This movie is not quite heartwarming, but by the end of it you will be happy to have gotten to enjoy a story whose characters were way more important than their plot.
Paul Rudd, after having a hard day (he hates his job chugging energy drinks and his girlfriend dumps him) ends up being forced to do community service with a Big/Little program. So he gets stuck with a nerdy kid who likes to play fantasy reenactments with the local cosplayers. Oh, and his partner and only friend is a man-child who gets dragged along for the ride and he gets stuck with a foul mouthed little black kid.
Eventually they all learn to like each other and that's when the movie does the most self conscious (or just god awful) thing I have ever seen a movie let itself do. Rudd wins back his girlfriend with the most uninspired written on the fly love song ever. While some might like to think they they were just shoehorning a happy ending on to a story that need to tie of a lose end somehow, I like to think that they were deliberately mocking this sort of thing in other movies. And if this is the case, I might have to watch the whole movie over again just to see if I can catch if they are really mocking the genre of movie that has made this movie's leads stars.
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