40
The story is flimsy, and when the dialogue touches on controversial issues regarding the SAT and its fairness, the slacker tone turns abruptly melodramatic.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
20
"X is to Y, as this shit is to boring."
38
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Only sharp dialogue and a suspenseful buglary might have given this lame, quasi morality play some energy. It has neither.
40
Disfigured by flabby dialogue (“You can't put a number on my dreams!”), unfunny pratfalls and criminally slack pacing.
40
Dallas Observer by Luke Y. Thompson
The heist itself is quite nicely filmed herein, but unfortunately, getting to it requires sitting through a bunch of noisy, fussy crap, from the overly busy soundtrack to the irritating narration of stoned guy Leonardo Nam.
50
Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
The comedy about a coterie of high school seniors plotting to steal the answers to the dreaded standardized test talks a pretty good game, but in the end the numbers just don't add up to much.
25
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
The movie, which strains to be hip in a faux-1985 beat-the-system way, takes such a light view of cheating that it has the ironic effect of rendering the heist that follows utterly innocuous.
50
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
You may be able to find parallels between these characters and those in "The Breakfast Club." On the other hand, you may decide life is too short.