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New Guy, The (2002) Rank 2 Reviews
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Empire Magazine (Alan Morrison)
Likeable characters and a cliched but meatier-than-usual story for a teen comedy. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at Empire Magazine (Alan Morrison)
New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
The New Guy does have a heart. Now, if it only had a brain. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
A Jekyll-and-Hyde teen comedy that sounds like a Pauly Shore reject, but Qualls 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. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
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Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
An occasional one-liner rises to the level of near-wit... Most everything else ranges from routine to heavy-handed. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
It makes little sense, fails as often as it succeeds, and yet is not hateful and is sometimes quite cheerfully original. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Todd Anthony)
How many times must we watch the same stale story about the high school loser who undergoes a miraculous transformation into Joe Cool? ...read the complete New Guy movie review at South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Todd Anthony)
Detroit Free Press (Terry Lawson)
In The New Guy , even the bull gets recycled. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at Detroit Free Press (Terry Lawson)
Snack Bar (Adam J. Hakari)
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MovieCrypt.com (Kevin A. Ranson)
... the same tired old gags, modernized for the extreme sports generation. There's already been too many of these films... ...read the complete New Guy movie review at MovieCrypt.com (Kevin A. Ranson)
Seattle Times (Eli Sanders)
The film's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes ... drag the movie down. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at Seattle Times (Eli Sanders)
Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Shouldn't have been allowed to use the word "new" in its title, because there's not an original character, siuation or joke in the entire movie. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Los Angeles Daily News (Glenn Whipp)
A Meatballs for the bare-midriff generation. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at Los Angeles Daily News (Glenn Whipp)
Empire Movies (Brendan Cullin)
New York Post (Jonathan Foreman)
Uneven but occasionally hilarious teen comedy. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at New York Post (Jonathan Foreman)
Detroit News (Susan Stark)
DVD Talk (Jeffrey Robinson)
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Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
DJ Qualls stars in "The New Guy" as a high school misfit who switches schools and gets a fresh start. At Rocky Creek, he was the target of cruel jokes almost daily (sample: being tied to a chair while wearing false breasts), but now, at Eastland High and ...read the complete New Guy movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
This 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. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
DVD Clinic (Scott Weinberg)
Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
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Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Ed Decter's first big break in the movie biz came as the co-writer for the original script of the Farrelly brothers film There's Something About Mary, and it seems like he's borrowed a page from them himself. The New Guy is little more than an amalgam of ...read the complete New Guy movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
DVD Clinic (Scott Weinberg)
Nothing more than four or five mild chuckles surrounded by 86 minutes of overly-familiar and poorly-constructed comedy. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at DVD Clinic (Scott Weinberg)
Jam! Movies (Jim Slotek)
It's fairly self-aware in its dumbness. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at Jam! Movies (Jim Slotek)
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Toronto Star (Geoff Pevere)
There's no getting around the fact that this is Revenge Of The Nerds Revisited -- again. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at Toronto Star (Geoff Pevere)
eFilmCritic.com (Oz)
It's far from cinema at its finest, and it never really bothers to aim higher than the groin, but did I mention Eliza Dushku tries on a variety of swimsuits? ...read the complete New Guy movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Oz)
The New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
A bad-taste comedy with a heart. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at The New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
The same old lame high school screen comedy garbage, rehashed for a new generation of suckers. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
It isn't very good, but it doesn’t seem to care, which turns out to be rather refreshing. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
The Onion (A.V. Club) (Nathan Rabin)
A comedy just funny enough to make viewers wish it were far funnier. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at The Onion (A.V. Club) (Nathan Rabin)
Las Vegas Mercury (Bob Grimm)
Qualls is a good performer, has a true sense of comic timing, and will hopefully appear in films of higher quality in the future. ...read the complete New Guy movie review at Las Vegas Mercury (Bob Grimm)
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