“The New Guy” And The Age Of Teenage Movies

I saw “The New Guy” and amazingly, for how bad it was, it made me laugh quite a bit. Ok, so maybe things like “plot” and “character development” and “realism” and even “quality dialogue” were either thrown out the window or dealt with in a sophomoric nonchalance that only a teenage viewer can enjoy. It was a fantasy and staying true to this premise, everything about this film was pretty unrealistic. The high school for example; what high school has a majority of the girl population looking like 26 year old super models? Or, how did the main character keep winding up in jail and then seemingly keeps getting out just as mysteriously. The film is nuts, with fast cuts, guitar infused funk riffs at the introduction of many characters, and random cameos from pop culture stars gone by like Vanilla Ice. “The New Guy” is just above your standard bubblegum teen movie, with its own twists, its own skewed perspective on high school life and thanks to a plethora of bathroom jokes and sexual inuendo, a few more laughs. Enjoy.

Updated: May 29, 2002 — 1:06 am