Kylie Bunbury, from left, Lamorne Morris, Billy Magnussen, Sharon Horgan, Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams in "Game Night." (Warner Bros.)

Take a look at this picture above. It completely captures the elements that come together to make a film like Game Night work.  The young lady from Pitch.  The black guy from New Girl.  The "I think I've seen that dude in something" white guy.  That woman with that accent from that Amazon Prime show.  All these characters could have easily been fluff rounding out the necessary party for this game night disaster movie.  Instead, they each play up to the personalities you see in this promo shot: the black wife hiding something, the black dude who just found out his hot wife is hiding something, the stupid pretty dumb-dumb blonde guy, the Australian surrounded by dumb Americans, the loser husband, and his I-Yoga-Hard wife.

It's a pretty basic story.  Jason Bateman plays Max, who's having issues with his sperm count due to a dreaded game night with his nauseating, Return of Jesus Praised brother, Brooks.  Rachel McAdams plays Annie, his competitive wife, who sees the sibling rivalry as a challenge to her impregnation.  Brooks decides to host the weekly game night at his house but with a new game involving a fake orchestrated kidnapping mystery raising the stakes with an unbelievable prize.  Immediately crap goes to shit when real kidnappers hilariously abduct  Max's brother while everyone watches over chips and dip.  The group breaks up into couples looking for ways to cheat and soon discovers the kidnapping was real and their lives are in danger.

I can't stress enough how much these actors carry this film.  Rachel McAdams plays cute, innocent, supportive, and ditsy so well.  Jason Bateman plays Jason Bateman very Jason Bateman-ly.  Kylie Bunbury and Lamorne Morris play high-school sweethearts couple Kevin and Michelle spending the most of the film bickering over some secret celebrity Kylie did the nasty with year ago.  The reveal of the celebrity infidelity leads to one of the funniest flashback scenes ever in a film.  Billy Magnussen has a hard-on for Fight Clubs and a brain full of Doritos Bag Air.  Jeffrey Wright shows up for 5 minutes to lifelessly get kicked in his side.  And Sharon Horgan is the audience in Australian.