Advantages: Its quite short Disadvantages: Where do I start
...I was talked into getting Slackers after a friend recommended it, with the line "It's like American Pie, but with intelligence". Oh what a mistake, maybe I misheard him, but Slackers is definitely not an intelligent version of American Pie. I can see the similarities, the stars of the film are 3 university students, a nerd and a beautiful girl and there is plenty of over the top gags which would fit into an American Pie movie. But unlike American ... ...basis of the story to Slackers is a love story, some people have made a comparison between this and the story of Cyrano de Bergerac, but trust me, the similarity is very small. We see the university geek; blackmail 3 students into helping him win the affection of his dream girl, unfortunately this backfires as his dream girl falls for one of the blackmailed students. This is really very weak and on its own would really struggle to fill out the film. ...
christianfilmcritic 21.03.2006
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Slackers (DVD)
Advantages: Brilliantly funny in places, especially involving Jason Schwartzman. Disadvantages: Boring romance plot and loses some of its inventiveness with same-old jokes.
Three college students, Dave, Jeff and Sam scam and cheat their way through college, but campus weirdo Ethan finds out and threatens to reveal all unless they help him succeed with the object of his desires, Angela.
The trio, led by Dave (Devon Sawa-Final Destination) do their best to make Ethan (Jason Schwartzman-Rushmore), or "Cool Ethan" as he likes to be known, as appealing as possible to the beautiful Angela (James King-Pearl Harbour). Quite ... ...and jeapordising the trio's college existence. Then begins the process of the three attemtping appease and at the same time discredit Ethan.
The only real dissapointment in my opinion is the romance between Dave and Angela which is boring and rambling, but throughout the monotony of this are some very funny and ingenious situations, mainly involving Ethan as the highly unstable, almost psychotic stalker. In this role Schwartzman steals the show ...
su82 18.11.2005
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Slackers (DVD)
They're the best scammers on campus and with their lethal combination of arrogance wit ... more
and sheer audacity there's nothing they can't do. But when the winning trio of Dave (Devon Sawa) Sam and Jeff get caught cheating on their finals by super geek Et...
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They're the best scammers on campus, and with their lethal combination of arrogance, wit ... more
and sheer audacity there's nothing they can't do - But when the winning trio of Dave (Devon Sawa), Sam and Jeff get caught cheating on their finals by super geek E...
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