The Story
Wheeler (Scott) and Danny (Rudd) work for Minotaur Energy Drinks and travel from school to school in a souped-up truck trying to persuade teens to gulp Minotaur and stay off of drugs. Even hidden beneath a humongous Minotaur costume, you can tell Wheeler loves this job. But Danny…he's a different sort of beast. Danny's definitely not into spending the rest of his life peddling Minotaur to students as an alternative to illegal drugs, and he's depressed over the prospect that that's where he's heading if he doesn't make a job change.
Danny's black mood hangs over everything he does and everyone interacts with, particularly the live-in love of his life, Beth (Elizabeth Banks). And when he unceremoniously pops the question in the least romantic way possible, Beth - an attorney who could do much better - figures she's had enough of his lousy moods and packs up and leaves. Which, of course, plunges Danny into an even deeper funk. Acting out, he goes a little bonkers in front of a crowded high school auditorium, wrecks the truck, and gets thrown in jail for his outburst.
Although it wasn't Wheeler's doing, he and Danny are both sentenced to community service with the Sturdy Wings mentorship program run by an ex-addict who thinks her bullsh-t meter is infallible. Wheeler winds up paired with a foul-mouthed kid named Ronnie (Bobb'e J Thompson) whose ability to edit himself is as dysfunctional as Wheeler's. Danny gets to mentor Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), a live-action role-playing geek who dresses like a waiter at Medieval Times.
At first no one wants anything to do with their partner. But as Wheeler and Danny evolve from being forced into volunteering into actually connecting with the kids they've been assigned, they begin to really care about helping out their young Sturdy Wings partners.
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