Review of Slackers (2002) by Leith R — 17 Oct 2011
I'm a bit shocked this isn't a cult classic. I get the critics panning it (though American Pie gets almost 60% to 10 here? How is that anything other than more generic and less witty than this movie? Oh, nevermind.) Maybe I'm just wrong.
It's subversive, casually raunchy, and there's an acapella version of I Saw the Sign in it. The main cast is great, Schartzman plays vainglorious creep perfectly, Segel gets to be much more caustic and less straight-man than in his TV career, and I can only assume this is why Jim Rash got his part on Community. The girls don't get a lot of good laughs, but then what's new with that.
It does have a lot of your standard college movie in it - guy wants girl, guy loses girl, guy gets girl - but the trimmings on that tree are fantastic; the throw-away lines alone (Europass?) make this movie stand out to me. The pacing is quick and the humor is rattled out like tickets on a ski-ball machine whether you cash them in or not. I can only assume most people don't.
Gotta uprate it to cancel out the haters.
This review of Slackers (2002) was written by Leith R on 17 Oct 2011.
Slackers has generally received negative reviews.
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