The New Guy
A high school senior branded uncool in the ninth grade gets himself expelled so he changes his image to cool kid at the town's other high school. There he sets out to destroy the popularity-obsessed social system, boost school morale and win the heart of a girl.
15 July 1968, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
3 October 1962, Athens, Greece
18 November 1978, Clovis, New Mexico, USA
June 19, 1980 in Texas, USA
15 June 1979, San Diego, California, USA
25 February 1977, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
29 October 1978, Pittsford, New York, USA
June 11, 2013
It's a fun, upbeat movie, and there are scenes that are downright hilarious.
June 11, 2013
DJ Qualls does possess some charm, but not the chutzpah to make the forced humor float.
March 06, 2007
It isn't very good, but it doesn't seem to care, which turns out to be rather refreshing.
June 11, 2013
Despite the endearing presence of DJ Qualls, this feeble farce scrapes the bottom of the gross-out barrel with pitiful results.
July 20, 2002
This is a truly awful movie, made from one of the worst scripts in memory. The New Guy has been on the shelf for more than a year, and it's clear the reason for the long wait wasn't perfectionism. More likely, it was embarrassment.
August 06, 2008
Distinguished by certain rodent-like features, Qualls is a bargain-basement, pre-adult version of David Spade -- and becomes just as tiresome.
June 01, 2002
Written, flatly, by David Kendall and directed, barely, by There's Something About Mary co-writer Ed Decter.
November 05, 2002
Never gets on the good foot.
June 11, 2013
So what's new about The New Guy? Not much, actually.
June 11, 2013
Maybe the only thing revelatory about The New Guy is how redemptive a good heart can be to even the most derivative film. Be prepared to smile.
June 11, 2013
A comedy just funny enough to make viewers wish it were far funnier.
June 11, 2013
A very forgettable new teen comedy.
