365 Days. 365 Films.

Two energy drink salesmen, Wheeler and Danny (Sean William Scott & Paul Rudd), are travelling around the local schools promoting the product and an anti drugs message, until Danny has a bad day. After a breakup with his girlfriend, Danny loses it, destroying his sales career while getting into trouble with a police officer over a parking space. Danny’s girlfriend, Beth (Elizabeth Banks), manages to get them off on community service in a ‘Big Brother’ programme called Sturdy Wings. Despite starting off on the wrong foot with the creator of the programme, Sweeny (Jane Lynch), Wheeler and Danny are assigned to their ‘littles’; Wheeler to a fowl mouthed, spunky ten year old, and Danny to a nerdy, role playing dungeon keeper.

The kids in this film are truly the stars creating most of the comedy while Scott and Rudd play off of it. Christopher Mintz-Plasse (a.k.a. McLovin’) and Bobb’e J. Thompson are both hilarious in completely different ways, and their comedy stylings are contrasted in such a way that jokes are often missed. This is not necessarily a bad thing because it means the film is bound to get funnier the more times you watch it, finding more and more comedy you didn’t notice first time around.

The screenplay was co-written by Paul Rudd which should give an inkling to the style of comedy if you have seen the likes of The 40 Year Old Virgin or Knocked Up, although this is his first credential as a writer. Not forgetting the other three writers for this film, Rudd does well with the dialogue, sneaking a joke into almost every line and because of the sheer quantity of material in the film, there should be something for everyone.
Being a huge fan of Jane Lynch I can’t write this review without pointing out her comedy genius. The first film I saw her in was The 40 Year Old Virgin and I did think that that film would have been considerable duller without her, and the same goes for this. She manages to make every word that drips out of her mouth absolutely hilarious and she is such a character in everything she does.

This is one of the best comedies to come about in recent years and is up there with Superbad and Knocked Up. If you’re at all a fan of this new wave of comedy then you must watch this film; it’s not the best I’ve seen recently but it will definitely make you laugh.