Dinner for Schmucks (review with Spoilers)

[Afterthought]

Dinner for Schmucks is a decent comedy film. You have your standard "office guy with a problem and a hot girlfriend" played by Paul Rudd, who is looking to get promoted. To get the new job, he has to bring a guest to the company's private dinner, where said guest must win for being the biggest loser, the non-weight losing variety. And said loser is played perfectly by Steve Carell. His skill (of the hundreds of things you can laugh at) is dead mouse theatre. Which is funnier than it reads, trust me on this.

We now queue the hi-jinx because Rudd has involved the biggest idiot this side of "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" into his life and we get some above average comedy out of it. Such as: mistaken identity, evil ex's, "Turbo Penguin", a psycho (yet funny) artist who can teach us all some life lessons. The last chance for laughs is at the dinner itself where Zach Galifianakis (who gets some good lines in himself) is triumphed by BRAIN CONTROL where the most interesting gun fight this side of the Matrix is duelled out. WITH MIND BULLETS! again, funnier when seeing it rather than reading it.

In the end, all the good people triumph (even if it takes some soul searching) and the bad people end up failing badly. Which makes you wonder who the real Schmucks at the dinner table actually were. AH, blew with your mind with that one. 8.71 smashies.