The spontaneity of the moments captured by OUR IDIOT BROTHER's outtakes, shown during the closing credits, in no way resemble the insipid and even insulting blather of the film itself. IDIOT is another ham-handed attempt to throw together a lengthy list of famous faces (I'm looking at you, VALENTINE'S DAY) in a bland cavalcade of cinematic clichés and flat characterizations. It's yet another corporatized, profit-maximized "comedy" showing neither ingenuity nor insight and barely qualifying as entertainment.
Paul Rudd — an actor whose innately clever sense of humor always emerges in unscripted interviews but is all too rarely displayed in his abysmal choice of films — plays Ned, a sunny, oblivious hippie type who naively asks a stranger on the subway to hold his cash. After serving an eight-month jail sentence for selling dope to an undercover cop (in a clear case of entrapment, if you ask me), he couch surfs with each of three sisters while working, not terribly hard, to get his life back on track.
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