Going with this title is about as original as calling the movie Animal Houses.
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08/22/02
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
Although not the best comedy in recent memory, it's not the worst either.
07/09/02
Asking serious questions about such movies usually is pointless, but how stupid do director Dewey Nicks and writer David H. Steinberg think women are?
06/21/02
There's nothing new or particularly memorable about it to make the effort stand out from the batch, but its up there with most efforts of the type.
06/13/02
Everything about this movie is horrible.
03/24/02
Devoid of any originality, Slackers is loud, crude and colorful, and is directed with a fit lack of subtlety by debut helmer.
02/23/02
...the movie's not even bright enough to at least see the potential of a sense of humor amidst all its meandering.
02/15/02
This is gross-out at it's lamest. Give it a pass.
02/14/02
The director's main tactic is to bring on nonsensical smut.
02/08/02
Nicks and Steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that's giving it the old college try.
02/05/02
One scene after another in this supposedly funny movie falls to the floor with a sickening thud.
02/05/02
Airs the same kind of randy, testosterone-fueled humor that has been a staple of comedies about college party guys since Animal House.
02/04/02
Revolting, despicable garbage.
02/04/02
There are a few laughs in Slackers but so many scenes worthy of grotesquely big groans, it's hard to give Slackers a recommendation.
02/04/02
[I]t may be the first movie ever targeted to John Hinkley, about the only person I can see as the target audience.
02/04/02
What rating do you give a film that's as vile as Freddy Got Fingered in some scenes and as funny as Rushmore in others?
02/04/02
This probably isn't the sort of thing I should admit in print, but I laughed until I was thoroughly ashamed of myself.
02/03/02
Watching Slackers is like listening to 2 Live Crew or watching Andrew Dice Clay
02/03/02
The title not only describes its main characters, but the lazy people behind the camera as well.
02/03/02
After 87 painfully unfunny minutes of Slackers, you'll be begging for the type of mercy that only comes with the start of the end credits.
02/02/02
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