Loser

Rating:
Summary: Not a classic, but very cute//
Review: Okay so its not a classic ingenious story, and its not break out funny like american pie, but i thought the movie was cute. Jason Biggs plays Paul, a kid who just left a small town to go to college to find the big city full of inpersonal uncaring people. Paul is a big clutz and a loser, but he is such a sweetie. Jason biggs does a good job playing a loser. Mena Suvari i really liked as the character of Dora. She's nice and knows how to have fun without spending 30$. There is a good chemistry between Biggs and Suvari more likely due to the fact they worked toghether before. Greig Kinnear plays the unlikable boyfriend professor. The story is somewhat funny, but it's mostly a romance film. Almost no romance films have too much creativity but for being a teen movie this one does a pretty good job. by the end you will be saying "awww, wasn't that cute". I thought the movie did a decent job of not being the typical teenage love story. All and all a pretty good movie.

Rating:
Summary: 3 1/2 STARS...FOR A CHARMING MOVIE
Review: I have been reading the reviews here, and I guess this movie was not received very well. I thought it was a cute, charming, comedy with romance thrown in. The film stars Jason Biggs as Paul, fresh from American Pie, and Mena Suvari as Dora, who was covered in rose petals in American Beauty. They are being portrayed as the "Losers" of the film, but after watching the roommates who tortured Paul for not being like them and for having a girl pay attention to him without help from a PILL slipped into her drink, we all find out who the real losers are.

Greg Kinnear plays the professor that Dora is having an affair with, just so she can have a residence. He doesn't end up being a very good guy in this film, which is what I was used to seeing him as, but he does a good job in his role.

While this isn't one of the best movies of the year, it had some charm to it and I recommend it for a romantic comedy rental..A good date movie.

Rating:
Summary: This movie is lame
Review: gay, stupid, boring, pitiful
however you wann put it
but i have one word to describe this movie
that word is "lame"

Rating:
Summary: Cute and entertaining
Review: I rented this movie on a snowy day along with several other films and was pleasantly surprised. I was looking for something light and fun and that is exactly what I got.

Jason Biggs, who played the charming but goofy lead in American Pie, is Paul a guy who moves from the mid-west to New York City to go to College and is immeadiately overwhelmed by "city" life. His roomates are horrible and only add to his inability to fit in.

In class Paul meets Dora, Mena Suvari - who was also in American Pie as well as American Beauty. As Paul gets to know Dora he begins to see that life in the big city is not all bad. Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari and Greg Kinnear were all good in this movie - the plot was not as strong as most of Amy Heckerling's past high school type comedy's such as Fast Time or Clueless but this film was still cute.

Loser would make a cute date film or would be good when you are looking for something light.

Rating:
Summary: Better than usual teen movie
Review: A couple of years ago, Heckerling made critics stand up and take notice of teen movies once again with her fantastically witty, funny 'Clueless'. Her next movie, 'Loser', seemed to go by pretty much unnoticed, surprising really given the director's and actors' credentials. Basically this is a cute movie that is above average. It's about a smalltown guy named Paul (Jason Biggs) who goes to university and finds out that everything he feared about university was true; he doesn't have any friends, finds it difficult to cope with the work etc. Then he meets Dora (Mena Suvari), a grungy student that's carrying out an affair with one of her tutors (Greg Kinnear). And so it goes as Paul tries to get the unattainable girl.

First of all, there's much about this film to admire, and it's mostly cliché-free. First of all there are the actors: Jason Biggs plays basically the same guy as he did in 'American Pie' so well, the goofy but loveable geek. There's also Suvari, of 'American Beauty' fame, who is just fantastic in this role as an angst-ridden teen trying to make ends meet. The supporting cast are also impressive. It's also funny in several bits, and not in an obvious way - this is a movie whose characters almost seem to revel in their own oddities. We've got Dora funding her course through harvesting her eggs and Paul teaching her the finer points of catching food in your mouth.

However, the movie eventually goes for the easy option, straying into the territory of dreary teen movies like 'She's All That'. Dora is never really that unattainable, we're assured that her boyfriend is a bad person by his obvious affairs and at the end Paul has a sudden transformation - look what a haircut can do to a person, not only can it boost your confidence but it can also transform you into the leading-man within. Until the end though, it's a cute, witty little movie. Just miss off the last five minutes and you'll be fine.

Rating:
Summary: Great Date Movie!!
Review: This movie is really great to go see on a date or to rent for a date, to stay in all night! I love the humor in this movie and the cast was well chosen! I recommend this to anyone who wants a good laugh!
***Check it out!!***

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: I took a date to see this movie and we ended up staring at each other saying....what the? For a date movie this was a wierd one. Biggs plays a dweeb again but this time doesn't have his support system around him like he did in American Pie. Instead he has 2 freaky roommates who border on criminals (they use date rape drugs?) and nobody to help him out.
The professor and college student romance is equally creepy. The whole movie is so dysfunctional that I cringed so often my back hurt. There is zero chemistry between biggs and suvari. Its more like she pitied him more than anything else.

Rating:
Summary: Loser
Review: Loser is by far one of my favorite movies. I remember that there were only 3 other people in the theater when I saw it, though. I definitly does not get the attention it deserves. It's a cute story about a small town boy who moves to the big city, and he falls for the independent girl on the way. The movie is rather predictible as most teen movies are, but it a really funny and cute look at college life in NYC.

Rating:
Summary: A Movie Worth Buying
Review: I will begin by saying that this movie by no means touches on a new plot. The 'geek' boy falls in love with the alternative girl, while she's already fallen for someone else, who is a complete jerk. Of course, they end up together in the end. However, most movies are bought for the newness, the originality, and are watched once or twice and forgotten on a dusty shelf. This movie captures attention through other avenues. The characters are charming, and everyone will relate to this movie, and say 'hey, that sounds like someone I know'. Ths soundtrack is fabulous, and the movie includes a segment of a live performance by Everclear, that, although short, is very impressive. My advice: Rent this. If you like it the first time you see it, then proceed to buy it, because you always will. If you're not keen on it, then don't bother.

Rating:
Summary: A Student's Apartment
Review: I admit it, I love that movie, and it's been so ever since I saw it for the first time in theaters. If I acted like a proper reviewer and kept a more critical edge to my review, it would get only 4 stars though. It is a pretty good movie, a tremendously "cute" romantic comedy. The actors are not taking themselves too seriously (which is important in such a film) while getting the viewer to care for them. Amy Heckerling's dialogue is perfect for a romantic teen comedy. The only problem is that it doesn't live up to its spiritual predecessor, Billy Wilder's "The Apartment". It brings a nice twist, but it doesn't have as much symbolism as Wilder's. While "The Apartment" stays a great classic due to its depiction of the post-war, consumerism era, it seems that "Loser" has no dense message other than go-for-the-nice-guy. All I'm saying is that while it is a fun, nice comedy, it doesn't have as much impact as its predecessor. But you should definitely check it out, it's worth it.