Tim, is an up-and-coming executive who has just received his first invitation to the "dinner for idiots," a monthly event hosted by his boss that promises bragging rights to the exec that shows up with the biggest buffoon. Tim's fiancee, Julie, finds it distasteful and Tim agrees to skip the dinner, until he bumps into Barry--an IRS employee who devotes his spare time to building elaborate taxidermy mouse dioramas--and quickly realizes he's struck idiot gold. Tim can't resist, and invites Barry, whose blundering good intentions soon sends Tim's life into a frenzied downward spiral and a series of misadventures, threatening a major business deal, bringing crazy stalker ex-girlfriend, Darla, back into Tim's life and driving Julie into the arms of another man.

Dinner for Schmucks was not exactly what I expected and that is due to the commercials and trailers not really giving you a good idea what the movie is about. This wasn’t actually a bad thing as there is so much more to the film than the trailers and ads let on and most of it was scene after scene of hilarity. Dinner for Schmucks is a very hilarious riot of scene after scene of ridiculous situations that just keep having a snowball effect that propels the movie forward and keeps you laughing tell your sides hurt and you are in stitches

What you get from the trailers is that the film is all about the dinner where a group of idiots are led into be made fun of and win a prize as the biggest idiot from pretentious businessmen. But this is only a small sliver of the film as the first three quarters of the film is like the Cable Guy but much more heartwarming and much less mean spirited. As Barry injec5s himself into the life of Tim and does nothing but creak havoc after havoc as his dimwitted personality knows no restraints and common sense. It makes for a fun ride leading up to the dinner where even more hilarity ensues.

The lone downfall of the film is that it telegraphs its ending as you can see what is going to happen halfway through the movie. But with the film trying to be more heartwarming and not so mean spirited there really was no way for them not to telegraph the ending. That doesn’t make the film any less funny it just kind of has the film ending on a down note instead of something maybe a little surprising or a little different.

I had grown a little tired of Steve Carrel but I have to admit I really liked him in this film as he was downright hilarious in his funniest role since the 40 Year Old Virgin. Paul Rudd on the other hand plays the movie almost to rote like they gave him the clichéd version of the role and he is just asked to paint by numbers. There is a dozen actors who could have easily done his role as he adds little to it but luckily Steve Carrel does steal the film and makes it absolutely hilarious.

Grade: B+