Memo to Seann William Scott: You have too many 'n's in your name and it's annoying.

Another memo to Seann William Scott: Fire your agent! This American Pie schtick was old six months after you did it the first time and if the only roles your agent can get you are more of the same - despite your having proven yourself capable of more the few times you've actually tried something else - then you need to toss him out on his ass. Pronto. Do it while you still have a career.

Yet another memo to Seann William Scott: Get on your knees and thank God for Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Paul Rudd because if Role Models succeeds it'll be entirely to their credit while if it fails all those nasty feelings are coming straight at you.

Right. Role Models.Seann William Scott is Wheeler, the irritating and perpetually adolescent hanger on to Rudd's far more serious Danny. The unlikely pair are traveling pitchman for a new energy drink, Danny taking the stage and shilling to school kids while Wheeler prances around in a mascot costume. Wheeler, because he's an idiot, loves his life. Danny, because he's actually fairly intelligent, realizes that his life sucks to the nth degree, is nothing at all like what he dreamed of for himself and has been completely consumed by bitterness, so much so that his lawyer-girlfriend - played by the ridiculously over exposed Elizabeth Banks - ditches him, thereby costing Danny the only decent thing he has in his life and prompting a very public temper tantrum that gets both Danny and Wheeler ordered to perform community service in some sort of Big Brother organization.

Wheeler gets matched with a fatherless black kid written as such an enormous cliche that he's not worth mentioning. And so I won't. Danny, however, gets Augie, an awkward teen played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse. And Augie is a LARPer, one of those guys who dresses up in silly costumes to engage in large scale, live action role play. And while wide swathes of Role Models is so bad as to be nearly unwatchable the LARPing sequences are GENIUS, Rudd and Mintz-Plasse delivering the film's only actual performances in the midst of a sea of stale, not even remotely shocking, bad teen humor.

No, Role Models is not a good movie. It's actually quite bad. But in the midst of the crap there's just enough going on to make an argument that Paul Rudd - who also co-wrote this thing - has got a little something going on while Mintz-Plasse - McLovin' in Superbad - may just end up being the most unique talent of his generation. I don't know that I'd ever pay to see it in the theatre again but when the DVD release rolls around this one may be worth a look if only to skip through to the Danny / Augie sequences.