Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!
TeenzTen An action-packed slog
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Python Hyena The New Guy (2002): Dir: Ed Decter / Cast: DJ Qualls, Eddie Griffin, Eliza Dushku, Zooey Deschanel, Lyle Lovett: Comedy about transformation and by its conclusion viewers may wish that it took the form of a better film. DJ Qualls plays a school nerd who is bullied to the point that he attempts expulsion. Why he is sent to prison for this is beyond me but he is trained by Eddie Griffin in the art of intimidation. Now he is enrolled in a new school with a brand new outlook. He goes through the predictable clichés of gaining interest of the school slut and bully's girlfriend. Directed by Ed Decter with amusing references to Patton and Braveheart. Qualls does what he can with otherwise predictable material. We know that he will face his oppressors and conquer and none of it amounts to chalk board dust. Griffin narrates for reasons unclear. He will school Quall in the art of rebellion. Eliza Dushku plays the girlfriend with the personality of a paper bag. Zooey Deschanel also appears as one of Quall's friends who has "unnoticed girlfriend potential" written all over her. This is unfortunate since she is totally hot. Lyle Lovett makes a wasted appearance to remind us that his career is dying rapidly. Theme regards acceptance and fitting in as well as standing up for yourself, which everyone can relate too but the screenplay needed transformation to match and it fails to do so. Score: 5 ½ / 10
masters-cindy There are not a word I can drag out of my vocabulary that describe how awful this movie were, I think the correct word must still be invented I were to say ½ out of 10 I am giving this movie the biggest complement ever.Needless to say but this movie are bad and I mean really bad and with possibly the worst actor in the world in this movie it goes from bad to almost unwatchable in less than 15 minutes.Let met start with the biggest problem in this movie namely DJ Qualls .His acting abilities are horrendous. Nobody will ever belief person so strange looking if not ugly will every succeed in getting a girl like Eliza Dushku (except the people giving this horrid movie more than 2 stars) The plot It the same old story all the teen movies. A outcast Dizzy Harrison (DJ Qualls) get expelled from his school and some how lands in prison (didn't bother to give much attention to detail ) butPrison buddy luther (eddie griffin) teaches Dizzy the techniques of how to be popular He goes to his new school under the alias Gil Harris and are ever bodies hero thanks to luthers techniques and Danielle (Eliza Dushku )fall in love with him , but some one finds out about his real name and history of been a outcast and starts to threatens his repartition of been the hot new guy.A terrible movie,
Horror_Fan01 Skinny geek Dizzy, gets deliberately expelled so that he can reinvent himself at a new school as the coolest kid on the block In their attempts to plumb 'grosser-than-thou' depths, too many American teen comedies forget there's more to movie life than a succession of sick routines. The New Guy gets it partly right, slipping the gags into a proper, if clichéd, story and ensuring that the main characters are sweet, silly and - in that American Pie way - likable. Qualls is skinny geek Dizzy, who gets deliberately expelled so that he can reinvent himself at a new school as the coolest kid on the block. It works because he knows we know he knows it's a scam that's bound to come undone any moment. Throw in some love interest with Eliza Dushku, an eclectic mix of cameos (Vanilla Ice, Lyle Lovett, skateboarder Tony Hawk) and a 'you've just got to be yourself' message, and The New Guy scrapes a ing grade.Overall, Likable characters and a clichéd but meatier-than-usual story for a teen comedy. Definitely Worth A Rent!
ficie OK it's pretty obvious that this film is awful. In fact I only watched it because I mistook it for The New Guy 2003 The first real mistake of the film is the casting (I won't comment on Eddie Griffin, his name is enough of a trademark for bad films) -the so-called 'New Guy', DJ Quills, is a pretty bad choice under so many aspects. First of all, he is far too old for the part -which is pretty common, but what makes it much worse here is that this guy already looks ten years older than he actually is. Then, I have to say that even if I don't usually pay too much attention to this, here the lack of a decent script and anything anyway funny forced me to dwell on the protagonist's ugliness. This guy is far too abominably looking for any part!! How could he ever be believable in the role of the charming new guy?! The script doesn't help him either. The situations are recycled from whatever z-series American comedy, with easy jokes (people recorded while at the toilet) and tired stereotypes (cheerleaders, the jerk boyfriend, everyone in the high school behaving as a lobotomised mass). And where on earth could it be funny to see a super-skinny guy dressed as a general on a football pitch, throwing pseudo-quotes around?? More than that: do we really believe that that's going to make him popular in a high school?? The only actually funny parts were when the protagonist was being beaten up. They were trite and predictable, but at least that annoying skinny guy got what he deserved for a while. I have to it: I didn't manage to watch through the whole film, so I might have missed some even more awful parts. Sorry about that. But I tried to watch a few scenes here and there, to see where it was heading (Nowhere).
