Kickin' It Old Skool: Critic Reviews

Kickin' It Old School is actually much more amusing than it has a right to be, considering that you know exactly what's coming.

Kickin' It Old Skool is probably as tolerable as it can be for a comedy with no obvious creative aim.

As appealing as acid-washed jeans.

About eight minutes of this comedy is devoted to some terrific breakdancing; the rest consists of wall-to-wall product placement and politically incorrect bad-taste comedy.

Kennedy is a negligible performer, a hopeless dancer, and his romantic connection to the lovely Menounos is preposterous even by the movie's absurd standards.

An inauspicious feature debut for director Harv Glazer and all three scenarists, the Big-meets-breakdancing comedy will be kickin' it to ancillary by swimsuit season.

A pathetically unfunny comedy that should have been shipped straight to video, if not recycled as guitar picks.

I hope Jamie Kennedy has a huge fan base because I can't see anyone else paying hard-earned money to sit through this.

High-concept comedy, bottom of the barrel execution.

The film itself seems lost in a time warp -- even its attitude toward the '80s is out of date considering the ongoing revival in music and fashion from that era.

The reunion of the multi-ethnic Funky Fresh Boys triggers a fusillade of un-PC misfires as the not-so-fab four try to alleviate their personal woes by entering an American Idol-esque dance-troupe contest.

I like Kennedy but he doesn't make it easy for me

Were the filmmakers really so wedded to every scene they couldn't find 15 minutes to cut? Besides, shouldn't we as a culture being moving on to depleting the comic potential of '90s nostalgia by now?

Kennedy's lowbrow comedy best for '80s veterans.

while Jamie Kennedy's character of Justin is supposed to be an 11-year-old in a 30-year-old's body, it seems he has suffered irreparable brain damage in his coma

If you were alive and watching TV during this decade, you'll find something to give you a smirk

There may be a lot of comedy potential in someone from the '80s waking up in the new millennium, but the writers of Kickin' It Old Skool are fairly oblivious to it.

Kickin' It Old Skool aspires to be Big with break dancing, but it falls flat on its spinning head. Even the break dancing gets tired fast, making the film even more tedious to get through.

Unfunny, unlikeable and unnecessary, "Kickin' It Old Skool" is one of the lamest so-called comedies to limp on to the screen in years.

Kennedy has gone from a somewhat promising young actor to a crowd repellent.

After cringing through Son of the Mask in 2005, I was convinced that trying to be funny could not get any worse for Jamie Kennedy. ... I was wrong that things couldn't get worse.

The funniest thing about Kickin' It Old Skool, yet another in a long line of not particularly funny Kennedy movies, is how little we actually have advanced since the '80s.

The writers make sure to fill their script with only the most obvious jokes and cultural references so that their star's particular comedic talents will shine brightest and he can work his magic without the risk of causing any audience members to think.

...a little of [Jamie Kennedy] goes a long way; a lot goes nowhere.

Kickin' It Old Skool equates making incalculable 80s pop culture references with joke telling.