work as energy drink reps. After they fuck that up, their community service is to be big-brother types to two boys, boobies-obsessed foul-mouthed young black kid and live-action-role-playing bully-magnet older white kid. Lessons are learned, lots of State alums show up, angry dude gets his girlfriend back, roll credits.<\/p>\n

A decent way to pass the time. Made me laugh. Oh man I just found out David Wain has his own TV series. Why’s no one tell me anything?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Same director, writers, cast & composer (Craig Wedren!) as Wet Hot American Summer – but also the same as The Ten – so this could’ve turned out a beloved favorite comedy, or something worse than My Name Is Bruce. Instead it took the middle road, sort of a Richard Linklater’s Bad News Bears sort of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[759],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-the-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}