Even the chase scenes sag as debut director Marcos Siega disappoints audiences at every turn.
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04/15/09
Underclassman (2005)
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Reviews Counted:77
Fresh:6
Rotten:71
Average Rating:2.8/10
Consensus: Despite the appealing presence of Nick Cannon, Underclassman is a shopworn Beverly Hills Cop/ 21 Jump Street knockoff.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $5,567,645
Synopsis: Nick Cannon plays Tracy "Tre" Stokes, a streetwise LA cop in 'Underclassman' which combines frenetic action with sharp-eared comedy. When a student at an elite private school gets murdered, the... [More]
Starring: Nick Cannon, Roselyn Sanchez, Shawn Ashmore, Cheech Marin
Director: Marcos Siega
Reviews for Underclassman
It's mind-boggling that such relentlessly offensive trash ever finds financial backing from a major Hollywood studio.
05/26/07
This is geared toward the preteen set, but director Marcos Siega proves inept at executing the most basic dramatic and comedic setups, and Cannon's mugging and preening quickly grow tiresome.
03/06/07
The premise of The Underclassman is so familiar as to be groan-inducing, but the happy surprise is that it goes down very easily, and makes for agreeable summer light entertainment.
03/01/07
The smart-mouth-maverick-cop genre never looked more shopworn and played-out than in this halfhearted, half-baked mess.
05/12/06
It seems that the filmmakers behind Underclassman think that Nick Cannon is the second coming of comedy genius. The sad fact is that he ain't.
02/19/06
Underclassman is primarily a string of clichés looking for a story.
01/16/06
However unfortunate or sad it is that people enjoy experiencing mediocre quality cinema, if you have nothing more stimulating to do on a Friday night, Underclassman could provide the entertainment -- not enlightenment -- you seek.
12/06/05
...a low rent Beverly Hills Cop wannabe.
10/10/05
Almost comically unambitious, Underclassman seldom tries to be funny, and never even attempts to be original.
09/26/05
Here we have a definite candidate for the year's worst picture.
09/24/05
The film feels like the victim of too many rewrites and edits, with lots of plotlines that go nowhere or feel oddly unfulfilled.
09/21/05
Cannon simply doesn't have the chemistry with his co-stars that he needs; it's as if he's trying to perform a one-man show
09/16/05
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09/10/05
Underclassman can't seem to decide if it wants to be a cop comedy or take on a more serious tone. Either way, it doesn't succeed.
09/10/05
Underclassman flails around for 95 of the draggiest minutes that you could possibly encounter.
09/10/05
Cannon is abrasive and obnoxious, the comedy is not funny and the thrills are not thrilling.
09/09/05
[A] clichéd and callow action-comedy piece that’s about as appetizing as a dead worm in the teacher’s apple. Hence, the flawed Underclassman simply doesn’t make the grade
09/09/05
With movies like this is it a wonder that all theaters have lacked for most of the summer was the occasional tumbleweed to complete the illusion of their being ghost towns?
09/08/05
This is one of those movies where at the end of the year you’ll say, 'Underclassman, what was that about? I don’t even remember it.'
09/06/05
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