Directed By:Ed Decter
Written By:David Kendall
The New Guy
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
24
User score
Generally Favorable
6.3
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
24
9% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
26% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
65% Negative
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
63
The New Guy doesn't have a new idea in its head, but it trods over the old ground with such wit and heart that its lack of originality can be overlooked, if not entirely forgiven.
50
It makes little sense, fails as often as it succeeds, and yet is not hateful and is sometimes quite cheerfully original.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.3
57% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
22% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
22% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
Feb 5, 2017
7
The movie was predictable and cliché, but it was funny, interesting and pretty entertaining. It ultimately felt like a parody of other teen movies and it's not a bad thing at all.
Sep 7, 2011
7
A loveable high school comedy. It's not the funniest movie in the world, but it does make you laugh. I'm a **** for good cameos, and this movie is chock full of them. My biggest complaint is the scene where the actors are miming to a funk song, and it shows the guitar pretend playing the bassline. Other than that, it is totally worth a watch.
40
A comedy just funny enough to make viewers wish it were far funnier.
25
The slapdash comic flailing of screenwriter and TV scribe-turned-director Ed Decter is only compounded by a script so disconnected you have to wonder if pages were lost on the way to the set.
20
Various actors deserving of better (including Zooey Deschanel, Eddie Griffin and Lyle Lovett) suffer through the undercooked material, while love interest Eliza Dushku gamely gets through both a bikini-modeling montage and a mechanical bull ride, but none of their efforts can save this film.
10
An unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years. Which can be the only rational explanation for making such a mess all over the screen.
0
An ugly-duckling tale so hideously and clumsily told it feels accidental. Surely, no one PLANNED something this disastrously unfunny.
Feb 8, 2012
5
This movie came out when I was 11 and I bet I would've totally enjoyed the hell out of it at that age but I'm 20 now and I just saw it. It's just dumb but i do applaud it for it's over-the-topness, it's like a dumb comic book made into a movie.
