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Dinner for Schmucks

2010
Comedy
1h 54m
When he finds out that his work superiors host a dinner celebrating the idiocy of their guests, a rising executive questions it when he's invited, just as he befriends a man who would be the perfect guest.
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Dinner for Schmucks

2010
Comedy
1h 54m
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Rated 06 Sep 2010
10
7th
Criticker thought I'd give this a 60. Clearly it thinks I'm a shmuck. This film is just awful. Uncomfortable to watch, barely ever funny, and it even kind of ruined the guy from Flight of the Conchords for me. I'm going to end this review with a note to Hollywood: Stop casting Zach Galifianakis as the same character every film. It was kind of funny at first but now I feel like I'm laughing at a guy with autism. Well, I would feel like that, if he were funny in this film.
Rated 27 Aug 2010
77
16th
The hype that surrounds Steve Carell as a title character precedes itself. The rising action can easily be characterized as boring and slow. Dinner for Schmucks had many hilarious interjections, but were loosely spread out through the entire film. The actual dinner part was the liveliest part but was cut short due to the rest of the movie. The acting though, on the other hand, was superior.
Rated 01 Aug 2010
45
9th
The dinner itself is the best part of the movie and as such is only 15 mins long. The rest of the movie was a long drawn out sitcom which would have solved itself if someone would have just called the police.
Rated 05 Aug 2010
70
53rd
The spiritual successor to Meet the Parents in awkwardness.
Rated 20 Oct 2010
1
0th
"Actors are paid to be embarrassing, and audiences pay to get embarrassed. That's the lesson to learn from Dinner for Schmucks, an idiot-comedy for idiots."
Rated 28 Dec 2010
1
8th
Really, really, really, really, really bad. The whole film is based on the premise that Carell doing loud noises and Galifianakis playing the same character he does in everything is extremely funny. Its not.
Rated 30 Dec 2010
72
32nd
Silly and over the top, especially Carrell's performance, but it's pretty well written and consistently amusing if never great..
Rated 10 Jan 2011
40
43rd
See if you can find the dinner scene on YouTube or something, it is worth the watch. Other than that it was highly predictable, but not entirely without humor. I had wondered what Carell's "talent" would be in the film, and I have to say that a taxidermist who dresses dead mice up and puts them in arranged scenes is pretty brilliant.
Rated 20 Dec 2011
40
12th
A dumbed down remake of a nice French comedy. No room for subtlety, no wit. An insult to the viewer's intelligence, as with most American comedies.
Rated 03 Feb 2016
40
10th
There are only two things in life: sexy sex and boring death. This movie falls under the latter.
Rated 11 Jan 2011
76
39th
Surprisingly funny! Carell is a bit overdrawn, but overall absolutely watchable.
Rated 10 Feb 2013
55
32nd
I enjoyed it enough. It wasn't amazing or ground breaking and most people probably won't like it, but I'm ok with silly things and this is very much a silly thing.
Rated 28 Aug 2010
100
83rd
This is by far one of the funniest movies ive ever seen. Certain characters in the movie at a business firm find crazy weird poeple and invite them to dinner to make fun of. The main characters person was the funniest. everything he said was off the wall and hilarious. but while this is a comedy, the main character learned that although the person he met was funny, its not right to laugh at people like that because its not right and he ends up becoming good friends with him
Rated 20 Aug 2011
67
42nd
The original was an amazingly funny movie with very few characters & mostly taking place in one house. This movie is all over the place, a lot of characters, lot of stuff happening & a feel good ending. Not a patch on the original, but there are few laughs.
Rated 06 Jan 2011
54
25th
Steve Carell saved this movie from being a 10
Rated 21 Sep 2011
30
10th
Carell doesn't deliver the humour. Galifianakis, in a smaller role, sort of does but that can't save the movie.
Rated 16 Sep 2011
64
44th
It's undeniably stupid (even cringe worthy at points) and cliche but it does its job at being a feel good comedy and it does it well. I legitimately laughed and smiled through most of it.
