- Studio: Screen Gems
- Release Date: Feb 1, 2002
- Starring: Devon Sawa
- Summary: When geeky Ethan (Schwartzman) finds out that three college students are running a scam that gets them perfect grades without doing any homework, he blackmails one of them into helping him win the heart of Angela (King), the most popular girl on campus. (Sony)
- Director: Dewey Nicks
- Genre(s): Comedy, Romance
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 0 out of 28
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Mixed: 1 out of 28
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Negative: 27 out of 28
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50There are laughs here, but easily as many groans.
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38Before immediately handing the movie an F and sending it off to summer school, give the filmmakers, and especially co-star Jason Schwartzman, credit for their anarchic willingness to try anything to shock a laugh loose from an audience.
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38So patchy in its laughs, so calculated in its grossness and so lacking in genuine comic exuberance, it makes you look at "Road Trip" in an admiring new light.
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38Once again, we have a movie where the jokes are aimed at the least common denominator - meaning that to genuinely enjoy the experience of sitting through Slackers, you will need help from a controlled substance.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 22
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Mixed: 3 out of 22
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Negative: 5 out of 22
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EvA.10
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ChrisA.10
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