Dinner for Schmucks




French filmmaker Francis Veber's works have long proven ripe for Hollywood adaptation, and his 1999 comedy The Dinner Game provides the source material underpinning for the odd-couple farce Dinner for Schmucks, which reunites The 40-Year-Old Virgin stars Steve Carell and Paul Rudd to generally underwhelming effect. Some mildly amusing character work and colorful detail gets largely lost in a movie that can't decide whether it wants to be sour or sweet. For the full review, from Screen International, click here. Mind the pay-wall; it's worth it, though. (Paramount/DreamWorks, PG-13, 114 minutes)

 

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