I thoroughly enjoyed the Ed Helms comedy “Cedar Rapids.” Helms stars as Tim Lippe, a small-town Wisconsin guy who’s dispatched to an insurance seminar in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The naïve Lippe is shocked when he arrives at the conference, where three of the wildest attendees Dean Ziegler (John C. Reilly), Joan Ostrowski-Fox (Anne Heche), and Ronald Wilkes (Isiah Whitlock Jr.) befriend him and take him under their wing.
It’s hilarious to watch the adventure enlighten the emotionally immature Lippe, who undergoes a mid-life coming of age. Ed Helms is spot on as Lippe, dorky and believably inexperienced in the ways of the world. His friends are incredibly genuine and funny, but you’ll probably find yourself laughing the most at John C. Reilly’s blowhard Dean “Deansy” Ziegler.
My Grade: B+