Dizzy Harrison is an unpopular, high school geek going through a hellish senior year. In an attempt to make a new identity for himself, Dizzy gets himself expelled from his high school, learns the technics of being cool from a prison inmate, and enrolls at a new high school under the alias Gil Harris, to make new friends where he soon gains respect from the jocks and geeks alike. Dizzy then gets noticed by the head cheerleader, Danielle, and helps the school football team gain self-respect to win games. But things unknowingly begin to turn sour when Danielle's disgruntled boyfriend begins inv... estigating into "Gil Harris'" past to uncover any dirt on him.
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Hey, kids! We know it's close to finals and it's, like, the height of sadism to spring a pop quiz just before a May weekend. Bear with us. It's just one measly multiple-choice question.
The New Guy is:
(a) An argument for the abolition of high school.
(b) An argument for the abolition of high school movies.
(c) An apologia for high school losers.
(d) A backhanded insult to self-respecting geeks in all walks of life.
(e) All of the above.
Somewhere between (d) and (e), one could probably insert: "An unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years." Which can be the only ration...
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Def worth a watch! If you like funny American teen movies with jerk football players and hot cheerleaders picking on the poor geeks at the botom of the social ladder... this is definatly another one to see. A story about a kid that goes from zero to hero. Funny from start to finish.
New Guy, The
"...Qualls moves his marionette body around with a true clown's effervescence, and he does rubber-faced parodies of youth cool that are just what youth cool deserves..."
Those with retentive memories may recall Can't Buy Me Love, a 1987 comedy starring Patrick Dempsey as a high school nerd who bribes a cheerleader to be his date and give him much-needed street cred. Fifteen years later the same plot resurfaces in The New Guy - only this time it takes a brief spell in prison to make Dizzy (Qualls) the most popular guy at his new school having been the laughing stock of his old one.
Director Ed Decter, whose first movie this is, made his name as one of the writers on the Farrelly brothers' There's Something About Mary, so it's not surprising to find that subtlety is in short supply here. Midgets are put in rubbish bins and rolled ...
New Guy, The
"...[The film] has a lively sweetness....THE NEW GUY does have a heart..."
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a million laughs and heres some more trivia for ya...the skinny guy in the court yard (prison) with all the tatoo\'s is the lead singer from buckcherry
