Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

The fun of Role Models is that it's a high-concept movie executed with speed and finesse and the kind of brusquely tossed-off obscene banter that can get you laughing before you know what hit you.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

The kind of comedy where funny people say funny things in funny situations, not the kind of comedy that whacks you with manic shocks to force an audible Pavlovian response.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea

It's pretty formulaic stuff, and earns its R rating with profanity and unapologetically gratuitous female nudity, but somehow has a winning knuckleheaded charm.

The Hollywood Reporter

Rudd and Scott hail from different universes of movie comedy, but manage together here just fine, particularly since each takes a different path.

Variety by Dennis Harvey

Laden with more than enough profane humor to warrant its R rating, this is nonetheless a formulaic crowd-pleaser.

Village Voice

Wain, Marino, and Rudd pull it off because theirs is a funnier, brainier, bawdier brand of feel-good.

Austin Chronicle

Misanthropy in the movies has a new face. And, surprising to say, it's a handsome one. A matinee-idol face, in fact. Some might even go so far as to call it "dreamy." It's the face of Paul Rudd.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips

Role Models wouldn't be anything without Mintz-Plasse, whose character occasions what may be the cinema's first really funny Marvin Hamlisch joke, and whose camera presence is at once unfailingly modest and distinctive.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

It's disposable entertainment at its most extreme.

New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier

Where on the evolutionary scale of wacky-dudes-learn-to-grow-up movies does Role Models fall? Certainly less evolved than "Meatballs," but head and hairy knuckles above "Daddy Day Care" or "The Benchwarmers."