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Role models stream1/20/2024 So now the poor kid’s got nothing.Īt such a low, we find Augie skulking around a family dinner attended by Danny, who quickly realizes that the kid’s mom (Kerri Kenney) and her boyfriend (Ken Marino) are a huge part of Augie’s problem. Danny stands up to the little king, and ends up getting both he and Augie unjustly booted from the realm. During one such melee (match? tourney?), Augie even honors himself by killing the great (in his fascist little mind, at least) King Argotron (Ken Jeong), but the sniveling king refuses to admit as much. While Wheeler and vulgar little Ronnie inappropriately bond over their shared admiration of female body parts, Danny and Augie find common ground on more medieval ground: the LARPing field (or is it the pitch?). RELATED: Everything coming to Peacock in November 2022: ‘Nope’, ‘The Grinch’, ‘Despicable Me,’ & more Thompson), the aforementioned scene-stealing grade schooler. Danny’s much-lewder partner in crime, Wheeler (Seann William Scott), also gets busted, and is assigned to mentor his own “little,” Ronnie (Bobb'e J. Fantastical escapism at its finest.Īfter crashing a (genre AF) Minotaur truck (named after the energy drink he schleps), Paul Rudd’s Danny escapes jail by being court assigned to be Augie’s “big,” a Big Brother-type role model in the Sturdy Wings program, a do-gooder service started by perhaps-not-so-good-but-definitely-funny Gayle Sweeny (Jane Lynch). And it’s the only thing in life that makes shy teen Augie Farks (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) come out of his depressive shell. But it’s basically the same thing - a bunch of people dressing up in medieval garb, speaking Olde English, and recreating ye ole knighthood battles of yore. Of course, in the film, LARP, aka a live-action role-playing game, is referred to as LAIRE, aka Live Action Interactive Role-playing Explorers. And that’s got everything to do with the celebration of LARPing in David Wain’s 2008 not-quite-a-fantasy film, which arrives on Peacock this month. Role Models is probably not remembered as much for its genre bona fides as it is for the largely inappropriate humor spewed from a vulgar scene-stealing grade-schooler, but we’d swear to Queen Esplanade herself that it's got a proper fantasy bent.
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