By Ryan Parsons | Image property of The Weinstein Company.
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Though the trailers and clips for School for Scoundrels look absolutely hilarious, the recent set of reviews to appear online claim otherwise.
School for Scoundrels Reviews
I don't know how School for Scoundrels could have missed as far as it did, but so far we have only seen early reviews that do not like this comedy teaming Thornton and Heder.
Slant Magazine
With Frat House, Road Trip, Old School, and now School for Scoundrels to his name, Todd Phillips seems incapable of escaping youthful educational environs, a notion that goes hand in hand with his generally juvenile sense of humor and rudimentary, slapdash skills behind the camera.
It's a premise with next to no payoff, since Phillips and co-screenwriter Scot Armstrong fail to create characters who are more than one-trait punchlines for limp gags, and regularly fall back on unimaginative scenarios and desperate crotch shots for laughs.
Emanuel Levy
Writer-director Todd Phillips is quickly becoming our national expert of educational systems and college comedies, what with "Frat House," "Road Trip," "Old School," and now "School for Scoundrels," which arguably is the weakest and least funny of the cycle.
Phillips and Armstrong have created one-dimensional, incoherent characters that come across as more stupid than shy or uncertain. Deep down, the movie may be not just stereotypical but also unintentionally misogynist. The two women in the film are the sensitive Amanda, who's like the flipside to Dr. P's, and the nasty raging bitch (Sarah Silverman, who doesn't have a role so much as a series of one-liners).
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School for Scoundrels opens to theatres on September 29th.
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