Dinner for Schmucks (2010)

Loved it! Very funny! Finally a comedy that is actually funny! Really rare these days!

I'm tired. I've had a long week at work, I want to "chill out", get hungry and watch something stupid. So I read the synopsis for Dinner For Schmucks and it sounds promising. Literally nothing interesting happened until Steve Carrell showed up. Some predictable gags and a template setup for the inevitable hilarity that will ensue. Tim wants promotion, his bosses are elitist douche bags, he wants to fit in and be successful, he's willing to do just about anything, even if he has to be cruel. His girlfriend works with an intimate weirdo, he has a stalker from the past, he has to impress ridiculously rich European people to he his evil promotion and he even learns a valuable lesson in the end. Hey, they're not spoilers, that's a stock standard plot. If the plot surprises you, id say you're very sheltered. NOTHING interesting happened while ever Steve Carrell isn't around. Carrell's given his script, told to do what he does best and he shows his true comic worth as creator of unbelievably mentally challenged characters. Every positive credit that can be given to this flick is purely due to the performance of Steve Carrell. If I can't enjoy a supposed comedy flick AT ALL when I'm high, there's something wrong.Steve Carrell saves this one

SPOILERS Dinner for Schmucks is one of the best comedies I've seen in recent years, possibly since Austin Powers. It's funny without getting as crude and disgusting as other recent funny comedies like Borat, Team America, Harold & Kumar, and Super Bad. The characters are likable with their funny flaws, and Steve Carell performs his role better than anything I've seen from Adam Sandler, Will Farrell or any of the other current lead comics. Carell plays a not so bright, nerdy amateur taxidermist who makes dioramas featuring stuffed mice. But you like him because he's very talented at his hobby. Paul Rudd befriends him with an ulterior motive, to invite him to the title dinner to impress his boss - but humiliating him in the process. But even before the dinner, Carell, trying to helpful, creates a series of misunderstandings that mess up Rudd's relationships. This makes up the bulk of the movie and is very funny, if typical comedic misunderstandings, well staged with good comic timing. SPOILER: But the dinner finally comes and that's the outstanding part, as we see the schmucks invited really are better people than the snobs who invited them, just ordinary people with some extraordinary talents -- but intensely funny. This is one to watch over again every couple years.

first of all I can't believe how low the rating is for this movie and i'm not even a fan of Steve really, I love 40 year old virgin but not much else with him starring in it. I was shocked at how funny this movie was and i saw it when it first came out.Everybody in it was great and the jokes were hilarious. I can understand if its not your type of movie but i'm seeing 1 and 2 stars reviews and it deserves way better than that. At Least give it a try if you're on the fence about it. Great movie!It can be a lil raunchy but i like that kind of comedy.