Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 22
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 15
This over-the-top comedy suffers from an exhaustive screenplay, which tries too hard to be funny...and fails.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 5
This over-the-top comedy suffers from an exhaustive screenplay, which tries too hard to be funny...and fails.
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Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 627
Can a young man win the hand of the girl of his dreams by convincing her that he prefers the company of men? That's the dilemma facing the protagonist of this independent comedy. Clay (Sam Huntington) was a big man on his high-school campus, but he discovers he's just another nobody when he starts his first year of college, and while he expected to be making time with lots of pretty coeds, most of the girls on campus could care less about him. As Clay hopes to improve his social status by
Aug 31, 2007 Wide
Aug 19, 2008
Regent Releasing
All Critics (22) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (15) | DVD (1)
John Goodman has a nice turn as a queen with a heart of gold.
...goes way over the top for the Greeks vs. Gays climax.
A campus comedy with a dirty mouth, an innocent heart and a surprisingly wise mind, Freshman Orientation uses identity politics as a road to romance and emotional maturity. The naked breasts are a bonus.
This trivial film toys with the postmodern lifestyles.
Freshman Orientation is not incompetently made. Nor is it badly acted. But there's not a fresh idea in it, and everyone on screen seems to be in a different comedy.
...too often feels more like a tapped-out keg than a provocative romp.
A genderbending teensploit turning on a clever twist of the genre's trademark theme. For while most makeover movies feature a female making herself more attractive, this flick has a male deliberately doing the opposite.
Admirably aiming to recreate the feelings of newfound freedom and self-discovery that college inspires, Freshman Orientation never finds a way to successfully execute its good intentions.
You enter expecting something really stupid, and you wind up with something really clever . . . hysterical . . . wise.
...might push boundaries better were it not so painfully unfunny.
The charms of this college gross-out comedy with a "message" are elusive.
Consider my two-star rating an indication that the film's Gut-Buster-to-Forehead-Slapper ratio is relatively even.
OK, it's official: I no longer care about 18 year olds.
Theatres showing it will likely have as many conspicuously empty seats as the classrooms and barrooms in this picture, which was apparently shot on such a shoestring that they couldn't even get enough extras to fill a set.
Freshman Orientation barely rates a passing grade.
A genderbending teensploit turning on a clever twist of the genre's trademark theme. For while most makeover movies feature a female making herself more attractive, this flick has a male deliberately doing the opposite.
Writer/director Ryan Shiraki certainly adds some youthful exuberance to his debut feature film, but it's all wasted on a tremendously misguided and exhaustively dim screenplay
There are other things to like about writer-director Ryan Shiraki's college comedy, mainly that it feels more real than most... Just one problem: It isn't particularly funny.
Cute little indie comedy. Nice relaxed performance by Sam Huntington.
April 15, 2010
Super Reviewer
This could be the next American Pie movie (and that hasn't been a compliment since the third one!).
December 11, 2008Super Reviewer
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