“Pile-Up of Poor Judgment”

Before Jesse Peretz‘s My Idiot Brother had been retitled Our Idiot Brother (8.26) by the Weinstein Co., it was slammed at Sundance by Hollywood Reporter critic John deFore. The film, he said, “shambles along with all the purposefulness of its title character, a kind of near-beer Lebowski who’s neither reckless enough to cheer for nor misguided enough to disdain.

Paul Rudd‘s Ned Rochlin, recently released from jail and broke, wanders through his three sisters’ homes, inadvertently revealing that each has as much to answer for as their brother who sold dope to a policeman in uniform. Each episode yields laughs, but the many parallel screw-ups don’t build to the kind of crescendo the film needs; it may be no worse than Rudd’s latest vehicle, How Do You Know, but it’s yet another leading role that fails to live up to Rudd’s talent, and it’s hard to imagine it approaching the commercial success of his more high-concept studio comedies.”

18 thoughts on ““Pile-Up of Poor Judgment”

  1. I dunno – that looks pretty funny. They could have done without the Train song at the beginning, though. Banks looks nice.

  2. I don’t think that many other people slammed it though. It wasn’t revered by any means, but most were satisfied.

  3. I fear Paul Rudd becoming the American Steven Coogan – something who’s too good and too smart for almost anything he has a chance of being cast in. He was genuinely amazing in “How Do You Know” and “I Love You, Man,” so he’s certainly not a bad fit for mainstream, studio comedies.

  4. Rudd is a great actor who needs to move into drama (in which I think he could excel). In particular, I think he’d make an excellent villain of the Jerry Lundegaard variety.

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