More goofy than caustic. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2019

School for Scoundrels has some solid opportunities for real dark comedy, but blows most of them for maudlin romantic-comedy tripe, and the ones it does go for it never takes far enough.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 30, 2011

Dismal comedy about nerds trying to be cool.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 20, 2008

School for Losers would have made a lot more sense.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 21, 2007

...the film remains consistently watchable thanks to Todd Phillips and Scot Armstrong's surprisingly clever screenplay and the uniformly effective performances.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 11, 2007

You might want to sign up for study hall instead.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

The only link to the original books is the name Dr P given to the foulmouthed teacher of a New York class offering assertiveness training to pathetic nerds. He's played by Billy Bob Thornton, which is rather like casting Burt Reynolds as Bertrand Russell.

| Feb 26, 2007

It's funny at first, but then loses its way so badly that it somehow winds up as a high-tech espionage thriller.

| Feb 26, 2007

Only toward the end of the film do the hostilities reach a level of recklessness with any potential to be funny. If things had started at that pitch and been ramped up from there, Phillips might have had a movie worth making.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 26, 2007

The comic sallies and set-pieces are very much at the wrong end of the bang-whimper spectrum.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 23, 2007

Billy Bob phones in a below-par performance but still blows his young rival off the screen.

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

Unlike the original, this version is never sure whether it wants to go to the dark side or not.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 23, 2007

Wearily spins straw out of its none-too-original premise.

| Feb 23, 2007

Charmless, uncomprehending US remake.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 23, 2007

It's not funny; there were three laughs I counted over the entire course of the movie.

| Feb 23, 2007

A choice cast fails to turn this woeful slapstick into the scathing attack on weak minds the film half promises.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 23, 2007

Crass, obvious and largely unfunny - in fact just about everything the original film isn't.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 23, 2007

The characters are one-dimensional, the plot makeshift, and the jokes unrelentingly cruel.

| Feb 22, 2007

As a comedy it can never sustain itself, and while there are moments to enjoy, it is all pretty forgettable, which is a shame because the concept remains an amusing one.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 22, 2007