Lyle Lovett plays the hero's dad: money must be tight. DJ Qualls: aiming at the dumb and dumber crowd.

| Jan 12, 2018

A comedy just funny enough to make viewers wish it were far funnier.

| Jun 11, 2013

The New Guy is a waste of talent and time.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Distinguished by certain rodent-like features, Qualls is a bargain-basement, pre-adult version of David Spade -- and becomes just as tiresome.

Full Review | Aug 6, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 10, 2007

It isn't very good, but it doesn't seem to care, which turns out to be rather refreshing.

| Mar 6, 2007

Likeable characters and a cliched but meatier-than-usual story for a teen comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Never gets on the good foot.

Full Review | Original Score: D- | Nov 5, 2002

Could the release of this dire film mark the moment at which we all fall spectacularly out of love with the American high-school teen comedy?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 2, 2002

Don't expect any subtlety from this latest entry in the increasingly threadbare gross-out comedy cycle.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2002

This is a truly awful movie, made from one of the worst scripts in memory. The New Guy has been on the shelf for more than a year, and it's clear the reason for the long wait wasn't perfectionism. More likely, it was embarrassment.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 20, 2002

It contains moments that suggest a genuinely original comic sensibility, but too often the film retreats into standard gross-out territory.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 26, 2002

So wrongheaded that this one couldn't even have looked good on paper.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 17, 2002

[L]ame and unnecessary.

Full Review | May 13, 2002

A very bad movie.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 12, 2002

Qualls moves his marionette body around with a true clown's effervescence, and he does rubber-faced parodies of youth cool that are just what youth cool deserves.

| Original Score: C+ | May 11, 2002

Every bad cliche of every bad high school movie finds a home here.

Full Review | May 10, 2002

A particularly loathsome piece of cultural detritus.

Full Review | May 10, 2002

There's no getting around the fact that this is Revenge Of The Nerds Revisited -- again.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 10, 2002

The film's thoroughly recycled plot and tiresome jokes ... drag the movie down.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 10, 2002