Be sure to take in an early show - you're going to need a long hot shower when it's over.
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02/01/02
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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.
Theatrical Release:Feb 1, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $4,814,244
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
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Reviews for Slackers
The often keen Schwartzman is simply disturbing here, and there's maybe one or two funny lines in the whole thing.
02/01/02
There are laughs here, but easily as many groans.
02/02/02
It's hard to find the laughs in a story about three cheaters fighting a pervert.
02/01/02
The director's main tactic is to bring on nonsensical smut.
02/08/02
I believe there are some tiny suggestions of hilarity to be found under all the clichéd nonsense.
02/02/02
It’s several good jokes, a whole lot of character development and some skilled direction away from crossing the line from moronic to crudely inspired.
07/19/07
Several good jokes, a whole lot of character development and some skilled direction away from crossing the line from moronic to crudely inspired.
01/30/02
Unlike Rushmore, Slackers sends subtlety and cleverness to the back of the class, while labored lunacy wears its dunce cap front row, center.
02/01/02
Top CriticA cynical mess that might make you want to take a shower as soon as you leave the theater.
01/31/02
Top CriticConsider the title's clunk-on-the-head that suggests the overtime someone put in to come up with an irritatingly unimaginative retread concept.
02/01/02
Feel bad for King, who's honestly trying, and Schwartzman, who's shot himself in the foot.
02/01/02
I can take infantile humor ... but this is the sort of infantile that makes you wonder about changing the director and writer's diapers.
02/01/02
Slackers' jokey approach to college education is disappointingly simplistic -- the film's biggest problem -- and there are no unforgettably stupid stunts or uproariously rude lines of dialogue to remember it by.
01/25/02
Top Critic...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
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
...should have been a lot better.
08/01/03
All in all, there's only one thing to root for: expulsion for everyone.
02/01/02
Top CriticAfter 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
Nicks refuses to let Slackers be seen as just another teen movie, which means he can be forgiven for frequently pandering to fans of the gross-out comedy.
01/30/02
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