Rated 19 Jan 2011
50
26th
Not very good, but I can't rate a movie with Steve Carell in it under 50.
Rated 07 Mar 2011
64
40th
Steve Carell is so good at playing these types of roles, but if they made his character a tad more intelligent, this would have been a much better movie.
Rated 08 Jul 2017
59
31st
When I laughed, I laughed good. However I kinda stopped paying attention midway through it... when the mushrooms kicked in.
Rated 19 Dec 2010
2
5th
I'm giving +1 to this unbearable piece of garbage only for the opening credits. Please, someone, kill Carell. The. Most. Annoyingly Unfunny. Douchebag. EVER!
Rated 27 Dec 2011
50
27th
Okay to watch. Steve Carell and Zach Galifianakis are funny as usual but the movie itself is rather weak.
Rated 06 Sep 2010
1
6th
Zack Galifianakis makes me give it a point, other than that, god awful
Rated 27 Dec 2010
65
52nd
Not a great comedy, but yields an unpretentious fun.
Rated 17 Sep 2011
17
9th
#11#, popcorn, story, P Rudd
Rated 03 Nov 2012
76
57th
So bad its good, if you know what I mean. I think its an art-house film rather than a hollywood blockbuster, but in the end the movie demonstrates that everyone is a schmuck, even the viewer for sitting through such untolerable crap. I think a lot of people missed the point of this movie. Very very funny, instant classic!
Rated 03 Aug 2011
70
34th
The title misleads the public into thinking that this would take place more at the dinner than it really did, also it left the impression that this movie would be funny, which it is not. It tries to pull off one of those idiotically, heartfelt stories, but misses a bit on the heartfelt part.
Rated 23 Feb 2012
57
23rd
Not nearly as entertaining as I would have hoped. I did think a lot of aspects of the film were cute, but taken as a whole the movie fails to deliver the laughs it promises. I will say that Stephanie Szostak is incredibly hot, and could certainly stand to see her in more films.
Rated 28 May 2012
53
20th
Horrible, horrible script. But some funny individuals make it ok overall. Jemaine Clement in particular is hilarious
Rated 14 Jul 2014
76
14th
Forgot I watched it. Not a good sign.
Rated 31 Mar 2012
23
22nd
childish and formulaic
Rated 28 Oct 2017
30
10th
Let's make fun of people who are different than us! Yay! If you couldn't tell, that was sarcasm. This film is an awful piece of trash that should have been burned instead of released.
Rated 03 Jan 2011
70
29th
Was just as funny as the trailers as it led from one great awkward moment to the next. Carell is excellent as the nice idiot who tries so hard to make right yet fails miserably every time and every scene with him and Galifinakis together is great.
Rated 13 Jan 2011
62
30th
Has some pretty funny moments but it seems like not as many as it should with such a talented cast.
Rated 25 Aug 2010
80
70th
You people take yourselves WAY too seriously. Lighten up! What we have here is a polished, over-the-top-but-not-obnoxious, totally UPROARIOUS comedy, with some truly great individual performances across the board. Carell, Rudd, Zach-G, and Clement are all fantastic. There were so many great one-liners coupled with fresh comedic strategies. Easily the best screwball comedy since Hangover, and was as hard as I've laughed in a good long while at the movies. Really, you can't ask for much more here.
Rated 17 Aug 2016
72
30th
A squandered waste on a good cast. The material essentially fails all around and the film is mired by Steve Carell making a rare poor character choice.
Rated 26 Nov 2017
54
4th
An OK comedy for a gathering between friends. An average business-man goes into a endless torrent of cliche misunderstandings while he tries to wins over his boss' favor using that new guy he just met. Carrel does an amazing job doing his part and while the joke sometimes went on for a little bit too long, at the end you will find yourself charmed by the hilarity of the situations. While "Dinner for Schmucks" is not the best the genre has to offer, you will definitely get a laugh out of it.
Rated 07 Apr 2012
66
25th
Movie looses its appeal after awhile and resorts to cheap laughs.
