A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

THEY NEEDED A BETTER TAILOR: It's rare you can see the seams in a movie as much as you can in Dinner For Schmucks. Not only can you blatantly tell that some parts were written for performers other than those playing them (I'd be shocked if the Jemaine Clement part wasn't written for/envisioned as Russell Brand, for instance), you can readily see where scenes got trimmed for being too cruel, and there's a major performer (who's unbilled in the opening credits) who seems as though his scenes might have been entirely added in late reshoots. Add to it Steve Carell basically playing Michael Scott at his most oblivious/awkward/painful, and it's a film that has a bunch of very funny people in it who clearly had the time of their life making the movie that nonetheless manages to be not-terribly-funny. If Carell wants to have a post-Office career as a movie actor, he needs to step away from Michael Scott, and this is a step back.