...an agreeably over-the-top premise that’s employed to periodically passable yet mostly underwhelming effect...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 14, 2023

A footnote on the resumes of early 2000s stars Lee and Tom Green, this is a buddy comedy that runs on strained jokes rather than any real chemistry between the leads.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 28, 2022

Relying on tired sight gags and a continual theme of men wearing women's clothing, Stealing Harvard is a crime in and of itself.

| Nov 15, 2019

With only an occasional laugh here and there, this is just another of the many stinky comedies to come around in years.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 29, 2009

Director Bruce McCulloch tries to minimize the damage Green does, but even one frame of him would be too much.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 10, 2007

Among the squandered supporting cast are Dennis Farina, Chris Penn, Megan Mullally, and Seymour Cassel.

| Feb 26, 2007

Weird, then, how the cast play as if holding their breath for the pay cheque.

| Jun 24, 2006

McCulloch stages his action as if he were still working on the two-walled sets he knew from Canadian television.

Full Review | Sep 11, 2003

There is no real reason to see this unless you are related to someone involved in the project, and even then you might think pretty hard before you spend $9 and 90 minutes here.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 20, 2003

Stealing Harvard is a limp and lazy affair, and a flick that positively reeks of contractual obligation.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 26, 2003

This is just lazy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 21, 2003

Nothing can survive the toxic unfunniness of Green.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 25, 2003

You'll just have your head in your hands wondering why Lee's character didn't just go to a bank manager and save everyone the misery.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 13, 2003

The result is a corps of good actors stuck with feeble, unfunny material that could easily pass as a crime against the moviegoing public.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Mar 10, 2003

It's no-win stuff. It's not offensive enough to appeal to Green's (ever-decreasing) fan-base, nor witty enough to convince anyone else.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 4, 2003

This film tries so hard to be both charming and disgusting that it's almost painful to watch.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 16, 2003

I suppose as long as there are teenage boys to shell out money for movie tickets, there will be movies like this to suck it up.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

There's a funny movie trapped somewhere inside Stealing Harvard, but the finished product offers only fleeting glimpses of it.

Full Review | Jan 8, 2003

The film is like a series of beginnings and middles that never take off.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 8, 2002