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John Tucker Must Die
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual content and language
Starring
Jesse Metcalfe,
Ashanti,
Brittany Snow,
Sophia Bush,
Arielle Kebbel,
and
Jenny McCarthy
Three teenagers two-timed by a local lothario decide to turn the tables on him in this romantic comedy. (Fox)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Jeff Lowell
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Betty Thomas
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 14, 2006
Theatrical: July 28, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
87 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
New York Post
Kyle Smith
A slumber-party classic that belongs on the same shelf as "Bring It On" and "10 Things I Hate About You." This high-school comedy should do for its 20-year-old star, Brittany Snow, what those movies did for Kirsten Dunst and Julia Stiles.

75
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
Surprisingly entertaining, if less than original.

70
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Betty Thomas, directing a script by TV veteran Jeff Lowell, seems uncertain whether to sympathize with her three heroines or with the title cad, but there's something mildly charming about this cheerful revenge comedy's lack of any straightforward moral agenda.

67
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
What it does have is the laughs.

63
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
A briskly-paced, refreshing kick in this season of draggy, two-hour-plus movies. The film is smarter and funnier than its trailers indicate, and, as a bonus, there are no superheroes, pirates or Wilson brothers to be found.

63
Premiere
Nick Taylor
Although mixing teen humor with sentiment will never be done as well as in "American Pie," John Tucker Must Die has just enough heart to entertain the "MySpace" set.

60
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
The performers are a bright bunch, especially Snow (even if she's no sane person’s idea of a wallflower), Metcalfe, who has the cocksure swagger of a young Travolta, and McCarthy, who infuses her few scenes with a haggard dignity masquerading as optimism.

50
Chicago Tribune
Jessica Reaves
Reasonably entertaining.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Revenge movies often end with the message that vengeance is empty and futile, but it's never encouraging when revenge seems pointless from the start.

50
The New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Penn Badgley is wildly charismatic in the role of John Tucker's younger brother. The entire picture could hang on his cheekbones alone.
If only Mr. Metcalfe shared his talents.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
The film lacks the nerve for any genuinely nasty fun or comic bite.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tirdad Derakhshani
Too cute by half, the high school comedy John Tucker Must Die is just so likable, so, um, cute - in that helpless-bunny-wabbit sort of way - that to diss it would be to admit being a heartless, cynical Bambi-killer.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Every woman falls for the wrong guy at least once in her life. This week, it's Betty Thomas' turn.

50
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
Getting worked up about John Tucker Must Die is a bit like getting worked up about the taste of flan.

50
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The movie starts out cleverly enough but grows insipid as the girls' antics become more predictable.

50
Variety
Justin Chang
Predictable developments are more or less redeemed by spirited execution and the pleasures of an able, good-looking cast.

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The movie is as inconsequentially pleasant as its star, and far nicer than the title lets on, too.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Something to see and occasionally even to laugh at.

40
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
John Tucker Must Die will undoubtedly fade into obscurity like so many silly and sentimental teen comedies before it.

40
Empire
Anna Smith
A load of formulaic nonsense that should still turn a few young heads thanks to its fantasy plot and Jesse Metcalfe's chest

40
Film Threat
Michael Ferraro
Its storyline is very predictable and cliché but teen girls will no doubt have a good time with this movie anyway.

40
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
But despite doing its best to jiggle, giggle and ogle its way into a niche somewhere between "Heathers" and "American Pie," it becomes just another forgettable pastiche of sight gags and pop-culture references.

40
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Lame and unconvincing teen comedy.

38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
John Tucker Must Die is toothless. The jokes are obvious and unfunny, the storyline goes nowhere that's interesting or unexpected, and the only chemistry happens in a science lab.

25
Entertainment Weekly
Gregory Kirschling
Astonishingly (and offensively), the witless ending comes down harder on the women than the cad.

10
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Whatever the target demographic was in the pre-production phase, now it's limited to sexually active 14-year-olds still retaking the sixth grade.

0
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Awful.


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