Rated 30 Nov 2012
35
25th
Seriously awful. I get the "he's dumb and clueless" vibe, but it doesn't work. Paul Rudd has better things to do than this.
Rated 01 Jan 2011
75
44th
Acayip eğlendik. Komedi filmine göre süresi biraz uzun olsa da ekranda Steve Carrel varken insan sıkılmıyor asla. Mutlaka tavsiye ederim. Özellikle 4-5 kişi izlemek ayrı bir tad veriyor.
Rated 04 Dec 2011
77
23rd
Uneven and out of solid gags, Dinner for Schmucks is too bizarre. I thought it was kind of funny.
Rated 30 May 2011
4
31st
Zach Galifianakis rules. The movie overall is terrible, but the last 30 minutes is really great.
Rated 07 Mar 2011
51
75th
This was hilarious! I think that we paused it twice because we were laughing too hard. The only scene that really sucked was the business lunch, but other than that it was great.
Rated 27 Apr 2011
72
47th
Dinner for Schmucks has its funny moments, mostly due to the humor of Carell, but it also has its unfortunately poor romance cliches
Rated 19 Nov 2011
47
16th
Steve Carell's character seems less like a person and more like an animated vessel for gags and one-liners.
Rated 02 Aug 2010
56
58th
Comedy about an executive who aspires to scale the corporate ladder by ensuring that he brings the dumbest guest to his boss's weekly dinner party assembled to showcase such losers. A number of bits don't work, some of the characters wear out their welcome, but the whole suckers you into an agreeable state of idiot bliss..
Rated 27 Jan 2011
37
25th
Potentially there was a good film here, hidden underneath all the bad direction & editing. "Dinner for Schmucks" has one or two really nice moments, & is amusing. Unfortunately this film emphasises all of its own weaknesses & none of its strengths. The focus on the Rudd's romance & the slapstick elements take away from the high potential of Carell's character & his relationship with Rudd. All this movie had to do was focus & expand on the emotionally fragile mad taxidermist! Swing & a miss.
Rated 31 Jul 2010
0
12th
A softened, mushed-up remake of a rather distasteful French farce, called here The Dinner Game. Any sensitive viewer will be compelled to surrender his sense of moral or intellectual superiority by wanting fervently to kill the bumbling idiot for turning the fat cat's life upside down in the twenty-four hours prior to the dinner, or else to kill the fat cat for enabling the idiot to do it. Like the French version, the film is quite nice-looking, but nowhere near as nice as the French.
Rated 08 Aug 2010
22
0th
Great opening titles sequence.
Rated 28 Jan 2011
64
31st
Mediocre at its best. The only really funny part was the outtakes extra on the DVD.
Rated 03 Jul 2011
12
8th
I did not find this funny. Not a single laugh-out-loud moment in the whole thing; just one or two smirks and a whole lot of trying-hard boring.
Rated 24 Jul 2011
70
10th
Good story, the dinner scene completely saved this movie
Rated 24 Jan 2012
63
14th
funny at times, mean at others
Rated 22 Dec 2013
2
21st
Almost as bad as the original
Rated 28 Nov 2010
3
24th
"Dinner for Schmucks" has great moments. Unfortunately they're hidden in the periphery of an awful rom-com. Most of the film is spent watching Rudd trying to suck up to his bosses and rescue his relationship with his girlfriend. Both parts are equally mind-numbingly boring. The only rays of light that shine through are Clement (of "Flight of the Conchords" fame) and Galifianakis, who lend the piece some raw, inspired randomness as a überwacko artist and mindreading tax agent. A wasted chance.
Rated 07 Mar 2011
33
2nd
you'll get only a couple of chucks from these schmucks.........
Rated 02 Aug 2010
20
5th
This movie is less than two hours long, yet its eponymous "dinner for schmucks" doesn't begin until 90 minutes in. Every scene not centered on Steve Carrell is downright painful, and even some of the scenes that *are* centered on him he can't save. Zach Galifianakis might have been able to pick up some of the film's slack, but he himself doesn't show up until 60 minutes in... and that's just for one 5-minute scene, after which he disappears, returning only for the final 10 minutes of the dinner.
