Metacritic Film

Sasquatch Gang, The

Starring Justin Long, Joey Kern, Jeremy Sumpter, and Jon Gries

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude humor and language

Screen Media Films
Comedy
84 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters November 30, 2007

Breeding chameleons for profit, medieval sword-fighting, and mythic beasts are just some of the elements that make up the Sasquatch Gang. A group of young friends of varying ages, led by a nerd named Gavin, find some large footprints in the woods. It can only be one thing: Bigfoot! OR so they assume. The find leads them down a path of betrayal, young love, and clashes with bullies and non-believers alike. (Screen Media Films)

WRITTEN BY
Tim Skousen

DIRECTED BY
Tim Skousen

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

57 / 100

Critic Reviews

100 Film Threat Sally Foster
Blends classic elements of fantasy, teen-angst and coming-of-age tales to create a genre all its own. And through it all, the movie is undeniably wholesome.
63 TV Guide
Beautifully encapsulates the film's sensibility, a bizarre mix of reverse cool and childishness.
50 The Hollywood Reporter
Very much reminiscent of "Napoleon" in numerous ways only minus the wit, the film is made somewhat palatable by its inherent sweetness and its treatment of typical adolescent angst.
50 LA Weekly Luke Y. Thompson
Gavin’s story is typical teen-faces-bullies-and-gets-girl hokum, while Zerk is like a Mike Judge cartoon character come to life, with a revelatory slapstick performance from the often straight-laced Long.
40 The New York Times
There’s precious little to laugh at in The Sasquatch Gang, a sad attempt to board the loser-nerd comedy bandwagon.

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