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Tim (Paul Rudd) has one big chance to impress his boss: by bringing an idiot Barry (Steve Carell), who makes mouse dioramas to a dinner at which mockery is the main course. Director Jay Roach's remake of a French farce neatly juggles big laughs with the subtler ribaldry of acute pain.