Rated 03 Jan 2011
65
38th
I really wanted to like this movie. It was predictable, the characters weren't particularly likable and the laughs were far too few.
Rated 10 Mar 2012
74
57th
This movie actually surprised me a bit as I didn't think it would be as funny as it was. Steve Carell makes the movie, and does a very good job in what I would call his best comedic role yet.
Rated 28 Jan 2013
60
8th
Nothing original added in this half decent comedy remake of the French film "Le diner des cons" . Not a huge fan of Carell, he gives an all right performance, but I expected a bit more from Roach. The story/script/directing all mediocre at best. Only for the bored nights!
Rated 04 Aug 2010
81
65th
I laughed a lot, mostly when Jemaine Clement was on the screen. Touching at times, and never boring. Definitely worth a shot.
Rated 05 Jan 2011
1
0th
Where could this go so wrong? I'm guessing it was doomed from the start. Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis---you have all three caused me side-splitting laughter in your other endeavors. In 'Dinner for Schmucks' I wanted my eyes gouged out and ears pealed off my head. Even that wouldn't have been as painful as this movie. Dead in the water from beginning to end, the movie expects us to accept completely bizarre characters in an otherworldly planet with zero laughs per two full hours.
Rated 18 Feb 2011
63
19th
A pretty conventional comedy with some really surreal moments and bizarre characters. It's over-long, with not enough bite or pathos, and has an unnecessary sacharine rom-com plot. Clement was funny as usual.
Rated 17 Jan 2011
75
77th
highly recommended
Rated 16 Aug 2010
71
43rd
So funny. I love Steve Carell. A good comedy; nothing more, nothing less.
Rated 22 Dec 2010
60
23rd
First off, I love Paul Rudd. I always enjoy watching him. He also delivered a great line at the beginning. I'm not really a fan of Zach G, I've learned. I expected a lot more due to the great beginning. But then it lost itself a bit, for a little too long. Then the dinner came and it was a great movie again.. it was a little too late to make me give this at least a 70, but these really really low reviews I'm seeing disappoint me, regardless.
Rated 07 Apr 2011
45
6th
Did have a few laughs, Carell is always great but the original was so much better.. Why take them out of the room.. And that dinner scene.. Meh..
Rated 20 May 2011
62
19th
I don't know why I keep watching these "cringe" comedies... they make me uncomfortable more than amused. But this one had a couple really funny scenes.
Rated 22 Jan 2012
60
15th
Although this movie had some annoying parts to it, I will say that it was also pretty enjoyable. I thought the work with the Mice Taxidermy (You'll have to see for your self) was really cute and the story itself was pretty endearing at the end. Rudd was doing his usual role and Carell played his usual part of the idiot. I had a lot of laughs and sometimes shook my head because it just wasn't funny at times. Worth maybe watching once if you think Steve Carell is really funny.
Rated 26 Oct 2012
58
31st
* Casting, Acting : 6 * Script : 6 * Directing, Aura : 6 * Ease of Viewing : 6 * Naked Eye : 5
Rated 10 Feb 2013
45
23rd
Often funny and over the top, because the roles of Carell and Ruud provide some good gags and jokes -- and Roach proves he's still the master of comedies about embarrassing situations --, but Dinner is, for the most part, also an overlong and overtoned film.
Rated 20 Mar 2011
60
34th
Eglenceli. Orjinalini degistirmekle iyi yapmislar.
Rated 15 Dec 2011
73
37th
This is a funny film. Steve Carell is very funny and there are numerous good supporting performances. The funniest of the supporting performances are Zack Galifianakis and Jemaine Clement. The plot is fairly predictable but the funny characters make up for the average plot.
Rated 07 Mar 2011
60
38th
Some amusing bits, especially interesting as it featured Jemaine from Flight of the Conchords and Kirsten Schaal from Flight of the Conchords.
