Not so much a movie as an unpleasant presence that sits on the screen.
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05/14/02
Slackers (2002)
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Reviews Counted:104
Fresh:10
Rotten:94
Average Rating:3.1/10
Consensus: Another teen comedy with little on its mind but moving to the next gross-out gag, Slackers strains for laughs and features grating characters.
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Dave (Devon Sawa), Sam (Jason Segel) and Jeff (Michael C. Maronna) are about to graduate from Holden University with Honors in lying, cheating and scheming. The three roommates have proudly scammed... [More]
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Jamie King, Jason Segel, Michael C. Maronna
Director: Dewey Nicks
Reviews for Slackers
It’s elevated into watchability thanks to the presence of Jason Schwartzman and some inspired off-the-wall moments amongst the smutty gags.
10/30/02
This bafflingly uninteresting, unfunny movie is very much not to be compared with superior films like Richard Linklater's Slacker or Kevin Smith's Clerks.
05/26/02
Top CriticWhen Sawa and King take centre stage, interest drops.
05/06/02
Top CriticIf it's unlikely to stimulate the brain cells, it will almost certainly make you laugh out loud.
02/09/06
Top CriticThis is not your average low-brow university comedy; these filmmakers have a much more twisted sense of humour, pulling laughs from the most surprising places to liven up what is essentially just a sweet romance.
08/12/02
Be sure to take in an early show - you're going to need a long hot shower when it's over.
02/01/02
The often keen Schwartzman is simply disturbing here, and there's maybe one or two funny lines in the whole thing.
02/01/02
It's hard to find the laughs in a story about three cheaters fighting a pervert.
02/01/02
There are laughs here, but easily as many groans.
02/02/02
The director's main tactic is to bring on nonsensical smut.
02/08/02
I believe there are some tiny suggestions of hilarity to be found under all the clichéd nonsense.
02/02/02
Several good jokes, a whole lot of character development and some skilled direction away from crossing the line from moronic to crudely inspired.
01/30/02
It’s several good jokes, a whole lot of character development and some skilled direction away from crossing the line from moronic to crudely inspired.
07/19/07
Unlike Rushmore, Slackers sends subtlety and cleverness to the back of the class, while labored lunacy wears its dunce cap front row, center.
02/01/02
A cynical mess that might make you want to take a shower as soon as you leave the theater.
01/31/02
Consider the title's clunk-on-the-head that suggests the overtime someone put in to come up with an irritatingly unimaginative retread concept.
02/01/02
Feel bad for King, who's honestly trying, and Schwartzman, who's shot himself in the foot.
02/01/02
I can take infantile humor ... but this is the sort of infantile that makes you wonder about changing the director and writer's diapers.
02/01/02
Slackers' jokey approach to college education is disappointingly simplistic -- the film's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude lines of dialogue to remember it by.
01/25/02
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