Critic Reviews
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TV Guide
Some of the humor is pretty raunchy (there are quite a few sex-related scenes and jokes) and tasteless. Adults old enough to appreciate the choice electro-boogaloo soundtrack and get the "Mr. Roboto" jokes will doubtless find the rest of it painfully dumb.
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| 42 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
For a film that has nothing to offer but lazy '80s nostalgia, Kickin' It Old Skool doesn't even bother to get the details right.
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The New York Times
A romantic subplot is formulaic, and, most disappointing, the break-dance sequences don't sizzle, though the film's director, Harvey Glazer, is known for his music videos. Keep an eye out, however, for some nutty cameos.
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| 38 |
Boston Globe
Probably as tolerable as it can be for a comedy with no obvious creative aim. You can imagine the crew cracking up on some outtake reel, which honestly is what this movie feels like.
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Variety
An inauspicious feature debut for director Harv Glazer and all three scenarists, the "Big"-meets-breakdancing comedy will be kickin' it to ancillary by swimsuit season.
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ReelViews
The ineptitude of the movie's drama is matched only by the failure of its humor.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A very stupid movie, with many more failed jokes than successful ones. Worse yet, much of the comedy is kind of mean.
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Chicago Reader
About eight minutes of this comedy is devoted to some terrific breakdancing; the rest consists of wall-to-wall product placement and politically incorrect bad-taste comedy.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Fails to live up to even the feeble potential of its premise.
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New York Daily News
As appealing as acid-washed jeans, Kickin' It Old Skool exists solely to provide employment for aggressively abrasive comic actor Jamie Kennedy.
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| 10 |
Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen
A witless, mind-numbingly inert comedy.
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| 10 |
LA Weekly
Jim Ridley
This ostensible comedy may be a new depths-of-hell low in the Emmanuel Lewis filmography, but for star Jamie Kennedy it’s par for the coarse.
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New York Post
A pathetically unfunny comedy that should have been shipped straight to video, if not recycled as guitar picks.
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Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
Kennedy’s humor comes from the broad, brainless, lowest-common-denominator school (in other words, he was born to play a grown man with the intelligence of an boy).
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