Rated 15 Jun 2013
2
46th
partial
Rated 22 Oct 2010
20
41st
"Dinner for Schmucks is the type of fatuous American comedy that hopes you'll excuse its narrative's logical inadequacies because it's just a comedy, stoopid." - Simon Abrams
Rated 24 Nov 2011
76
59th
the blind guy was the winner for me :)
Rated 09 Sep 2012
30
4th
Almost completely devoid of self-awareness, a point or laughs.
Rated 02 Jun 2013
60
47th
Some interesting moments, some crude ones. Okay movie though.
Rated 27 Feb 2011
74
46th
Entertaining comedy which works mainly for Carell's quite wonderful comic performance as the ultimate buffoon. While virtually nothing else is especially memorable, the film is light and entertaining, and not mean-spirited in the slightest, despite the potentially unpleasant subject matter. Gotta love the mouse art!
Rated 31 Dec 2016
80
47th
Will see later
Rated 03 Aug 2010
35
10th
This was supposed to be a comedy, but they switched some things around. Instead of the expected 75% comedy 25% predictable plot we get 75% predictable plot and 25% comedy. I only give this a passing score because when it tried to be funny it really was. The actual dinner scene and all scenes involving Zach Galifianakis and Jemaine Clement are kind of funny. Unfortunately they are too few and far between and instead we get to watch Paul Rudd transform from an unfunny dick hole to an unfunny saint
Rated 18 Feb 2013
42
31st
It's fairly amusing, mostly because I found Rudd and Carell to be likable. But the story sort of dragged, and it wasn't that hilarious, especially with the main concept being the world's funniest dinner. It didn't help that the romantic aspects and the extremes of stupidity often felt contrived instead of sincere.
Rated 21 Nov 2016
77
56th
good premise that may be cheesy and ridiculous but sets up some laughs
Rated 12 Apr 2011
20
7th
Clement is great and Galifianakis is pretty decent too. The rest is pure horror.
Rated 08 May 2011
35
26th
With the amount of quality in American sitcoms, it makes no sense that there are no funny feature length comedies coming from Hollywood. Sadly this piece of shit is above averages from the genre.
Rated 20 Dec 2010
65
30th
Not much different from the average "Paul Rudd feel-good movies". Great idea adopted from a strange French movie, but Americanized to the point that the weirdness what should have made the movie HUGE had to make room for the boring feel-goodness and acceptance of retarded people that really do a number on your life.. Non the less, I had to laugh many many times. Great job Steve Carell! I expected more from Galifianakis..
Rated 21 Nov 2011
55
11th
Not good, but it's watchable.
Rated 26 Jul 2014
68
22nd
Steve Carell should play every idiot role in every film, as well as being retroactively edited into every previous film.
Rated 13 Jul 2011
52
10th
so sad to see these brilliant comedy actors in this mediocre movie... not one single laugh... I had some hopes when David Walliams appeared on screen halfway through the movie, but he was also lousy and joined the `team of losers`
Rated 14 Aug 2010
65
49th
I laffed. Nothing to write home about, but a good goofy one. Sign o' the times. I'll revisit in fifteen years and I bet I love it, nostalgically.
Rated 08 Jan 2011
35
11th
The only schmucks here are the people who forked out money to see this purposely annoying movie at the movie theater!
Rated 03 Dec 2012
45
8th
A little tiresome, liked the cast, but wasn't that funny.
Rated 19 Aug 2010
35
23rd
There are some downright funny moments, but Paul Rudd and Steve Carell are distracting and unfunny and it becomes painful. I'm starting to lose faith in comedies.
Rated 22 Dec 2010
70
38th
Few funny sequences and some good acting by carrell and rudd. Disappointed in the abrupt ending though.
Rated 28 Dec 2010
40
6th
just horrible
Rated 20 Feb 2014
10
0th
An embarrassment for everyone involved. Especially Carell.
Rated 20 Sep 2010
75
42nd
The original is a bit better, but I gotta give to Carrel, he's good.
Rated 19 Dec 2010
75
8th
A heartwarming tale with not as much humor as I was expecting. I feel like This movie has been done before.
Rated 12 May 2012
50
26th
Steve Carell just sucks

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