Paul Rudd is the reason to see this raunchy, fairly smart dumb comedy from writer-director David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer, The Ten). He plays a misanthropic energy-drink salesman so hilariously bitter about the state of the world – and his pathetic place in it – he turns self-hatred into a sardonic art form. After a temper tantrum lands him and his partner (Seann William Scott) community-service hours, they’re paired up with two troubled kids in a mentoring program. Rudd is left free to roam, so that the redemption is nicely kept at bay until the last possible minute.
