Slackers 2002

Critics score:
10 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Jonathan Perry, Boston Globe: There's scant character development, pedestrian dialogue, and an almost complete lack of humor. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: A tired, tasteless, unfunny teen movie. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [I]t may be the first movie ever targeted to John Hinkley, about the only person I can see as the target audience. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: A cynical mess that might make you want to take a shower as soon as you leave the theater. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: So lazy and slipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: It's not even another teen movie. Its shamelessness is in a class by itself. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: The whole thing feels completely disposable -- headed for the shower drain of comedy, as it were. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Stay away. Far away. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Dave and his pals are so sleazy and shallow and take up so much screen time that Slackers is a turnoff despite Schwartzman's considerable efforts. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Unlike Rushmore, Slackers sends subtlety and cleverness to the back of the class, while labored lunacy wears its dunce cap front row, center. Read more

Paul Tatara, CNN.com: The footage seems to have been tossed into the air and randomly reassembled when it hit the ground. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Sinks into the usual cafeteria goulash of fart jokes, masturbation jokes, and racist Japanese jokes. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: There really is no good excuse for Slackers. Read more

Manohla Dargis, L.A. Weekly: Calculated swill. Read more

Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune: Not only is Slackers painfully bad, but it's also about as morally unpleasant as a teen sex comedy can be. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Nicks, seemingly uncertain what's going to make people laugh, runs the gamut from stale parody to raunchy sex gags to formula romantic comedy. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: 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. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The tastelessness of its jokes is nothing compared to its sheer cluelessness. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: A discordant comedy that gives bad taste a bad name. Read more

Toronto Star: It's hard to find the laughs in a story about three cheaters fighting a pervert. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: If it's unlikely to stimulate the brain cells, it will almost certainly make you laugh out loud. Read more

USA Today: There are laughs here, but easily as many groans. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: This debut for helmer and vid vet Dewey Nicks and scribe David H. Steinberg, a feverishly naughty revenge comedy, is awful and subversively spunky at the same time. Read more

Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: Nicks and Steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that's giving it the old college try. Read more