SnoopyStyle Tim Lippe (Ed Helms) is a reserved small town insurance salesman in Brown Valley, Wisconsin. He sleeps with his former teacher Macy Vanderhei. They are "basically pre-engaged". Brown Star Insurance is in line for an important Christian two diamond award from a trade association. When their ace presenter Roger commits suicide, Tim is sent to the big city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa to make the presentation. His boss Bill Krogstad sets him up with trusted Ronald Wilkes as his roommate and warns against Dean Ziegler. He's surprised by Ziegler as his other roommate. He falls for insurance agent Joan Ostrowski-Fox from Omaha, Nebraska. Orin Helgesson is the president of the trade association. Tim is clueless that Bree might be a prostitute working the convention.The stakes may not be earth shattering but it is massive for these characters. This takes the conservative provincial world of insurance and digs up some fun inappropriate nuggets. The best thing in the movie is the great cast delivering well conceived characters. It's light subversive humor with some big laughs. John C. Reilly and Anne Heche are terrific. Ed Helms is hilarious embodying this small town guy. It's a comedy operating at a slower speed and it's fun to see. It's also an engaging drama about morality.

nowego Deciding to watch this was totally based on the IMDb reviews so I wasn't sure what to expect. Happily after watching this twice in a few days I can say it really hit the spot.Not being a huge fan of any of the leads and not having seen anything of Ed Helms prior I was not expecting anything brilliant here, but I really enjoyed this both times watching. I would regard this as a feel good comedy rather than a straight out comedy. Some of the humour would not be appreciated by everyone and will probably be regarded as quite silly, but I think it suited the movie.John C. Reilly's movies can be a bit hit and miss, as his humour tends toward toilet humour in many cases and if you are not into that it can be a bit of a turn off. While some of the humour is a bit lowbrow, if you can get over that you will enjoy this movie.I gave it a 7 out of 10 and will be watching it again.

mephotography2001 This is one of those independent movies with some named stars (Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, Anne Heche) that catches on with critics and artsy folks. It's pretty much just a grown-up version of "Superbad", a coming-of-age story (Superbad) with a nerdy, fish-out-of-water guy (Superbad) getting in all sorts of trouble including a party with drugs (Superbad), a fight (Superbad), and a saucy redhead (Superbad), and while Emma Stone is WA-A-A-AY hotter than Anne Heche, Anne looked kinda nice with long reddish hair. But I digress. It was pretty decent with enough funny thrown in. In the special features there was a theatrical trailer, which I found ironic because I didn't believe this movie ever made it to the theaters, but it did (consult this site).

Dillon Schohr Insurance agent Tim Lippe (Ed Helms) is sent to represent his company at a conference in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. When he gets there, he is to room with the out-going loud mouthed Dean Ziegler (John C. Reilly)I had a lot of high hopes for this film, and it definitely has some funny parts, but overall the film is just an hour and a half of Ed Helms being the awkward, quirky loser who gets to have sex with the hot girl.John C. Reilly was nothing special either, he seems like he is playing the same roles over and over again. Just like his comedic partner in crime Will Ferrell was doing for awhile. They spit out all the weird random humor, and this time it was not pulled off.Anne Heche was beautiful, but thats about it. My favorite main character was Isiah Whitlock Jr.'s character Ronald Wilkes, who plays the straight-laced token black guy, but he gets more laughs then the two stars do. The film does have great cameos from Thomas Lennon, and Rob Corddry.Miguel Arteta has directed two other films that I have seen "The Good Girl" which I thoroughly enjoyed. Then there was "Youth In Revolt" which took me awhile to get into, but the last half of the film has funny moments, and now "Cedar Rapids" which was truly disappointing. I hope his next film is better. If anyone feels different about this film. Please let me know what you liked about it. Im curious to hear other peoples opinions. I give Cedar Rapids a 6 out of 10