It’s a formula for laughter when a brilliant college student discovers the school is using him and his brainiac friends to develop secret weapons! Kilmer stars as the rebel who befriends a young genius. Together they embark in a quest to get to the bottom of the school’s plot.
Martha Coolidge –Director
Brian Grazer – Producer
Neal Israel – Screenwriter
Pat Proft – Screenwriter
Peter Torokvei – Screenwriter
Reviews Counted: 23
Rotten: The humor is relentlessly cruel, smug, and disconnected from any sense of how human beings might behave in similar situations.
-Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader, May 30, 2007Rotten: The movie gets stuck as a run-of-the-mill teen revenge comedy.
-, Film4, May 30, 2007Fresh: What lifts the production above the run-of-the-mill is swift direction by Martha Coolidge, who has a firm grasp over the manic material.
-, Variety, May 30, 2007Fresh: It does make you wonder if the drive of the US education system is ultimately to develop better weapons of mass-destruction, though Coolidge's movie is too hazily good-natured to capitalise on the tougher aspects of the material.
-Geoff Andrew, Time Out, June 24, 2006