Paul Rudd charms in weekend opener 'Our Idiot Brother'

Role Models star Paul Rudd has charmed critics in the August 26 opener, Our Idiot Brother. Rudd plays a laid-back farmer who finds himself in a precarious situation when he sells drugs to a uniformed police officer. After being released from prison, Rudd’s character, Ned, seeks shelter and support from his three busy, successful sisters (played by Elizabeth Banks, Emily Mortimer and Zooey Deschanel).

According to The Los Angeles Times, the film “draws inspiration from the lives of its kin creators: Jesse Peretz directs and Evgenia Peretz, his sister, co-wrote the screenplay with her husband, David Schisgall.” It is stated that the critics were won over because Paul Rudd played such an easy-going, loveable character and gave a great performance. The article reports that A.O. Scott of the New York Times claims "if he [Ned] were played by anyone other than Paul Rudd, he would be utterly unbearable."

Movie review site Rotten Tomatoes reports the movie as receiving a 66 percent “fresh” review from critics and 70 percent from audiences.

If anything, it seems that just Paul Rudd’s performance alone in Our Idiot Brother is what makes the movie worth watching.