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82
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82
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81
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22
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16
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xx
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Underclassman
Miramax Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for violence, sexual references, drug material and some teen drinking
Starring
Nick Cannon,
Roselyn Sanchez,
Shawn Ashmore,
Angelo Spizzirri,
Hugh Bonneville,
Rob Bruner,
Ben Cotton,
and
Kaylee DeFer
LA's youngest cop Tre Stokes (Cannon) is about to get his biggest assignment: he must go undercover to break up a dangerous crime ring rooted in a upscale prep school. The deeper Tre goes the more dangerous and volatile the situation becomes. Fighting both his personal demons and the forces determined to take him down, he must risk everything to catch the ones closest to him. (Miramax)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
|
Comedy
|
Crime
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Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
David Wagner (also story)
Brent Goldberg (also story)
Nick Cannon (story)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Marcos Siega
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 17, 2006
Theatrical: September 2, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
100 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...
50
Washington Post
Teresa Wiltz
If you saw "21 Jump Street" back in the '80s, or any of a number of shows featuring cute and cuddly cops, you pretty much know where this flick is heading.
50
Film Threat
Stina Chyn
If you have nothing more stimulating to do on a Friday night, Underclassman could provide the entertainment--not enlightenment--you seek.
40
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Marcos Siega's direction is well-paced, but writers David T. Wagner and Brent Goldberg haven't brought anything sufficiently fresh or original to a formula plot to allow Underclassman to rise above the level of a mildly diverting video rental.
40
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Yes, it's really silly, and no, you won't remember a thing about it the second it's over, but adults looking for fast moving, non-violent fun that kids might actually enjoy could do a lot worse.
40
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
Some fairly standard shenanigans ensue, and when the clichéd high school culture clash stuff stops, there's clichéd cop movie stuff going on.
38
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
There's little that's special about Underclassman, certainly nothing that Murphy and Eddie Griffin haven't done better in movies far funnier than this.
38
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Utterly generic.
30
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Nick Cannon, playing an L.A. cop who goes undercover as a prep school student, provides the few sparks this wan action-comedy can muster.
30
Variety
Justin Chang
So far-fetched as to make "Kindergarten Cop" look comparatively austere.
25
Chicago Tribune
John Anderson
What's remarkable is how absolutely every character in the film is a movie cliche.
25
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Underclassman doesn't even try to be good. It knows that it doesn't have to be. It stars Nick Cannon, who has a popular MTV show, and it's a combo cop movie, romance, thriller and high school comedy. That makes the TV ads a slam dunk; they'll generate a Pavlovian response in viewers conditioned to react to their sales triggers (smartass young cop, basketball, sexy babes, fast cars, mockery of adults).
25
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The loserville teen comedy Underclassman is like a student project sloppily cribbed from other kids' notes -- kids who have seen "Rush Hour" and still can't get over how funny it is to stick a noisy black guy in a distinctly nonblack setting.
25
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
A remedial comedy for idiots.
25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The only hint of professionalism comes from Cheech Marin as Cannon's boss, who at times seems to be acting in a different movie.
25
USA Today
Mike Clark
That sound you hear is from jet engines gassing up, about to zoom Underclassman to DVD-ville.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Less an original product than a shoddy tribute to other mediocre cop movies.
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Grade Underclassman an "Unacceptable effort," and "D" for derivative.
20
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
The latest bit of damaged goods offered up in the Miramax clearance sale, Underclassman plays like the longest episode of "21 Jump Street" ever made.
20
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
Its star, who injected such life into the surprisingly unformulaic "Drumline," is adrift in a sea of cop-movie clichés, and Siega's party-to-go direction hews more closely to his music-video beginnings than to his critically noted "Pretty Persuasion."
20
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
Conceptually, Underclassman is the stillborn spawn of "Beverly Hills Cop" and "21 Jump Street." Except its star, Nick Cannon, possesses neither the biting cool of young Eddie Murphy nor the sullen mystery of Johnny Depp. And the script, by David T. Wagner and Brent Goldberg, is breathtakingly bad.
12
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Saved from total puff only by the obnoxiousness of its star, who seems to be laboring under the delusion that he's the next Eddie Murphy.
10
Village Voice
Nick Sylvester
British bliss czars, the doughnut-loving LAPD, and bitchin'-hot Spanish profs, no matter how many, how fat, or how bitchin' hot, can't make up for easy double entendres and zero character development.
10
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
Almost comically unambitious, Underclassman seldom tries to be funny, and never even attempts to be original.
0
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
Once in a great while -- usually late August -- a movie comes along that's so lame, it doesn't deserve a bad review. It deserves a war-crimes tribunal. Ladies and gentlemen, Underclassman is that special film.
0
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
The inconsistencies and continuity errors are staggering.
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