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John Tucker Must Die

John Tucker Must Die (2006)

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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.

15

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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Average Rating: 3.6/5
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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)

PG-13, 1 hr. 29 min.

Drama, Comedy

Jeff Lowell

Nov 14, 2006

$40.9M

20th Century Fox

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Critic Reviews for John Tucker Must Die

All Critics (100) | 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.

July 29, 2006 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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John Tucker Must Die is trying to be Mean Girls with a more pointed purpose, but it's less fun than it sounds.

July 28, 2006 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comment
Claudia Puig
USA Today
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... a dreary female revenge timewaster that steals from so many and returns so little.

July 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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This one will probably appeal to its target audience, which is young enough not to have tired of watching cat fights and food fights.

July 28, 2006 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
Ruthe Stein
San Francisco Chronicle
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... a timid, screamingly unfunny rip-off of Heathers ...

July 28, 2006 Comment
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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... 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

July 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
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I didn't hate it. And I'm not even sorry to say that...

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Designed as an ultimate revenge fantasy "John Tucker Must Die" is a moderately funny teen comedy with a few flashes of bawdy humor.

April 22, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Sketchy high school revenge comedy.

July 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Cynthia Fuchs
Common Sense Media

Rarely has a title promised so much, and delivered so little. John Tucker Must Die is toothless, gormless, witless, and, worst of all, deathless.

June 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comments (2)
Anton Bitel
Film4 Source: Film4

A high-school revenge comedy that aims at a teen audience yet manages to be witty without being snarky or sophomoric.

February 7, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Frank Lovece
Film Journal International

A DVD to die for.

November 15, 2006 Comment
Staci Layne Wilson
Buzzine Magazine

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.

September 5, 2006 Comment
Mike Sage
Peterborough This Week Source: Peterborough This Week

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.

September 2, 2006 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
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Urban Cinefile

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

August 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | Comment
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

A load of formulaic nonsense that should still turn a few young heads thanks to its fantasy plot and Jesse Metcalfe's chest.

August 18, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

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.

August 17, 2006 Full Review Source: ViewLondon | Comment
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
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Not much to see here.

May 16, 2007
wildaly14
Wildaly M.

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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

September 18, 2011
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Alexander Diminiano

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