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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 7 Critics What's this?

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 6 Ratings

  • Summary: A high school superstar can't get past his glory days even though his life 8 years after graduation is anything but perfect.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 6 out of 7
  1. 63
    This is a slight and unessential picture, but its quirky, compassionate tone seems destined to attract a cult following, and members of high-school drama clubs everywhere will be riveted.
  2. Faced with the script's weak humor and feeble stabs at irony, Schwartzman and Stiller turn it way up, setting the dial at "hammy."
  3. Not so much character-driven as character-dragged--against its will.
  4. 33
    In a squandered lead performance, the adorable, winning Schwartzman plays the non-adorable, non-winning title character.

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