Admirably aiming to recreate the feelings of newfound freedom and self-discovery that college inspires, Freshman Orientation never finds a way to successfully execute its good intentions.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 8, 2007

You enter expecting something really stupid, and you wind up with something really clever . . . hysterical . . . wise.

| Oct 20, 2007

John Goodman has a nice turn as a queen with a heart of gold.

| Sep 28, 2007

...might push boundaries better were it not so painfully unfunny.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 28, 2007

...goes way over the top for the Greeks vs. Gays climax.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 28, 2007

A campus comedy with a dirty mouth, an innocent heart and a surprisingly wise mind, Freshman Orientation uses identity politics as a road to romance and emotional maturity. The naked breasts are a bonus.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2007

The charms of this college gross-out comedy with a "message" are elusive.

| Sep 27, 2007

Consider my two-star rating an indication that the film's Gut-Buster-to-Forehead-Slapper ratio is relatively even.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 23, 2007

This trivial film toys with the postmodern lifestyles.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 21, 2007

Freshman Orientation is not incompetently made. Nor is it badly acted. But there's not a fresh idea in it, and everyone on screen seems to be in a different comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 20, 2007

OK, it's official: I no longer care about 18 year olds.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 18, 2007

Theatres showing it will likely have as many conspicuously empty seats as the classrooms and barrooms in this picture, which was apparently shot on such a shoestring that they couldn't even get enough extras to fill a set.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 15, 2007

Freshman Orientation barely rates a passing grade.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 1, 2007

...too often feels more like a tapped-out keg than a provocative romp.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 31, 2007

A genderbending teensploit turning on a clever twist of the genre's trademark theme. For while most makeover movies feature a female making herself more attractive, this flick has a male deliberately doing the opposite.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 31, 2007

Writer/director Ryan Shiraki certainly adds some youthful exuberance to his debut feature film, but it's all wasted on a tremendously misguided and exhaustively dim screenplay

| Original Score: D | Aug 31, 2007

| Original Score: D | Aug 31, 2007

There are other things to like about writer-director Ryan Shiraki's college comedy, mainly that it feels more real than most... Just one problem: It isn't particularly funny.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2007

Freshman Orientation feels a bit like a missed opportunity. It's too bad the motion picture as a whole isn't as quirky and clever as its double-edged title.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 29, 2007

Blessedly shrewd where it counts and deserves notice. The lessons develop naturally and aren't jammed down the viewer's throat like the hypocritical sermonizing in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 23, 2007