Could the release of this dire film mark the moment at which we all fall spectacularly out of love with the American high-school teen comedy?
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10/02/02
The New Guy (2002)
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Reviews Counted:91
Fresh:6
Rotten:85
Average Rating:3.1/10
Consensus: Incoherent, silly, and unoriginal, The New Guy offers up the same old teen gross-out comedy cliches.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Teenager Dizzy Harrison (DJ Qualls) is the laughing stock of Texas' Rocky Creek High School. But his loser status changes when he lands a prison sentence and falls under the tutelage of a wild... [More]
Starring: DJ Qualls, Eddie Griffin, Eliza Dushku, Zooey Deschanel
Director: Edward Decter
Reviews for The New Guy
Top CriticThis is one of those juvenile American comedies that's not quite sure what it wants to be: goofy farce, gross-out mayhem, sweet rom-com, what-I've-learned TV movie.
08/22/02
Likeable characters and a cliched but meatier-than-usual story for a teen comedy.
12/30/06
Top CriticDon't expect any subtlety from this latest entry in the increasingly threadbare gross-out comedy cycle.
09/09/02
Top CriticTries too hard to be funny in a way that's too loud, too goofy and too short of an attention span.
10/06/02
[A] depressing exercise in lowest common denominator filmmaking.
09/26/02
Top CriticShot on low-res digital video, this cutprice tale of the unexpected is broadly predictable and increasingly one note, but passable sadistic fun.
01/26/06
Top CriticHow many times must we watch the same stale story about the high school loser who undergoes a miraculous transformation into Joe Cool?
05/10/02
... so disconnected you have to wonder if pages were lost on the way to the set.
05/09/02
A very bad movie.
05/12/02
As soon as we've seen Qualls entire comical cool-jerk repertoire, the movie plum runs out of ideas and putters along on fumes until the closing credits.
05/08/02
I feel sorry for all of the people who will get suckered into sitting through this rancid mess this week.
05/11/02
Following the horde of teen parodies audiences have been subjected to in recent years, some of the humor appears recycled.
05/11/02
What begins as a potentially subversive take on the inner-city school problem becomes the unlikely film that would be better with more Eddie Griffin.
08/22/02
...registers very high on the stupid-movie scale.
05/07/02
plays like a series of unrelated scenes that were thrown into a blender with a broken puree button
05/08/02
For a jaunt into teen exploitation, The New Guy is as aggressively unfunny as they come.
05/12/02
It's harmless enough, but unless you fit into the target audience (the under-17 crowd), you might want to find something a little less juvenile and a lot more entertaining.
06/07/02
One sits there wondering if all the fizzled and obvious gross-out and slapstick gags are supposed to be funny.
05/17/02
OK, maybe I'm a snob who's seen too many foreign films, but, Dude, this flick is, like, so totally lame-o.
05/10/02
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