Manages to capture the mix of murder and teen social observations, but misses three crucial elements: sharp dialogue, witty characters and the much-needed humor.
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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
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Reviews for Jawbreaker
It all looks great, but really...who cares?
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It's Heathers without the wry wit, Blackboard Jungle sans the fun, Very Bad Things with more ick.
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Not particularly funny or trenchant.
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Top CriticJawbreaker may promise a series of gleefully cheap thrills, but in the end all it delivers is a whole lot of bad taste.
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A darkly fun romp.
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The lowest piece of garbage to hit screens in months.
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Top CriticDoes an admirable job of further defining just how ruthless, superficial, symbolic and saccharine is that social and vocational training ground called high school.
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A synthetic yet shrill sadomasochistic cartoon!
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Top CriticThe worst movie I've seen in 1999.
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Too dark to be funny and plagued by abyss-sized holes in the plot, slavish dialogue and sketch-quality acting, Jawbreaker is a 15 minute idea stretched into a feature film.
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A slick production of a lame script!
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Top CriticA prettier but less witty retread of that Winona Ryder vehicle.
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Another teen-sploitation flick!
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It isn't as funny as it sounds. In fact, it isn't funny at all.
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Too derivative.
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This pathetic rip-off of that paragon of early nineties cult flicks is a tepid, turgid, disaster of a film that carries no substance with it whatsoever.
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