Slackers

Slackers (2002)

Genres - Comedy, Romance  |   Sub-Genres - Gross-Out Comedy, Sex Comedy, Teen Movie  |   Release Date - Feb 1, 2002 (USA)  |   Run Time - 87 min.  |   Countries - Canada, United States  |   MPAA Rating - R
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Review by Michael Hastings

Those who long for the halcyon days of the Police Academy franchise need look no further than Slackers, a post-teen, gross-out, campus sex farce that makes the fatal mistake of asking the audience to sympathize with its glamorized yet unglamorous, uninterestingly amoral, and completely unfunny schemer protagonists. First-time (and it shows) director Dewey Nicks doesn't even seem to know what he has. In a cast featuring Rushmore's loopily inspired Jason Schwartzman and two off-the-wall veterans of teen TV (Freaks and Geeks' Nick Segel and The Adventures of Pete and Pete's Michael C. Maronna), Nicks wastes time on the bland antics of perma-void pinup Devon Sawa and his somnambulant love interest James King. With its graphic references to masturbation, sado-masochism, and geriatric fornication, Slackers may earn some points with the cult comedy crowd, but don't be fooled: This is Hollywood moviemaking at its most desperate and generic.