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Genres:
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Comedy /
Music
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Director:
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Ed Decter
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Actors:
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Parry Shen,
Lyle Lovett,
Ross Patterson,
Charlie O'Connell,
Matt Gogin,
DJ Qualls,
Eliza Dushku,
Zooey Deschanel,
Jerod Mixon,
Eddie Griffin,
Sunny Mabrey,
Horatio Sanz,
Tony Hawk,
Geoffrey Lewis,
Gene Simmons
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Duration:
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85 min.
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Rating:
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(5.4/10)87.5
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Plot Summary:
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Dizzy Harrison is an unpopular, high school geek active through a hellish elder year. In an essay to turn out to be a new identity for himself, Giddy gets himself expelled from his high school, learns the technics of being cool from a prison inhabitant, and enrolls at a new euphoric form beneath the alias Gil Harris, to insinuate late friends where he soon gains detail from the jocks and geeks akin. Dizzy then gets noticed by the avert cheerleader, Danielle, and helps the school football collaborate capture self-point to win games. But things unknowingly establish to turn impatient when Danie... lle's disgruntled boyfriend begins investigating into "Gil Harris'" past to uncover any dirt on him.
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New Guy, The
Hey, kids! We know it's close to finals and it's, like, the height of sadism to spring a pop quiz just before a May weekend. Bear with us. It's just one measly multiple-choice question.
The New Guy is:
(a) An argument for the abolition of high school.
(b) An argument for the abolition of high school movies.
(c) An apologia for high school losers.
(d) A backhanded insult to self-respecting geeks in all walks of life.
(e) All of the above.
Somewhere between (d) and (e), one could probably insert: "An unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years." Which can be the only rational explanation for making such a mess all over the screen.
As is customary with such end...
Ace Movie!
Def worth a watch! If you like funny American teen movies with jerk football players and hot cheerleaders picking on the poor geeks at the botom of the social ladder... this is definatly another one to see. A story about a kid that goes from zero to hero. Funny from start to finish.
New Guy, The
"...Qualls moves his marionette richness around with a true clown's effervescence, and he does rubber-faced parodies of kids uninvolved that are fair-minded what prepubescence cool deserves..."
New Guy, The
Roadtrip's DJ Qualls plays the nerd again in this tormenting teen comedy. Directed by There's Something relative to Mary co-gossip columnist Ed Decter, the film is a formulaic disorder of crass visual gags, falter dialogue and social stereotyping in the Scary Movie topsoil. Qualls plays drippy senior Dizzy, who reinvents himself as the synopsis of penetrating-devotees cool and, of course, gets the hottest girl (Eliza Dushku) with the aid of a swarthy prisoner with disposition. It's blatantly unfunny and infuriatingly prolix, underscoring its faults with a saccharine ending that patronisingly proclaims "it's OK to be an outcast". Decter works overtime to raise a laugh and give his job some teen kudos, littering the wafer-worthless plot with spavined moving picture parod...
New Guy, The
Those with retentive memories may recall Can't Buy Me Pet, a 1987 comedy starring Patrick Dempsey as a acute shape nerd who bribes a cheerleader to be his obsolescent and quit him much-needed street cred. Fifteen years later the same plot resurfaces in The Green Guy - but this time it takes a spell in prison to as though Dizzy (Qualls) the most popular take off at his new school having been the laughing everyday of his old anyone. Director Ed Decter, whose prime movie this is, made his select as inseparable of the writers on the Farrelly brothers' There's Something About Mary, so it's not surprising to put one's finger on that craftiness is in epigrammatic deliver here. Midgets are put in rot bins and rolled downhill; Lyle Lovett (playing Faint's dad) has his...
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