| 50 |
USA Today
There are laughs here, but easily as many groans.
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| 38 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Before 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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| 38 |
New York Post
So 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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| 38 |
ReelViews
Once 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.
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| 33 |
Portland Oregonian
A disappointing venture. If only it had been more clever, perhaps darker.
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| 33 |
Entertainment Weekly
The movie doesn't so much extend Schwartzman's antic outsider persona from ''Rushmore'' as uglify it, reducing him to the ultimate Uncool Anti-WASP.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
The most that can be said for Slackers -- aside from the unqualified pleasure of Schwartzman's unfaked, puppyish weirdness -- is that it doesn't abandon its putrid ideals for the sake of a neat finish.
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| 30 |
Variety
Awful and subversively spunky at the same time.
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| 25 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The roll call of perversions and adolescent sex gags are more creepy than kooky and the sudden shift to triumphant romantic sincerity at the climax rings as false as this film's sappy (sorry, happy) ending.
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| 25 |
New York Daily News
Slackers depends on the pathetic Ethan and the flatulent Sam for most of its laughs, and both characters are more revolting than amusing.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A discordant comedy that gives bad taste a bad name.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
An odd little movie. And not in a good way.
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| 25 |
Boston Globe
Jonathan Perry
There's scant character development, pedestrian dialogue, and an almost complete lack of humor.
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| 20 |
Salon.com
Slackers is supposed to be a gross-out comedy, but the tastelessness of its jokes is nothing compared to its sheer cluelessness.
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| 20 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Schwartzman steals Slackers without much effort, but it's not worth the theft.
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| 20 |
Film Threat
The title not only describes its main characters, but the lazy people behind the camera as well.
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| 20 |
TV Guide
The gags are familiar collegiate stuff, involving horny young men, horny old whores -- horny young tramps -- silly foreigners, uptight authority figures, homosexuals and sassy fat women.
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| 20 |
Los Angeles Times
A standard issue undergrad gross-out comedy notable only for the showy role it provides Jason Schwartzman, well-remembered as "Rushmore's" geeky high school student Max Fischer.
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| 12 |
Chicago Tribune
Patrick Z. McGavin
Not only is Slackers painfully bad, but it's also about as morally unpleasant as a teen sex comedy can be.
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| 12 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Slackers is, well, consummately cheesy. Ugh.
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| 10 |
Rolling Stone
A shit stain on the genre.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
How bad is it? Let me count just some of the ways.
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| 10 |
The New York Times
So lazy and slipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun.
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| 0 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A dirty movie. Not a sexy, erotic, steamy or even smutty movie, but a just plain dirty movie. It made me feel unclean, and I'm the guy who liked "There's Something About Mary" and both "American Pie" movies.
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| 0 |
LA Weekly
Barely proficient on a craft level, this jumble of putatively comic misunderstanding and overly familiar crude burlesque achieves its nadir with a cameo from Mamie Van Doren, a degrading, shameful turn that lays bare, all too literally, the filmmakers' contempt for women.
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| 0 |
Austin Chronicle
A singularly distasteful campus romp.
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| 0 |
New Times (L.A.)
Alas, Slackers sucks. It's so bad Schwartzman can't save it, though he tries mightily; a flash of nudity from Pearl Harbor babe and male-named model-turned-actress James King isn't even worth the price of a video rental down the line.
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| 0 |
Washington Post
Stinks like a cat box that hasn't been changed in a hundred years.
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