Dave: Devon Sawa
Sam: Jason Segal
Jeff: Michael C. Maronna
Ethan: Jason Schwartzman
Angela: James King
Professor Markoe: Don Michaelson
Isn't about time Hollywood put out a teen movie?
Why it seems like they
haven't had one in years. Oh wait, they have! Every month in the year
brings another poorly written, gross out humor ridden, people you hate
teen comedy. So that's 12 per year and a few more during the dog days of
August. Hollywood has to be running out of teen movie ideas, next
they'll move onto something even more degrading and terrible (if that's
possible). The only decent teen movie I've seen in years is
Orange County
and even that wasn't great. I first saw a preview of Slackers way
back on July 14th, 2000, opening day of
X-Men.
Back then it was called
Cheaters. Then it was delayed and renamed and reshuffled from New Line
to USA and finally to Screen Gems. I'm pretty sure it was Cheaters
because the underlining plot of cheating is still in Slackers, if I'm
wrong I know the name change and studio change is true. But who cares?
Do you need a history on one of the worst movies in recent memories?
Slackers tells the story of a group of college cheaters who are caught
by a strange kid, Ethan, who blackmails them into agreeing with him.
Ethan threatens to give the school evidence of their cheating if the
cheaters do not get him the girl of his dreams, Angela. Of course in
trying to get to her, main cheater David falls in love with her too.
Whoa! What a major twist, I did not see that coming! And then, suprise,
suprise, Ethan tells her and she hates him and blah blah. Teen movies
are running low on fuel for entertaining stories and this is just the
nail in the coffin.
Slackers was so bad that I found myself laughing at it's pathetic
attempts to get me to laugh. Scenes of Ethan giving a sponge bath to a
nude 70-year-old woman are almost vomit-inducing and a weird slacker
spats out idiotic sentences to get us to laugh. One of the worst movies
I've had the displeasure of watching.
Into the disc. Columbia has given Slackers a widescreen transfer and a
full frame transfer on the one side of the disc. The picture is fine but
it looks a little soft at times. Pixelization is pretty hard to spot but
it's just not a very eventful transfer. Wow. I didn't make fun of the
movie in this paragraph.
The sound is average as well. Only an English 5.1 option is available
and it's just not very booming or anything. Just average.
Columbia has supplied this DVD with....... a bunch of theatrical
trailers. That's it and I can't blame them. Why waste more money on a
crappy movie than you have to?
Overall, this is a movie that has earned a rating of beyond the level of
terrible. No woner it took so long to come out and no wonder it lasted a
week at the theaters. A bad movie with a bad DVD. Movies like this make
me realize how good Super Troopers was compared to this. The front of
the box reads: "Higher eductation has reached a new low". I've got a
better one: "Teen movies have reached a new low".
As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B
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