Two men sit down and talk on TV. One is a disgraced U.S. President whose motives for the interview apparently start and end with the $600,000 fee. The other is a dilettante socialite with ambitions. The interview becomes a sparring match, as the president's evasions become more and more desperate...

In line with his other recent screenplays (The Last King of Scotland, The Queen), Morgan brings recent history to vivid, urgent life, aided by great performances from Langella and Sheen, not to mention an incredibly strong supporting cast. Filmed largely on the real locations (including Nixon's house at San Clemente), this is great history-based drama (audiences should be made aware that the phone-call scene is, as far as anybody's aware, entirely fictitious ((ndash)) but then again so was Queen Elizabeth's encounter with the stag and the entire James McAvoy character in Last King. Movies aren't always real, kids!)

Role Models looks like another Apatow-esque movie. Which is great. Forgetting Sarah Marshall was not only really funny, it had a delightful heart-warming charm to it. Pineapple Express is one of those movies that you'll not be too impressed with at first, but the more you watch it, the more you'll like it: incidentally, the entertainment-factor gets better the further you get into the film. Superbad is the type of movie you take a girl to on a first date because you know you're not going to score (because you're lame enough to take someone to a movie on a date in this day and age) and so feel you might as well warm yourself up for the inevitable awkwardness that will follow.

Brilliant!

But classifying Role Models in the same category as these movies is a bit premature and unfair as they are not Apatow movies (despite there being perhaps a few familiar cast members); however, based on the trailers, it looks like it will be deliciously distasteful to a degree.

The basic premise is this: two guys, Danny Donahue and Wheeler (Rudd and Scott) work for an energy drink company, get into trouble and need to enter a mentoring programme helping children. That's all you need to know, plus this: there's this bit in the trailer where the guys are driving some kids home and then a child open-hand palm-slaps one of the lead characters. Open-hand palm-slaps. Sold. This movie is certain to be mindless fun, but if you can admit to enjoying the occasional piece of filth (Apatow-esque movies, anyone?), then this movie should at least get a few laughs out of you for about an hour and a half.