Underclassman: Teen Cop‘s intensely familiar vibe is exacerbated by Cannon’s irritating, nails-on-a-chalkboard performance...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 31, 2023

Marcos Siega's movie is a smudged paint-by-numbers police story with every cliche except a 24-hour deadline to solve the case.

Full Review | Jun 10, 2013

Meant as a vehicle to deliver young actor Nick Cannon to headliner status, this lame comedy just limps along like a tricycle with bent rims.

| Jun 10, 2013

Cannon co-executive produced so he has to accept some of the blame for the lack of laughs and thrills, leaving Hugh Bonneville to ham it up for all he's worth as the school's snobbish headmaster.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 10, 2013

The finish, a rush of climaxes, can make you feel zoned at 3 a.m., trying to decide between 온라인카지노추천 and the wallpaper.

Full Review | Jun 10, 2013

Consists of little more than tired racial jokes and fish-out-of-water gags.

| Jun 10, 2013

Even the chase scenes sag as debut director Marcos Siega disappoints audiences at every turn.

| Original Score: D | Apr 15, 2009

It's mind-boggling that such relentlessly offensive trash ever finds financial backing from a major Hollywood studio.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 26, 2007

This is geared toward the preteen set, but director Marcos Siega proves inept at executing the most basic dramatic and comedic setups, and Cannon's mugging and preening quickly grow tiresome.

| Mar 6, 2007

The premise of The Underclassman is so familiar as to be groan-inducing, but the happy surprise is that it goes down very easily, and makes for agreeable summer light entertainment.

| Mar 1, 2007

Fill a movie with enough racial jokes, speedy car chases and a handful of mysterious characters, and you're bound to woo the public, right? Not quite.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 21, 2006

The smart-mouth-maverick-cop genre never looked more shopworn and played-out than in this halfhearted, half-baked mess.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 12, 2006

It seems that the filmmakers behind Underclassman think that Nick Cannon is the second coming of comedy genius. The sad fact is that he ain't.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 19, 2006

Underclassman is primarily a string of clichs looking for a story.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jan 16, 2006

However unfortunate or sad it is that people enjoy experiencing mediocre quality cinema, if you have nothing more stimulating to do on a Friday night, Underclassman could provide the entertainment -- not enlightenment -- you seek.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Almost comically unambitious, Underclassman seldom tries to be funny, and never even attempts to be original.

| Sep 26, 2005

The film feels like the victim of too many rewrites and edits, with lots of plotlines that go nowhere or feel oddly unfulfilled.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 21, 2005

Cannon simply doesn't have the chemistry with his co-stars that he needs; it's as if he's trying to perform a one-man show

Full Review | Sep 16, 2005

Underclassman can't seem to decide if it wants to be a cop comedy or take on a more serious tone. Either way, it doesn't succeed.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 10, 2005

At times Tracy's a sensitive guy who just needs a hug; at others, he's an obnoxious motormouth.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 10, 2005