Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 92
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 69
This derivitive teen comedy tries to go for cute when it could use more bite.
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 22
This derivitive teen comedy tries to go for cute when it could use more bite.
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Three teenagers two-timed by a local lothario decide to turn the tables on him in this romantic comedy. John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) is the big man on campus at his high school -- he's the captain and star player of the basketball team, he's got money, he's good-looking and charming, and he can have any girl he wants. However, the latter attribute is about to get him in serious trouble when three different girls at his school -- Heather (Ashanti), Beth (Sophia Bush) and Carrie (Arielle Kebbel)
Jul 28, 2006 Wide
Nov 14, 2006
$40.9M
20th Century Fox
All Critics (99) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (71) | DVD (18)
The jokes are obvious and unfunny, the storyline goes nowhere that's interesting or unexpected, and the only chemistry happens in a science lab.
John Tucker Must Die is trying to be Mean Girls with a more pointed purpose, but it's less fun than it sounds.
... a dreary female revenge timewaster that steals from so many and returns so little.
This one will probably appeal to its target audience, which is young enough not to have tired of watching cat fights and food fights.
... a timid, screamingly unfunny rip-off of Heathers ...
... the movie loses its meanness in its last third, a cop-out that robs it of the reason for making it and giving it such a nasty title
I didn't hate it. And I'm not even sorry to say that...
Designed as an ultimate revenge fantasy "John Tucker Must Die" is a moderately funny teen comedy with a few flashes of bawdy humor.
Sketchy high school revenge comedy.
Rarely has a title promised so much, and delivered so little. John Tucker Must Die is toothless, gormless, witless, and, worst of all, deathless.
A high-school revenge comedy that aims at a teen audience yet manages to be witty without being snarky or sophomoric.
A DVD to die for.
Betty Thomas's sloppy storytelling and comic incompetence can be forgiven but to portray young women as flighty airheads obsessed with boys over all else is downright offensive.
Buoyed by its good looking cast and entertaining script, John Tucker Must Die is witty and funny, as it reminds us that it is cool to be yourself - whoever you are.
Had it mined edgier territory and stuck to its guns, it would've proven a more engaging vehicle than the mild laugher we have here
A load of formulaic nonsense that should still turn a few young heads thanks to its fantasy plot and Jesse Metcalfe's chest.
Not quite in the league of Mean Girls but this is still an enjoyably silly teen revenge comedy with strong performances and a witty, likeable script.
Not the worst of its kind, but few over the age of 14 will find it worth forking out for.
There are three aspects to a comedy that should immediately tell you it's something terrible: 1. It's unrealistic. 2. Laughing takes effort. 3. By the ending, you are convinced you have psychic abilities because you predicted the way the film would close within the first five minutes. Alongside all the terrible
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