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It's one thing to have a realistic ugly kid who has a good heart, but the kid starring in this film is a loser with no redeeming qualities. He's not a sympathetic character at all. In fact, he's quite annoying and I watched the film in its entirety hoping bad things would happen to him. It would be one thing if they film didn't want you to root for him and was meant only to be a realistic portrayal of the misery of junior high. But unfortunately the misguided director thinks that this character is someone we want to see win. A much funnier and unflinchingly realistic film of the same subject matter can be found in "Welcome to the Dollhouse."

I could follow five losers from my high school around for a couple of hours and be more entertained. An "off-air" screen with the colored bars is Oscar-worthy compared to this tripe. The dialogue was too dumb to even be considered cliched. A scene where Charlie Sheen and his buddy are shooting a cannon while quoting lines from Apocalypse Now could have been salvaged if the buddy's dad was Robert Duvall. And the casting of Chris Macdonald and Charlie Sheen as high school buddies is pretty unrealistic unless Macdonald flunked ten grades...Check out "Beautiful Girls" for a worthwhile dramady about reconnecting with high school buddies to escape contemplating commitment.