Critic Reviews
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Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Had Stealing Harvard merely been a stupid movie about people stuck in a string of silly moments, it could have gotten by on charm. As written by Peter Tolan and directed by Bruce McCulloch (''Kids in the Hall'') it's a stupid movie about stupid people.
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Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
While Stealing Harvard may be a chucklehead comedy, Lee is oddly touching and funny. Mostly because, unlike Green, he's not aggressively trying to make us laugh.
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USA Today Mike Clark
When the most notable thing a film offers is the sight of Dennis Farina in drag, you can't expect much.
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Chicago Tribune Mark Caro
Some actors steal scenes. Tom Green just gives them a bad odor. This self-infatuated goofball is far from the only thing wrong with the clumsy comedy.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
A few early laughs scattered around a plot as thin as it is repetitious. There's talent in this picture, both before and behind the camera, but virtually none of it gets on the screen.
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Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Like Adam Sandler's "Mr. Deeds," this is a hybrid, hipster-cornball movie that wants to celebrate common folk but unapologetically uses words like "trailer trash" to describe them.
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
It has no edge, no hunger to be better than it is. It ambles pleasantly through its inanity, like a guest happy to be at a boring party.
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Entertainment Weekly Bruce Fretts
It doesn't help that most of the jokes (like a rip-off of ''There's Something About Mary'''s dog-in-the-crotch bit) are themselves stolen.
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
What we have is the case of a movie with a straight man (Jason Lee) who really is funny, but with a comic (Tom Green) who sadly isn't.
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New York Daily News Jack Mathews
The question is, how did the producers get the amiable, talented Jason Lee to Boogie Board down the toilet with (Green)?
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
It's so bad that you have to wonder whether Tom Green was looking for a project to match last year's "Freddy Got Fingered" -- Green didn't direct this turkey, but it surely is a contender for the bottom of the barrel award for 2002.
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