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The New Guy (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 87
Fresh: 6
Rotten:81
Average Rating: 3.1/10
Consensus: Incoherent, silly, and unoriginal, The New Guy offers up the same old teen gross-out comedy cliches.
Theatrical Release: May 10, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $28,972,187
Synopsis: THE NEW GUY is an energetic, sweet-natured comedy that gleefully discombobulates the unfortunate social class system that has plagued high schools since the beginning of time. Teenager Dizzy Harrison (DJ Qualls) is the laughing stock... [More]
Starring: DJ Qualls, Eddie Griffin, Eliza Dushku, Zooey Deschanel
Director: Edward Decter
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Reviews for The New Guy
Top Critic
Joyless dreck, another dumbed-down teen comedy fired out of Hollywood with all the crudeness of a spitball.
08/05/07
Top Critic It isn't very good, but it doesn't seem to care, which turns out to be rather refreshing.
03/06/07
Top Critic
Likeable characters and a cliched but meatier-than-usual story for a teen comedy.
12/30/06
Shot on low-res digital video, this cutprice tale of the unexpected is broadly predictable and increasingly one note, but passable sadistic fun.
01/26/06
The New Guy's no worse than other teen recent teen-aimed flicks like Slackers, but that's not exactly a compliment.
08/01/03
Algumas piadas são muito boas, mas, de modo geral, o filme decepciona. Caso se mantivesse politicamente incorreto, seria melhor.
07/25/03
Too little Griffin and too much toilet humor equals too bad for The New Guy.
05/20/03
Mentioning plot holes or logical discrepancies would be almost redundant; this is a case where no critic's opinion will affect the film's failure.
02/08/03
Top Critic Tries too hard to be funny in a way that's too loud, too goofy and too short of an attention span.
10/06/02
Could the release of this dire film mark the moment at which we all fall spectacularly out of love with the American high-school teen comedy?
10/02/02
Don't expect any subtlety from this latest entry in the increasingly threadbare gross-out comedy cycle.
09/09/02
Yet another movie which presumes that high school social groups are at war, let alone conscious of each other's existence.
08/23/02
What begins as a potentially subversive take on the inner-city school problem becomes the unlikely film that would be better with more Eddie Griffin.
08/22/02
This is one of those juvenile American comedies that's not quite sure what it wants to be: goofy farce, gross-out mayhem, sweet rom-com, what-I've-learned TV movie.
08/22/02
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