The film is of little use to anyone except casting directors, fixed on selling a performer rather than telling a story.
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09/02/05
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Underclassman (2005)
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Reviews Counted:77
Fresh:6
Rotten:71
Average Rating:2.8/10
Consensus: Despite the appealing presence of Nick Cannon, Underclassman is a shopworn Beverly Hills Cop/ 21 Jump Street knockoff.
Theatrical Release:Sep 2, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $5,567,645
Synopsis: Nick Cannon plays Tracy "Tre" Stokes, a streetwise LA cop in 'Underclassman' which combines frenetic action with sharp-eared comedy. When a student at an elite private school gets murdered, the... [More]
Starring: Nick Cannon, Roselyn Sanchez, Shawn Ashmore, Cheech Marin
Director: Marcos Siega
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Reviews for Underclassman
Top CriticThis feeble Beverly Hills Cop knockoff will give audiences burned repeatedly by crummy movies this summer yet another reason to avoid multiplexes for the Labor Day weekend.
09/02/05
Top CriticA cop/teen movie so derivative it could have been written by a computer. Without human assistance.
09/02/05
Lots of talent, all of it pretty well wasted here.
09/02/05
It's off to detention for Underclassman, a remedial comedy for idiots.
09/02/05
Top CriticTo paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen's now-infamous diss of fellow vice-presidential candidate Dan Quayle in 1988: We know Eddie Murphy. Nick Cannon, you're no Eddie Murphy.
09/02/05
Underclassman is squarely aimed at a teen audience, but will be best appreciated by those who have never seen a TV cop show or, better yet, never attended school.
09/02/05
It gets a failing grade even by the low standards of late-August Hollywood releases.
09/02/05
Top CriticThanks to his charm and wit, Cannon's character eventually finds himself in with the school's in crowd, but his movie runs out of fresh ideas in the first 15 of its 95 minutes.
09/02/05
Top CriticWithin that worn formula of cop-shop banter and implausible car chases, lanky Nick Cannon offers some mild entertainment for teenagers looking for a safe bet at the multiplex.
09/02/05
Underclassman flunks out.
09/02/05
Let me float the suggestion that it be rated PG-13-only, since anyone older than that will quickly realize he or she has better things to do than attend this pitiful Beverly Hills Cop retread.
09/02/05
It’s got every cliché in it and doesn’t even really explore its premise,but it’s so much fun you really don’t care...I like formula.There’s nothing wrong with genres we love.
09/02/05
It's not the frequency of action-buddy-cop movie clichés that kills Underclassman. It's the [filmmakers’] laziness ... and contempt.
09/02/05
First off, it's never good when Cheech Marin is in a movie and it's not about weed.
09/02/05
To the person who once told Cannon he was funny, I wish I could jump into my DeLorean, travel back in time, and administer some Irish kisses to this individual.
09/02/05
The murder plot is far less important here than the film's intention to sell audiences a hot young star who can charmingly mug his way through a movie.
09/02/05
As fate would have it, I forgot to bring my Cop Movie Cliché bingo card to the screening. It's a shame, because I know I'd have won.
09/01/05
Nick Cannon desperately wants to be Eddie Murphy, but doesn't have the script or depth to make it happen.
09/01/05
Nick Cannon isn't nearly as funny as he thinks he is
09/01/05
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