Critic Reviews

• Robert Koehler, Variety

  This debut for helmer and vid vet Dewey Nicks and scribe David H. Steinberg, a feverishly naughty revenge comedy, is awful and subversively spunky at the same time.

• Derek Adams, Time Out

  If it's unlikely to stimulate the brain cells, it will almost certainly make you laugh out loud.

• Mark Holcomb, Village Voice

  Nicks and Steinberg match their own creations for pure venality -- that's giving it the old college try.

• Susan Stark, Detroit News

  Airs the same kind of randy, testosterone-fueled humor that has been a staple of comedies about college party guys since Animal House.

• Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

  [I]t may be the first movie ever targeted to John Hinkley, about the only person I can see as the target audience.

• , USA Today

  There are laughs here, but easily as many groans.

• Stefan Birgir Stefansson, sbs.is

  good acting, nothing much more

• Brian Webster, Apollo Guide

  It's several good jokes, a whole lot of character development and some skilled direction away from crossing the line from moronic to crudely inspired.

• Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

  I found myself laughing a lot.

• David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

  ...should have been a lot better.

• Jim Shelby, Palo Alto Weekly

  This may be a vaguely gratifying rent someday if you are intrigued with Schwartzman's early movies. He'll surely be around for a while.

• Marrit Ingman, Austin Chronicle

  The less said about this, the better.

• Tom Grealis, RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

  You really have to wonder how on earth anyone, anywhere could have thought they'd make audiences guffaw with a script as utterly diabolical as this.

• John R. McEwen, Film Quips Online

  Isn't it a pity when the best words a film critic can say about a movie are 'not an absolute bomb'?

• Manohla Dargis, L.A. Weekly

  Calculated swill.

• Michael Dequina, Film Threat

  Ultimately as generic as its title.

• Stephen Farber, Movieline

  It turns out to be a cut above the norm, thanks to some clever writing and sprightly acting.

• Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

  It's elevated into watchability thanks to the presence of Jason Schwartzman and some inspired off-the-wall moments amongst the smutty gags.

• Margaret A. McGurk, Cincinnati Enquirer

  There is so much wrong with Slackers, it may be more efficient simply to point out the one acceptable ingredient: Jason Schwartzman.

• Mark Palermo, Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

  Its effect could appeal only to hardcore masochists: you pay it $9.50 and it spends the next two-hours laughing at how dumb you are.

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