Review: Cedar Rapids

Review: Cedar Rapids

Rating: **

Nonna's Rating: $

Rotten Tomatoes: 85%

Audience: 71%

Ed Helms of The Office plays Tim Lippe, an insurance agent from small town Wisconsin who is incredibly naive. He has never traveled out of the state, never stayed in a hotel, and hasn't had much of a love life. So, off he goes to a convention in the big city--Cedar Rapids. There he falls in with what might be called "bad company": John C. Reilly (Dean Ziegler), a wild and crazy party animal, Anne Heche (Joan Ostrowski-Fox), and Isaiah Whitlock, Jr. (Ronald Wilkes). They are all intent on breaking Tim in on the lampshade-wearing world of insurance conventions. Predictably, Tim plays along and gets in and out of trouble. Finally, all ends happily in the best of all possible worlds. It's a little movie for a quiet evening. If you enjoy Ed Helms' portrayal of sweet, innocent characters, you'll like this one.

Nonna's Ratings:

$$$$ = Worth paying the Friday evening price
$$$= Worth paying the Matinee price

$$= Worth a rental
$ = Wait for cable
# = Skip it