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Peter Debruge, Miami Herald: Phillips' version does add one tantalizing twist as Thornton singles out his best student (Heder, of course) and takes him on mano a mano, but it seems like an awful lot of trouble to win over such an uninteresting love interest. Read more
Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: This ultimately disappointing comedy starts reasonably strong, delivers a few good laughs, then rolls over and plays dead. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Ultimately, School for Scoundrels earns a failing grade. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Director Todd Phillips has become Hollywood's go-to guy for collegiate humor, and though this isn't as funny as his Road Trip or Old School, there are some choice sequences of the devious Thornton schooling his milquetoast students. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: While the film is demeaned by sight gags aimed at teenage boys, it has a smart center and delightful performances from Heder and Thornton. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Things get increasingly dopey in the final act, leading to an incredibly stupid ending, but I have to admit I laughed just enough to recommend School for Scoundrels. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Phillips' theory of comedy mainly consists of: When in doubt, make someone strip down to his underwear. Read more
Kathy Cano Murillo, Arizona Republic: There are a few amusing shticks, but School for Scoundrels fails to make the grade. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It achieves something previously thought impossible: It renders Billy Bob Thornton unfunny. Read more
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: What's almost refreshing about Phillips' approach to comedy... is that he and co-writer Scot Armstrong like the classically unfettered fun of a silly bit played to the hilt. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Nice guys and creeps make it to the finish line, though I won't say how they place. But I will divulge this: The movie's a loser. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Guys are guys in Todd Phillips movies, for better or worse, but almost always for the purposes of arriving somewhere in the same ZIP code as the truth. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: There's too much familiarity in School for Scoundrels for it to be break-out funny. There are chuckles, sure, but they're chuckles you've had before. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Director Todd Phillips tries for the kind of frat slaphappiness he applied so successfully to Old School, but these boys are less scoundrels than individual salesmen for the brands of Heder and Thornton. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Todd Phillips is swiftly becoming the go-to guy for comedy that's a lot smarter than it looks or probably needs to be. Read more
Dallas Morning News: You want it to be over long before the needless epilogue that fills you in on how all these freaks turned out. Read more
Christopher Orr, L.A. Weekly: While the supporting players are a pleasure - especially backup doofuses David Cross and Todd Louiso -- Heder should probably have been among them. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: A battering ram of rude encounters that aspires to be a romantic comedy. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Heder's looks and mannerisms are so inherently geeky that the post-transformation Roger appears to be less a lion with a hearty roar than a dork with delusions of grandeur. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: School for Scoundrels is a simply written, perfectly cast, sneaky-edgy, stab-yourself-in-the-leg-with-a-pen laugh riot. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: It would require a near-lethal injection of nitrous oxide to induce laughter. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Is it a black comedy that isn't dark enough? Or a dumb comedy that isn't stupid enough, or a gross-out comedy that isn't yucky enough? Or is it really just a romance comedy that isn't sweet enough? Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: School for Scoundrels is an exercise in advanced comedic embalming. Read more
Anna Smith, Time Out: It's the stuff of simple comedy, but as frat-flicks go it's a return to form for director Todd Phillips. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: It feels as if director Phillips was scrounging desperately for morsels with comic potential and came up empty-handed. Read more
Emanuel Levy, Variety: This unfunny comedy, a loose remake of a 1960s British romp, can't decide whether Billy Bob Thonrton's "teacher" is a hero or villain and thus every scene negates the previous one in tone and morale until the movie literally self-destructs at the end Read more
Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice: The movie wouldn't work without someone as nondescript as Heder, because you can buy him as a do-nothing, go-nowhere man; he's perfectly, wonderfully forgettable, appropriate for a movie like this. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The movie is bereft of any real focus or provocative ideas, which is a surprising result from [director] Phillips, the maker of Road Trip and Old School. Read more