In what might be one of the few occasions in Rudd's career where his character was intended to be a total tool, he joined Seth Rogen in the massively overlooked DreamWorks film, "Monsters vs. Aliens." While Rogen was center stage as one-eyed wobbling world saver, B.O.B., Rudd took the mic as Derek Dietl, a career-obsessed weatherman and love interest to the film's leading hero, Susan Murphy aka Ginormica (Reese Witherspoon).
Sharing the characteristics somewhere between Gaston from "Beauty and the Beast" and the husband from "The Bee Movie," Dietl has his world rocked quite literally when his fiancee finds herself growing 50 feet into a destructive giantess. Sadly, it's something that Derek can't get past, and he calls off the wedding — only to try and get back in her good graces when Susan saves the day with her freakish friends. As far as Rudd's vocal work goes, this is certainly one of the smaller roles, but a great one from the star, and one he'd have no trouble managing given his news reporting expertise in "Anchorman."
