Another week, another Paul Rudd comedy blending raunchy humor with honest sentimentality. This time it was “Role Models,” which I watched on Blu-ray last weekend.

As common as films from the Rudd-Seth Rogen-Judd Apatow school seem these days, they manage a remarkably high level of quality. “Role Models” even triumphs over this respectable mean, largely thanks to Rudd.

Rudd's character, Danny, quips his way through a job moving energy drinks with Wheeler (Seann William Scott) while Danny's long-time girlfriend, Beth (Elizabeth Banks) grows impatient with his misanthropy. After she breaks up with him, Danny recklessly breaks the law. He and Wheeler are sentenced to 150 hours of service with a big brother program that introduces the two to Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse [McLovin' of “Superbad”]) and Ronnie (Bobb'e J. Thompson), respectively.

The live-action-role-playing-obsessed Augie's relationship with Danny is the major source of “Role Models'” charm, while Wheeler and Ronnie's foul-mouthed discussion of breasts balances out the sap with hilarious smut. Jane Lynch's big brother program coordinator provides the movie with a healthy share of random humor, most of which arises when she references the absurd depths of her past drug abuse.

Mintz-Plasse and Rudd's involvement firmly attach “Role Models” to the Apatow comedy canon, but in the hands of director David Wain, the movie feels anything but second-rate to the “40 Year-Old Virgin” director's best work.