Danny (Paul Rudd) and Anson (Seann William Scott) are energy drink promoters, a bit like Red Bull but this stuff makes your urine go green. When Danny's girlfriend breaks up with him he gets into a fight with a tow truck driver after a drinks promotion at a school and both end up getting community service.

They enrol in a program run by Gayle (Jane Lynch) an ex drug addict where they are mentors to younger kids. Danny gets Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) who is heavily into dungeons and dragons type role playing. Danny gets a foul mouthed young black kid called Ronnie. Both initially do their community service to count down their hours but realise they need to do more to help these kids and bond with them.

Role Models has six credited writers and yet manage to make a forgettable film. It was not until Ken Jeong showed up playing the king in the medieval role playing segment that I realised I had seen this film before!

It is an uneasy mixture of bawdy, crude with cloying sentimentality of letting kids be themselves and not let parents mess them up. This might be true for Augie whose mum just wants him to be normal and be out of her way so she can be with her boyfriend. However I cannot buy that Ronnie is so foul mouthed and annoying because his father left him when he was young. We see his mum as loving and supportive.

As for the main characters they play the type they have played before. Scott is a variation of Stifler, Rudd is the rather bland sarcastic type, his girlfriend seems to have dumped him because he is not boring enough. Only Jane Lynch gets the best lines as the ex crackhead. The final role playing battle where our main characters come in dressed as members of the rock group Kiss is fun.