Admittedly, Masterminds is probably overlooked when it comes to Jared Hess‘s impressive oeuvre because it isn’t quite on par with the other projects he has undertaken. But since the release of his international hit film A Minecraft Movie, starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa, it has seen a resurgence on Paramount+ and is inside the streamer’s top ten movie list. Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig star in this movie based on the real-life 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery in North Carolina, but the ineptitude during the big heist shown by both, along with Owen Wilson, immediately reminded us of a less artful, poor man’s version of Wes Anderson‘s Bottle Rocket climactic heist sequence. You don’t need a crystal ball to see that this group of misfits’ attempt at robbing an armored car station isn’t going to end well. Hess, along with his wife and co-director, Jerusha Hess, is well known for taking on projects that elevate and feature larger-than-life fools who are blissfully unaware of their glaring-but-lovable inadequacies in movies like Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre, and the glorious cult classic indie filmGentlemen Broncos. Masterminds is more of the same oddball humor.