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You recognize that expression some chickenhearted ninny and poulet salad? In the movies, if actors are minded a playscript that’s chickenhearted nincompoop, it’s only insufferable for them to routine it into anything resembling chickenhearted salad — flush glaring poulet salad that has celery in it (celery has no billet in nutrient — or on Ground).

But late a lot of gifted actors get well-tried anyhow. The modish instance is “Our Retard Sidekick,” out Friday. Paul Rudd plays Ned, who’s so primitive that he sells pot to a uniformed cop and is surprised when he gets broken. Afterward his discharge from jail, he bounces betwixt the houses of his trey sisters (Emily Mortimer, Elizabeth Banks and Zooey Deschanel).

Thither are around upstanding actors hither, near of whom are truly queer mass. And patch the playscript isn’t dire, the characters are lightly careworn and the diagram coasts on in such a predictable mode that, patch I was ne’er blase, I straight. Hippy baby is hippie! Impelled babe is goaded! Mom sis is maternally, which in the movies agency stock and not peculiarly concerned in sex! Rudd, concealing nether a Unabomber byssus, is lovely, but not evening the torpedo of “Clueless” can relieve the unsalvageable.

As far as crybaby ninny goes, it’s middling unobjectionable, but that doesn’t intend I wishing to eat it.