School for Scoundrels [HD DVD]

School for Scoundrels [HD DVD]
by Todd Phillips

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Actor: Billy Bob Thornton, Jacinda Barrett, Jon Heder, Michael Clarke Duncan, Sarah Silverman
Director: Todd Phillips
Brand: Dimension
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Weinstein Company

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Movie Review: Let this Bomb Lie and Get the Original
Summary: 1 Stars

This is a god-awful remake of a brilliantly funny British comedy from 1960 of the same name School for Scoundrels starring the hilariously subtle Alastair Simm as the professor. Simm as "Potter" guides his students through the art of "one-upsmanship" by subtly undermining them, making them ill at ease, and feeling inadequate while maintaining the demeanor and guise of being a perfect gentleman at all times. Billy Bob's mean, paint-balling, yelling jackass Bad Santa rehash just doesn't compare . . . Please, check out the original-- don't waste your time on this Dog!!!!!

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School for Scoundrels is the kind of stupid-fun comedy for which the phrase "Wait for the DVD" was invented. Like a lot of its jokes, it fell flat in its brief theatrical release, but there's enough funny stuff here to warrant a look, especially if you enjoyed writer-director Todd Phillips' previous films Old School and Road Trip. Of course, Phillips also directed the comedy remake of Starsky and Hutch, so you know there's going to be as many misses as hits in the movie's constant barrage of slapstick, insults, and tasteless gags. Loosely inspired by the 1960 British comedy directed by Robert Hamer, this crudely Americanized version finds a meek and geeky parking-meter reader named Roger (Napoleon Dynamite's John Heder) looking for love and not getting any, so he enrolls in a confidence-building school led by Dr. P (Billy Bob Thornton), who turns out to be Roger's #1 rival in his quest to win the heart of Amanda (Jacinda Barrett), Roger's cute Australian neighbor and the would-be girl of his dreams. As an escalating war of one-upmanship in which Roger's quick learning provokes Dr. P's competitive instincts, School for Scoundrels isn't exactly a laff-riot, but it's got some aces up its sleeve that make it worthwhile, like a crazed appearance by Ben Stiller, a fun if not-always-funny supporting cast (Michael Clark Duncan, Horatio Sanz, Todd Louiso) and a pair of stars who work well together as comedic opposites in the game of love. --Jeff Shannon

Dimension School For Scoundrels: Ball Buster Edition (Unrated) - HD-DVD
Jon Heder ("Napoleon Dynamite") andBilly Bob Thornton ("Bad Santa") face off in this"devilishly funny comedy" (Jeffrey Lyons, NBC's "Reel Talk") by writer/director Todd Phillips ("OldSchool", "Starsky & Hutch"). When unlucky loser Roger (Heder) takes a confidence-building class taught by an egomaniacal teacher (Thornton), the two are pitted in an outrageous battle to determine the ultimate guy's guy. When the rivalry spirals uproariously out of control, no prank is too extreme,no insult is over the line, and nothing is off limits.

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