Slackers
Screen Gems | Release Date: February 1, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
12
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
1
Negative:
27
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
USA TodayMike Clark
There are laughs here, but easily as many groans. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Before immediately handing the movie an F and sending it off to summer school, give the filmmakers, and especially co-star Jason Schwartzman, credit for their anarchic willingness to try anything to shock a laugh loose from an audience. Read full review
38
New York PostJonathan Foreman
So patchy in its laughs, so calculated in its grossness and so lacking in genuine comic exuberance, it makes you look at "Road Trip" in an admiring new light. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Once again, we have a movie where the jokes are aimed at the least common denominator - meaning that to genuinely enjoy the experience of sitting through Slackers, you will need help from a controlled substance. Read full review
33
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
A disappointing venture. If only it had been more clever, perhaps darker. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The movie doesn't so much extend Schwartzman's antic outsider persona from ''Rushmore'' as uglify it, reducing him to the ultimate Uncool Anti-WASP. Read full review
30
Village VoiceMark Holcomb
The most that can be said for Slackers -- aside from the unqualified pleasure of Schwartzman's unfaked, puppyish weirdness -- is that it doesn't abandon its putrid ideals for the sake of a neat finish. Read full review
30
VarietyRobert Koehler
Awful and subversively spunky at the same time. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
A discordant comedy that gives bad taste a bad name. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Slackers depends on the pathetic Ethan and the flatulent Sam for most of its laughs, and both characters are more revolting than amusing. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
The roll call of perversions and adolescent sex gags are more creepy than kooky and the sudden shift to triumphant romantic sincerity at the climax rings as false as this film's sappy (sorry, happy) ending. Read full review
25
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
An odd little movie. And not in a good way.
25
Boston GlobeJonathan Perry
There's scant character development, pedestrian dialogue, and an almost complete lack of humor. Read full review
20
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The gags are familiar collegiate stuff, involving horny young men, horny old whores -- horny young tramps -- silly foreigners, uptight authority figures, homosexuals and sassy fat women. Read full review
20
Film ThreatMichael Dequina
The title not only describes its main characters, but the lazy people behind the camera as well. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
A standard issue undergrad gross-out comedy notable only for the showy role it provides Jason Schwartzman, well-remembered as "Rushmore's" geeky high school student Max Fischer. Read full review
20
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Schwartzman steals Slackers without much effort, but it's not worth the theft. Read full review
20
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Slackers is supposed to be a gross-out comedy, but the tastelessness of its jokes is nothing compared to its sheer cluelessness. Read full review
12
Chicago TribunePatrick Z. McGavin
Not only is Slackers painfully bad, but it's also about as morally unpleasant as a teen sex comedy can be. Read full review
12
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Slackers is, well, consummately cheesy. Ugh.
10
Washington PostDesson Thomson
How bad is it? Let me count just some of the ways. Read full review
10
The New York TimesStephen Holden
So lazy and slipshod it confuses the mere flashing of kinky soft-core imagery with naughty fun. Read full review
10
Rolling StonePeter Travers
A shit stain on the genre. Read full review
0
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A dirty movie. Not a sexy, erotic, steamy or even smutty movie, but a just plain dirty movie. It made me feel unclean, and I'm the guy who liked "There's Something About Mary" and both "American Pie" movies. Read full review
0
New Times (L.A.)Luke Y. Thompson
Alas, Slackers sucks. It's so bad Schwartzman can't save it, though he tries mightily; a flash of nudity from Pearl Harbor babe and male-named model-turned-actress James King isn't even worth the price of a video rental down the line. Read full review
0
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
Barely proficient on a craft level, this jumble of putatively comic misunderstanding and overly familiar crude burlesque achieves its nadir with a cameo from Mamie Van Doren, a degrading, shameful turn that lays bare, all too literally, the filmmakers' contempt for women. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarrit Ingman
A singularly distasteful campus romp. Read full review
0
Washington PostRita Kempley
Stinks like a cat box that hasn't been changed in a hundred years. Read full review
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