A fine cast is wasted here and the culprit is writing that lacks the scabrous wit and campy crackle needed to pull this homage off.
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01/01/00
Jawbreaker (1998)
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Reviews Counted:57
Fresh:4
Rotten:53
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: This throwaway comedy falls victim to its hip sensibilities.
Runtime: 87 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: In what seems to be a hybrid of classic teen flicks HEATHERS and CLUELESS, three of the most popular girls in school (Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart and Julie Benz) pretend to kidnap their friend... [More]
Starring: Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz, Judy Greer
Director: Darren Stein
Reviews for Jawbreaker
For all its posturing, and despite an odd cameo by McGowan's fiance, Marilyn Manson, Jawbreaker is missing anything resembling its own sensibility.
01/01/00
If you are up for a dark teen comedy, you could do much worse than Jawbreaker.
01/01/00
It's a tired lousy movie, a terrible twosome that deserves your heartfelt indifference.
11/06/02
Jawbreaker offers no new insights into teen hell.
01/01/00
There's no fluff like brash, jaded fluff!
01/01/00
Jawbreaker is the kind of film that makes you want to kidnap the director and lock him in a trunk, bound and gagged, so he doesn't make any more movies like this.
01/01/00
Desperately wants to be an edgy, ultra-hip black comedy along the lines of 'Heathers,' with the 'Grand Guignol' aspects of 'Carrie' thrown in for good measure. Unhappily, writer-director Darren Stein fatally lacks the requisite wit to bring it off.
01/01/00
Only the soundtrack (the Donnas, Imperial Teen) and the irrepressible McGowan make it fractionally more bearable.
11/07/02
Why sit through a lesser imitation, when you could just rent Heathers and those other movies for a far more enjoyable time?
01/01/00
Teenagers, as well as the rest of the audience, really don't need to insulted.
10/11/04
I’d rather suffer root canal that burden myself with another viewing of Jawbreaker, or as I call it: Battle of the High School Bimbo Bitches. Class dismissed!
01/01/00
More stylish than 'Heathers,' but not nearly as witty or engaging.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe most unfortunate thing about Jawbreaker has to be its blatant imitation of 1989's vastly superior Heathers.
06/05/02
Leaves a bad aftertaste.
01/01/00
The humour is weak and its black, VERY black giving it a limited appeal.
01/15/08
I’d just as soon have my jaw broken than to sit through this one again.
01/01/00
Tasteless!
01/01/00
Unoriginal. Not particularly funny.
01/01/00
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