The New Guy Reviews

The New Guy Review
by Susan Granger (Rating: 3/10)
Susan Granger's review of "THE NEW GUY" (Columbia Pictures/Revolution Studios) What a waste of time and money! This rip-off of every teen movie you've ever seen centers on Dizzy Gillespie Harrison (DJ Qualls). Known as Diz, he's a nerdy...more

The New Guy Review
by Norm Schrager (Rating: 1/5)
When the screenwriter responsible for one of the worst movies of one year directs an equally miserable film the following year, you’d have a hard time believing it was just coincidence. But Ed Decter, writer of the horribly unfunny Freddie Prinze Jr....more

The New Guy Review
by JoBlo (Rating: 3/10)
PLOT: A nerd who constantly gets ragged on at school is taught to be a "cool" guy by a prison inmate whom he meets, well...in jail. How did he get in jail? I have no idea! Anyway, he gets into a new school soon thereafter, and with his new look and new...more

The New Guy Review
by Laura Clifford (Rating: D)
Dizzy Gillespie Harrison (D.J. Qualls, "Road Trip") is the biggest loser at Rocky Creek High. He's been tied up in a dress with fake rubber breasts and left in the school corridors and suffered the permanent rearrangement of his male member at the...more

The New Guy Review
by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 1/4)
THE NEW GUY, directed by David Kendall (one of THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY's writers), is a throwaway teen comedy starring DJ Qualls from ROAD TRIP. Although it starts off so bad that you feel like running out screaming -- Is an 80-year-old librarian...more

The New Guy Review
by Robin Clifford (Rating: D)
Dizzy Gillespie Harrison (DJ Qualls) is on the bottom rung of school society at Rock Creek High. He's a blip so small that he doesn't even show up on the student social radar - except to be the subject of the cool kids' abuse. He comes up with a plan to...more