Flat-out hilarious.  It’s everything that I Love You, Man wanted and tried to be.  A bro-comedy with heart and rauchy laughs.  You identify with these characters.  You like these characters.  Afte the movie’s over, you wish you could hang out with them.  That’s the sign of a great movie:  When it’s over you wonder how long it’ll be til the sequel comes out.

Paul Rudd is awesome here as a 35-year old, not married, mid-life crisis type of guy who is adrift in what to do with his life.  Should he get married?  Will that ‘fix’ his life?  Unlike in ILYMan, his character here is bitter, sarcastic and jaded AKA funny.  His best friend Seann William Scott (one of his best performances) is happy with his drifting life content with scoring with chicks, partying and wearing a minotaur suit for the energy drink company they both work for.  Add in having to ‘mentor’ two young kids from a Big Brothers type place, and it changes their lives.  The kids are Christopher Mintz-Plasse who played McLovin from Superbad (he’s better here as a role-playing nerd) and a new kid named Bobb’e Thompson who is freakin’ funny as a lil’ foul-mouthed kid.

Elizabeth Banks (who I like, but is in every movie you’ve seen in the last 5 years) is good as the gf of Rudd and their company lawyer to boot.

Special props to:

Jane Lynch (from Ricky Bobby, 40 year-old Virgin) steals the show as the ex-boozer, drug addict slut who supposely as changed her life around and now runs the Big Brother-like program they are forced to attend.

4**** astericks out of *****5 astericks

Well done, gentlemen…well done.