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NUMBERS
Box Office: $4,814,244
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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.
CAST & CREW
Jason Schwartzman, Jamie King, Jason Segel
Directed by Dewey Nicks
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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. more...
MPAA RATING
R, strong language and sexual content, and brief drug use
RUNTIME
86 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Feb 1, 2002
Video: May 28, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Screen Gems
GENRE
Comedies, Teenage, Teenage Fantasy Adventure, Teenage Girls
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Slackers Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "The filmmakers lack the nerve ... to fully exploit the script's potential for sick humor."
-- Todd Anthony, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"...the film falls back on the same old formula of teen sex, outrageous pranks and scenes designed to push the envelope of bad taste for laughs."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"This will go on so long as there are moviegoers anxious to see strange young guys doing strange guy things."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"So putrid it is not worth the price of the match that should be used to burn every print of the film."
-- Rick Bentley, FRESNO BEE
"The sheer dumbness of the plot (other than its one good idea) and the movie's inescapable air of sleaziness get you down."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Just one more collection of penis, breast and flatulence gags in search of a story. Or a profit. Or some damn thing."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"It's too interested in jerking off in all its Byzantine incarnations to bother pleasuring its audience."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"Schwartzman's intensely creepy character is more likely
to elicit ill will than entertainment
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-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"Calculated swill."
-- Manohla Dargis, L.A. WEEKLY
"[The film's] taste for "shock humor" will wear thin on all but those weaned on the comedy of Tom Green and the Farrelly Brothers."
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES
"Feel bad for King, who's honestly trying, and Schwartzman, who's shot himself in the foot."
-- Dan Fazio, CITYSEARCH
"A tired, unimaginative and derivative variation of that already-shallow genre."
-- Jack Garner, ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE
"You really have to wonder how on earth anyone, anywhere could have thought they'd make audiences guffaw with a script as utterly diabolical as this."
-- Tom Grealis, RTE INTERACTIVE (DUBLIN, IRELAND)
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"How about starting with a more original story instead of just slapping extreme humor and gross-out gags on top of the same old crap?"
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
 "The unique tug-of-war with viewer expectations is undeniable, if not a pleasure in its own right."
-- Kevin John Bozelka, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"One scene after another in this supposedly funny movie falls to the floor with a sickening thud."
-- Gary Brown, HOUSTON COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
"Don't waste your money."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"I won’t argue with anyone who calls 'Slackers' dumb, insulting, or childish... but I laughed so much that I didn’t mind."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"The title not only describes its main characters, but the lazy people behind the camera as well."
-- Michael Dequina, MR. BROWN'S MOVIES
"It turns out to be a cut above the norm, thanks to some clever writing and sprightly acting."
-- Stephen Farber, MOVIELINE
"Consider the title's clunk-on-the-head that suggests the overtime someone put in to come up with an irritatingly unimaginative retread concept."
-- Cynthia Fuchs, POPMATTERS
"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."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Nicks sustains the level of exaggerated, stylized humor throughout by taking your expectations and twisting them just a bit."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
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ROTTEN 0%
Avg. Rating: 2.1/10 |
"Nicks, seemingly uncertain what's going to make people laugh, runs the gamut from stale parody to raunchy sex gags to formula romantic comedy."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"It made me feel unclean, and I'm the guy who liked There's Something About Mary and both American Pie movies. Oh, and Booty Call."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Slack and uninspired, and peopled mainly by characters so unsympathetic that you're left with a sour taste in your mouth."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"Stay away. Far away."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"Sinks into the usual cafeteria goulash of fart jokes, masturbation jokes, and racist Japanese jokes."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Nicks and Steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that's giving it the old college try."
-- Mark Holcomb, VILLAGE VOICE
"So lazy and slipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"All in all, there's only one thing to root for: expulsion for everyone."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
"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."
-- David Hunter, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Although no pastry is violated, this nasty comedy pokes fun at the same easy targets as other rowdy raunch-fests -- farts, boobs, unmentionables -- without much success."
-- Rita Kempley, WASHINGTON POST
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"It's difficult to conceive of anyone who has reached puberty actually finding the characters in Slackers or their antics amusing, let alone funny."
-- Louis B. Hobson, JAM! MOVIES
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Slackers" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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