Bad movies are sometimes rendered diabolical in light of all the missed opportunities and bad choices contained within them. Dinner For Schmucks, where Paul Rudd invites atomic dork Steve Carell to the monthly office freak show/dinner party, is that kind of bad movie. Its sins: Rudd plays another of one of his interchangeable stressed-but-otherwise steady dude roles; the supporting characters—Zach Galifianakis as an expert mind-controller and Jemaine Clement as an over-sexed artist—deserve their own movie; and the female leads are frustratingly underwritten, particularly Kristen Schaal as simply “the assistant” and Stephanie Szostak as “the outraged girlfriend.”
This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2010.
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