Your Plot: A pair of idiot ne'er-do-wells need to get a bank robbed. They don't want to do it themselves, so they order a pizza, and when the delivery guy arrives, they kidnap him, strap a bomb to him, and tell him that if he doesn't rob a bank and get them some money, he'll be blown up. So the delivery guy enlists his mate, and they go and rob a bank. Meanwhile, the idiots have hired a hitman to kill the father of one of the idiots, and the bank robbery money is to pay him off, and he gets more than a bit pissed off as things don't quite go to plan. Light blue touchpaper, retire, watch the fireworks.
Your Cast: Idiots - Danny McBride and Nick Swardson, with Danny McBride as Lead Idiot. Basically, he's really funny, as a puffed up egotistical moron; Supporting Idiot is fun as an ex-military bomb-tech, who's really naive.
Deliverer - Jesse Eisenberg, who's always good value for money. We've seen him before in this kind of role, and while it's no stretch for him, it's smart casting. Aziz Ansari is his sidekick, and while I'm usually pretty immune to his comic charms in stuff like Parks and Recreation and Funny People, he delivers the goods here.
The Verdict: This isn't the most original film you've every seen, but the script has the right pace, if full of funny dialogue, which is in the hands of comic actors who know what they're doing. In short, it's a comedy that'll make you laugh, nothing more, nothing less. And let's face it, these days, that's far from guaranteed.
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