Tim, a rising executive, works for a boss who hosts a monthly event in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career boost. Tim decides to skip it until he bumps into Barry, an IRS employee who builds dioramas using stuffed mice. However, the scheme backfires...
With moments of fitful hilarity, the pairing of Paul Rudd, Steve Carell and a talented cast of secondary actors, there's plenty here to keep summer comedy fans satiated, if not entirely satisfied.
The actors have been placed in a story that is not inherently funny, and they do what they can to muscle it, through their not inconsiderable talents, into working. It doesn't, and you can see the sweat.
