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(1 - 27) of 27 OFCS Rating: 26% Rotten Page   1   "Perfectly cast, but too mean spirited for me."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker C "Those who can't get enough of Heder's shtick will likely come away pleased, but those expecting a raucous, even offensive, comedy had best diminish their expectations."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark D+ "Jon Heder. He's the worst thing to happen to comedy since the invention of the frown."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf C+ ""School For Scoundrels" relies on Thornton's hovering performance to drive the film, and the formula nearly succeeds in the face of Jon Heder's narrow comic range and inability to develop his character over the course of the story."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey ""Did he rape you?" This question serves as a running gag throughout School for Scoundrels, a decidedly unfunny comedy about a wimp who becomes not a wimp."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2.5/4 "...the film remains consistently watchable thanks to Todd Phillips and Scot Armstrong's surprisingly clever screenplay and the uniformly effective performances."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "Filled with lame schoolboy yuks."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "A film of schizophrenic tonal shifts and sadly missed opportunities."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman C+ "A fitfully amusing but overall unsatisfying film."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider B "Thoroughly worthy of Todd Phillips, and appropriate for teenagers' dollars, hard-earned or otherwise."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "Unfortunately for the toothless rabble-rousing School for Scoundrels this disposable and dimwitted farce deserves its smirking class to be dismissed."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng B- "Mildly engaging...in an age of appallingly coarse comedies, its relative restraint is definitely welcome."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/4 "School for Scoundrels feels like a wasted opportunity."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/5 "School for Scoundrels has some good ideas and funny moments, but it loses steam as it goes on, which you really feel when it resorts to yuks involving defibrillator paddles accidentally applied to a character’s genitals."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 2.5/4.0 "Napoleon Dynamite vs. Bad Santa... has plenty of lighthearted laughs to keep audiences entertained one last weekend before the real scary movies come out."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 3.5/5 "It's funny. It's hip. And it's the only new movie in wide release that doesn't star Ashton Kutcher."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 2/4 "If IKEA made movies, they might look something like this: a big bunch of prefabricated parts that not so obviously fit together."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest 1.5/4 "For all its crudeness, Phillips' tale of men behaving badly is remarkably toothless."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "If Clueless is Jane Austen for people who don't know from books, then Scoundrels is farce for people who think Restoration comedy is when you spill a barrel of doorknobs in a fancy hardware store."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2.5/4 "School for Scoundrels has all the raw elements needed to be a classic comedy, but it never finds the right rhythm. The movie is ostensibly about cruelty and calculation, yet its tone is too nice."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C "Better at set-up than delivery, this is an underwritten movie with a lot of lags between laughs."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1.5/4 "Asked only to regurgitate prior performances, Heder dutifully performs his bumbling Napoleon Dynamite shtick and Thornton berates people with caustic Bad Santa/Bad News Bears nastiness."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1/5 "Instead of making films about dopes taking remedial classes in self-actualization, Todd Phillips could spend his time instead taking remedial classes on how to make a competent film comedy."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2/5 "Enough entertaining dialog and performances to keep us chuckling, even though it's not particularly clever."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C+ "Don't expect a sparkling laugh fest but [those] attracted to it will have some mild fun."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford C "Todd Phillips' fitfully funny script never delivers the crude creativity or the raw energy that feeds this genre of proudly crass male-centric comedies."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 5/10 Read review   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo  (1 - 27) of 27 OFCS Rating: 26% Rotten Page   1