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Columbia Tristar
- Cert: R
- Cat.no: 08084
- Running time: 86 minutes
- Year: 2001
- Pressing: 2002
- Region(s): 1, NTSC
- Chapters: 28
- Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
- Languages: English
- Subtitles: English
- Widescreen: 1.85:1; Standard: 1.33:1
- 16:9-Enhanced: Yes
- Macrovision: No
- Disc Format: DVD 9
- Price: $27.96
- Extras:Theatrical trailers
Director:
- Dewey Nicks
Screenplay:
- David H. Steinberg
Cast:
- 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 theyhaven’t had one in years. Oh wait, they have! Every month in the yearbrings another poorly written, gross out humor ridden, people you hateteen comedy. So that’s 12 per year and a few more during the dog days ofAugust. Hollywood has to be running out of teen movie ideas, nextthey’ll move onto something even more degrading and terrible (if that’spossible). The only decent teen movie I’ve seen in years isOrange Countyand even that wasn’t great. I first saw a preview of Slackers wayback on July 14th, 2000, opening day ofX-Men.Back then it was calledCheaters. Then it was delayed and renamed and reshuffled from New Lineto USA and finally to Screen Gems. I’m pretty sure it was Cheatersbecause the underlining plot of cheating is still in Slackers, if I’mwrong 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 caughtby a strange kid, Ethan, who blackmails them into agreeing with him.Ethan threatens to give the school evidence of their cheating if thecheaters do not get him the girl of his dreams, Angela. Of course intrying 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 moviesare running low on fuel for entertaining stories and this is just thenail in the coffin.
Slackers was so bad that I found myself laughing at it’s patheticattempts to get me to laugh. Scenes of Ethan giving a sponge bath to anude 70-year-old woman are almost vomit-inducing and a weird slackerspats out idiotic sentences to get us to laugh. One of the worst moviesI’ve had the displeasure of watching.
Into the disc. Columbia has given Slackers a widescreen transfer and afull frame transfer on the one side of the disc. The picture is fine butit looks a little soft at times. Pixelization is pretty hard to spot butit’s just not a very eventful transfer. Wow. I didn’t make fun of themovie in this paragraph.
The sound is average as well. Only an English 5.1 option is availableand it’s just not very booming or anything. Just average.
Columbia has supplied this DVD with……. a bunch of theatricaltrailers. That’s it and I can’t blame them. Why waste more money on acrappy movie than you have to?
Overall, this is a movie that has earned a rating of beyond the level ofterrible. No woner it took so long to come out and no wonder it lasted aweek at the theaters. A bad movie with a bad DVD. Movies like this makeme realize how good Super Troopers was compared to this. The front ofthe box reads: “Higher eductation has reached a new low”. I’ve got abetter one: “Teen movies have reached a new low”.
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.