Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another, starting when his application is rejected after his dim-witted guidance counselor sends in the wrong form.
One of the smartest idiotic teen comedies you'll ever see.
– Paul Tatara,
CNN.com,
18 Jan 2002
rotten:
Strictly a vanity vehicle with a mess of star babies on board.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
22 Jan 2002
rotten:
[T]oo many of these gross out scenes...
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
24 Jan 2002
rotten:
The urine-quaffing gags and hearty barfing asides are the lowbrow price extracted for...gestures towards semi-intelligence.
– Trevor Johnston,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
rotten:
[Kasdan] and White aim very low here and fail to take advantage of the abundant opportunities for social satire that its upper class and academic settings provide.