10 Awful Movies How I Met Your Mother Actors Want Us To Forget
6. Social Animals
Of all the things you can be typecast as, “lame husband who’s not having sex with his wife” is among the least enviable, but somehow this is the path Josh Radnor’s career has taken. Five years after Afternoon Delight, Radnor once again found himself in the role he’s sadly born to play, the unappealing bloke in a minor indie release.
This time Radnor’s asked to do a lot more of the heavy lifting as a prominent part of the ensemble. He’s a commendably reserved actor outside of the sitcom bubble and he certainly sells the character (an adult video store owner, for some daft reason) to the best of his abilities, but he’s betrayed by a script that never goes anywhere.
With a talented cast including Aya Cash and Samira Wiley, there was plenty of opportunity to make something more than half decent here, but the finished project is a bit of a plod. To say Radnor would like us to forget this one is probably a little generous, on the basis few remember it in the first place.