The New Guy: Critic Reviews
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MovieWeb: 0 reviews
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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews
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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)50Qualls moves his marionette body around with a true clown's effervescence, and he does rubber-faced parodies of youth cool that are just what youth cool deserves.Full Review » 10 years ago
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Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)20Could the release of this dire film mark the moment at which we all fall spectacularly out of love with the American high-school teen comedy?Full Review » 10 years ago
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Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)10Every bad cliche of every bad high school movie finds a home here.Full Review » 10 years ago
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Ann Hornaday Washington Post (Top Critic)0A particularly loathsome piece of cultural detritus.Full Review » 10 years ago
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Renee Graham Boston Globe (Top Critic)25So wrongheaded that this one couldn't even have looked good on paper.Full Review » 10 years ago
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Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)25Bad beyond belief and ridiculous beyond description.Full Review » 10 years ago
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Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader (Top Critic)It isn't very good, but it doesn't seem to care, which turns out to be rather refreshing.Full Review » 5 years ago
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Robert Koehler Variety (Top Critic)Distinguished by certain rodent-like features, Qualls is a bargain-basement, pre-adult version of David Spade -- and becomes just as tiresome.Full Review » 4 years ago
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Nell Minow Common Sense Media20The New Guy is a waste of talent and time.Full Review » 1 year ago
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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed38I remember the good ol' days when comedies were actually funny and weren't used to display the hottest actors of the month and such.Full Review » 3 years ago
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Christopher Smith Bangor Daily News (Maine)17Joyless dreck, another dumbed-down teen comedy fired out of Hollywood with all the crudeness of a spitball.Full Review » 5 years ago
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Alan Morrison Empire Magazine60Likeable characters and a cliched but meatier-than-usual story for a teen comedy.Full Review » 5 years ago
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Time OutShot on low-res digital video, this cutprice tale of the unexpected is broadly predictable and increasingly one note, but passable sadistic fun.Full Review » 6 years ago
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Greg Maki Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)13No words can describe how truly awful this movie is.Full Review » 8 years ago
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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews38The New Guy's no worse than other teen recent teen-aimed flicks like Slackers, but that's not exactly a compliment.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Pablo Villaca Cinema em Cena40Algumas piadas sao muito boas, mas, de modo geral, o filme decepciona. Caso se mantivesse politicamente incorreto, seria melhor.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Tyler Hanley Palo Alto Weekly38Too little Griffin and too much toilet humor equals too bad for The New Guy.Full Review » 9 years ago
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John R. McEwen Film Quips Online40Mentioning plot holes or logical discrepancies would be almost redundant; this is a case where no critic's opinion will affect the film's failure.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Eleanor Ringel Gillespie Atlanta Journal-Constitution9Never gets on the good foot.Full Review » 10 years ago
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani UK Critic25Tries too hard to be funny in a way that's too loud, too goofy and too short of an attention span.Full Review » 10 years ago
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FilmFour.com[A] depressing exercise in lowest common denominator filmmaking.Full Review » 10 years ago
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Neil Smith BBC40Don't expect any subtlety from this latest entry in the increasingly threadbare gross-out comedy cycle.Full Review » 10 years ago
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Mark Palermo Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)Yet another movie which presumes that high school social groups are at war, let alone conscious of each other's existence.Full Review » 10 years ago
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Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall50This is one of those juvenile American comedies that's not quite sure what it wants to be: goofy farce, gross-out mayhem, sweet rom-com, what-I've-learned TV movie.Full Review » 10 years ago
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Walter Chaw Film Freak Central25What begins as a potentially subversive take on the inner-city school problem becomes the unlikely film that would be better with more Eddie Griffin.Full Review » 10 years ago
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