Steve Carell’s character in “Dinner for Schmucks” is almost too ... that the faker is sleeping with his wife. That’s the funniest mockery Barry endures, and used too sparingly for Galifian ...

After Barry’s antics convince Tim to attend the dinner, a smattering of hilarity – along with an unfortunate overdose of creepiness and mindless cacophony – ensues. The first saboteur to ruin the ...

A remake of the 1998 French film "The Dinner Game" ("Le Dîner de Cons"), "Dinner for Schmucks"'s opening credits ... great deal about Carell's character Barry Speck, even before we meet him.

In other words, the perfect dinner guest. Jay Roach’s “Dinner ... Like most of the other women in the movie, including Barry’s grotesque ex-wife, she’s a cruel caricature.

(L-R) Octavia Spencer as Madame Nora, Patrick Fischler as Vincenzo, Paul Rudd as Tim, Steve Carell as Barry, Rick Overton as Chuck and Jeff Dunham as Lewis in "Dinner for Schmucks." (L-R ...

But even with its A-list names, “Dinner for Schmucks” was more precarious than most, as though the same unseen forces that make Barry such a ... Parkes’ wife and partner, Laurie MacDonald ...

A pest on a colossal scale, “a tornado of destruction” in Tim’s words, Barry is the least amusing nominally comic character in memory. Making things worse is “Dinner for Schmucks ...

No schmucks were harmed in the making of Dinner for Schmucks ... literally runs into Barry (Carell): The former is behind the wheel of his spiffy sports car, and the latter is crossing the ...

During the screening of Dinner for Schmucks (PG-13), I was ... You laugh when the Forrest Gump-like Barry watches his ex-wife drive off with another man. You laugh when Barry realizes Tim isn ...

Dinner for Schmucks is really good at being stupid ... and straight-up obnoxiousness beyond reasonable limits. Carell is Barry, a meek, windbreaker-clad doofus, an IRS agent schlep who'll ...

Tim’s guest, who accidentally enters his life when Tim almost runs him down with his car, is Carell’s Barry Speck ... who come off best in “Dinner for Schmucks” are those dead mice.

Dinner for Schmucks is pure, sharp ... is dating a gorgeous art museum curator named Julie (Stephanie Szostak). Enter Barry (Steve Carell), a well-meaning but comically off-kilter individual ...