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NUMBERS
Box Office: $28,972,187
VHS Rentals: $5,040,000
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CONSENSUS
Incoherent, silly, and unoriginal, The New Guy offers up the same old teen gross-out comedy cliches.
CAST & CREW
DJ Qualls, Eddie Griffin, Eliza Dushku
Directed by Edward Decter
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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. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, sexual content, language, crude humor and mild drug references
RUNTIME
88 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: May 10, 2002
Video: Aug 13, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Columbia Pictures
GENRE
Comedies, Teenage, Teenage Fantasy Adventure, High School Experiences
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official The New Guy Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
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 "Teen movies have really hit the skids."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"An ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily told it feels accidental."
-- Robert Wilonsky, NEW TIMES
"A Meatballs for the bare-midriff generation."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy."
-- Scott Weinberg, DVD CLINIC
"Shouldn't have been allowed to use the word "new" in its title, because there's not an original character, siuation or joke in the entire movie."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"It made me want to wrench my eyes out of my head and toss them at the screen."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"Occasionally loud and offensive, but more often, it simply lulls you into a gentle waking coma."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
 "It's fairly self-aware in its dumbness."
-- Jim Slotek, JAM! MOVIES
"This is nothing but familiar territory."
-- Charles Savage, MIAMI HERALD
"It’s a bad thing when a movie has about as much substance as its end credits blooper reel."
-- Craig Roush, KINNOPIO'S MOVIE REVIEWS
"... the same tired old gags, modernized for the extreme sports generation. There's already been too many of these films..."
-- Kevin A. Ranson, MOVIECRYPT.COM
"Everyone connected to this movie seems to be part of an insider clique, which tends to breed formulaic films rather than fresh ones."
-- Sue Pierman, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"An often unfunny romp."
-- David Perry, CINEMA-SCENE.COM
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"Tries too hard to be funny in a way that's too loud, too goofy and too short of an attention span."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"More of the same old garbage Hollywood has been trying to pass off as acceptable teen entertainment for some time now."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"An incoherent jumble of tastelessness, stupidity, poor cinematic
takeoffs and cloying sweetness, all delivered with numbing
clumsiness."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Don't expect any subtlety from this latest entry in the increasingly threadbare gross-out comedy cycle."
-- Neil Smith, BBCI FILMS
"When the screenwriter responsible for one of the worst movies of one year directs an equally miserable film the following year, you'd have a hard time believing it was just coincidence."
-- Norm Schrager, FILMCRITIC.COM
"The film's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes ... drag the movie down."
-- Eli Sanders, SEATTLE TIMES
"Although it starts off so bad that you feel like running out screaming, it eventually works its way up to merely bad rather than painfully awful."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"The type of dumbed-down exercise in stereotypes that gives the [teen comedy] genre a bad name."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
"The only way to tolerate this insipid, brutally clueless film might be with a large dose of painkillers."
-- Michael Phillips, CITYSEARCH
"Yet another movie which presumes that high school social groups are at war, let alone conscious of each other's existence."
-- Mark Palermo, COAST (HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA)
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ROTTEN 16%
Avg. Rating: 3.7/10 |
"Bad beyond belief and ridiculous beyond description."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Would you laugh if a tuba-playing dwarf rolled down a hill in a trash can? Do you chuckle at the thought of an ancient librarian whacking a certain part of a man's body? If you answered yes, by all means enjoy The New Guy."
-- Rasmi Simhan, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"An unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"[L]ame and unnecessary."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"A loud, brash and mainly unfunny high school comedy."
-- Michael Rechtshaffen, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Every so often a movie comes along that confirms one's worse fears about civilization as we know it. The New Guy is one of them."
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"There's no getting around the fact that this is Revenge Of The Nerds Revisited -- again."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
"The New Guy does have a heart. Now, if it only had a brain."
-- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES
"Lame, haphazard teen comedy."
-- Carla Meyer, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"In The New Guy, even the bull gets recycled."
-- Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS
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"Written, flatly, by David Kendall and directed, barely, by There's Something About Mary co-writer Ed Decter."
-- Mark Olsen, L.A. WEEKLY
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