Tim Robinson is a weird dude. That weirdness is the basis for most of the comedy from the infinitely quotable I Think You Should Leave, and it’s the same thing that makes Friendship so funny. If Robinson being weird and yelling works for you, it really, really works.

In Friendship, Robinson is Craig, an average dude with no close friends, whose wife Tami (Kate Mara) just survived cancer. He becomes enamored by his cool new neighbor, Austin (Paul Rudd), a weatherman for the local news.

Craig wants to be part of Austin’s cool guy friend group and becomes obsessed with hanging out with the guys. But because he’s not a cool guy, he constantly tries way too hard and faces a lot of rejection for his strange behavior.

It’s actually a pretty solid commentary on how hard it is to make new friends as an adult, but because it’s Robinson, it’s also awkward, uncomfortable, bizarre, and hilarious. 

Much to my relief after the disappointment of Death of a Unicorn, Rudd is back to his charming self, basically giving us a modern-day Brain Fanana here. He’s just over-the-top enough with the cool guy persona to make it funny. We know a dude like that is practically catnip for an awkward guy like Craig, so it makes Craig’s quest to impress Austin feel justified within the narrative. 

Robinson is at his shouty, weirdo best here, often drawing huge laughs from throwaway lines delivered with perfection. During one tense moment, he declares, “I’m not scared of you, I bought a van today.” Another hilarious moment involves a toad and an order at Subway that had me gasping for air through laughter. Of course, the movie is also filled with his trademark “what the hell?” which he has made his own in the same way that Danny McBride perfected the word “daddy” in The Righteous Gemstones.

If you’re in that very-online category of people who like I Think You Should Leave and you enjoy Robinson’s brand of humor, Friendship will really hit for you, but if Robinson’s delivery is not your vibe, you’ll have a tough time with this movie because it relies so heavily on him doing what he does best.