And as this clip proves quite well, O’Connell excels at playing dudes who are a couple of shades dimmer than others around them, with Harley Carter serving as a splendid mix of schoolboy eagerness and stereotypical Hollywood naiveté.
I mean, this is a dude who really thought that airborne cinnamon would adhere to a safe’s keypad, revealing the numbers used for the code.
Not a lot of actors can pull off a moronic move like that so successfully.
Jerry O’Connell has plenty of dramatic roles in his past, but I think most of us would agree that he’s pretty perfect for just about every comedic role that has come his way.