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The greatest movie ever made..!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

The New Guy (2002): Dir: Ed Decter / Cast: DJ Qualls, Eddie Griffin, Eliza Dushku, Zooey Deschanel, Lyle Lovett: Comedy about transformation and by its conclusion viewers may wish that it took the form of a better film. DJ Qualls plays a school nerd who is bullied to the point that he attempts expulsion. Why he is sent to prison for this is beyond me but he is trained by Eddie Griffin in the art of intimidation. Now he is enrolled in a new school with a brand new outlook. He goes through the predictable clichés of gaining interest of the school slut and bully's girlfriend. Directed by Ed Decter with amusing references to Patton and Braveheart. Qualls does what he can with otherwise predictable material. We know that he will face his oppressors and conquer and none of it amounts to chalk board dust. Griffin narrates for reasons unclear. He will school Quall in the art of rebellion. Eliza Dushku plays the girlfriend with the personality of a paper bag. Zooey Deschanel also appears as one of Quall's friends who has "unnoticed girlfriend potential" written all over her. This is unfortunate since she is totally hot. Lyle Lovett makes a wasted appearance to remind us that his career is dying rapidly. Theme regards acceptance and fitting in as well as standing up for yourself, which everyone can relate too but the screenplay needed transformation to match and it fails to do so. Score: 5 ½ / 10

It's amazing what I'll allow myself to watch, isn't it? The New Guy lies comfortably at the bottom of the barrel in terms of comedic teenage-fare. Its jokes are tired, its sight gags consistently unimpressive, and its story only elevated by the capable performance of DJ Qualls. You may remember him; that geeky, weird looking kid from Road Trip? His only starring role is unfortunately a film infested with dead end clichés and stale jokes so powerful they could taint a resume for decades.Qualls plays a high school senior named Dizzy, he's the stereotypical nerd who plays in a funk band and is treated with torment day in and day out at his high school. One day, Dizzy becomes involved in a little situation at school. Long story short, the poor guy's innocuous erection when talking to the pretty cheerleader leads to the librarian breaking his penis and sending him into a never-ending sea of embarrassment. For no real reason, loopier than all hell on prescription drugs, Dizzy intrudes on a church sermon at a local mall and is sent to prison.In prison, Dizzy meets Luther (Eddie Griffin), a man who understands the position the poor sap is in and wants to help him out. Dizzy winds up expelled from his old high school and winds up taking advice from Luther on how to be hip and cool. He gives him a makeover and renames him "Gil Harris," as he attends the school run by preppy girls and jocks, East Highland High. He quickly sets his sights on school cheerleader Danielle (Eliza Dushku), and quickly learns the only way to leave an impression is to be a jerk, so that's exactly what he does.One thing I truly need to admire about The New Guy is its lack of ambition. It's hard to find a film from the last few years that seems to be as inert and as lifeless as this one. From its drab title, to its cloyingly bland poster, contrived setup, stock characters that can be described and summed up in one word, unfathomable plot points, and a barrage of other things, it's almost as if the executives behind the picture told Columbia Pictures that they wanted to fund, produce, create, and distribute one of the most boring and listless examples of teenage banal.And they succeeded. Not only does the film make us sit through ninety-three tedious minutes of clichés and dead-ends, it also shortchanges the comic ability of its headlining actor, Eddie Griffin, by giving him virtually zero screen time. The man shows up at leisure, pulls off the ominous prisoner with little convincing charisma, and seems to appear and reappear at convenience.As stated before, DJ Qualls is an underrated talent, unfortunately confined to a supporting role more often than not or simply not recognized at all. This is tragic but also apparent when you have mediocre comedies existing on your resume in place of successful, possibly defining staples. If we were to compare The New Guy to, say, Stealing Harvard, you'd have to resort to the political method of picking the lesser of the two evils. If you compared it to the nineties icon Slacker, well, you'd be comparing art and trash.Starring: DJ Qualls, Eddie Griffin, Eliza Dushku, and Zooey Deschanel. Directed by: Ed Decter.

Randomly, I select a film from on-demand, and we are off and running.As the film starts I can see the production values are average at best. Then we have a young man dancing like James brown - which, in hind-site, may be the funniest thing about this piece of junk.'The New Guy' features DJ Qualls. DJ leaves a lot to be desired as an actor. He fits the dork mold perfectly, but struggles when it comes to tying this film together. Qualls plays the picked-on nerd with only a small group of friends. In an effort to escape his terrible high school life he gets expelled, jailed, and learns how to be a tough guy from Eddie Griffin. Griffin's part is far too small to save this film. It's almost as if the director slapped 10K on the table and said we need you Eddie for 10 minutes of footage and a cover shot. We'll have you out of here by 5pm. Sellout!Qualls re-enlists at a new school to establish his alternate ego. This is the point, right at the beginning, where this film goes south, and fast. The films biggest issue is it's complete lack of realism. This genre has been done before with much more care(see Phil Joanou's '3 O'Clock High'). Some of the gags in this film are so utterly ridiculous that you can barely keep your eyes on the screen. They'll, more likely, be rolling, as if to say, "Oh My God".The romance between Qualls and a cheerleader at his new school lacks any depth whatsoever, and both actors make this aspect of the film, useless. I'll give it 4 stars for the revenge factor, which is always a crowd pleaser, and for the cameo's, which were fun and frequent, but 'The New Guy' is NOT a good movie, and, I suppose, that most of the positive reviews are coming from the 13-16 year old demographic.I will never recommend this film, and I will never watch it again.36/100

DJ Qualls and Eliza Dushku make an "interesting" on-screen duo (and later couple) in this all American style comedy that is oriented for a teen audience.Sure, there are many clichés but you can forget about them in order to have a "decent" time.The movie is about a geeky, loser student that gets bullied all the time and could never get any girls. So he changes to another high school and invents himself a new cool, badass, groovy attitude that convinces everyone (except the popular male studs) that he's really cool.With his new attitude, he starts dating -sort of- the hottest cheerleader in school and that's just enough to make him change for bad because now he dismisses his old friends and his personality is now really annoying.Things get really ugly when the popular male students from his new college investigate about his past and discover that he was a terrible loser...Watch the rest and expect interesting things with a message.Eliza Dushku never looked this hot. I mean, her body is just spectacular and is enough reason to watch the movie. She's unbelievable hot believe me, if not, watch the scenes where she's trying on some skimpy, raunchy bikinis.DJ Qualls is really funny this time.Anyways watch this movie if you are in the mood for a predictable but funny teen comedy with some decent spoofs ("Patton" for example).