Dizzy Harrison (DJ Qualls) and his friends Nora (Zooey Deschanel),Kirk (Jerod Mixon) and Glen (Parry Shen) are in a garage band and seniors in high school. They are also outcasts. Dizzy especially is picked on and he even has his penis broken. He gets arrested and befriends fellow inmate Luther (Eddie Griffin) who teaches him the ways of the prison. Back in school, he gets himself expelled and transfers to a new school. Using a new name Gil Harris and new attitude, he's cool and just got out of prison. He's the popular New Guy and attracts the attention of cheerleader Danielle (Eliza Dushku).
I like DJ and I don't mind the cliché teen story. It's just too silly to be taken seriously. Some of the story doesn't make sense even if a wide latitude is given. I'm not looking for a masterpiece of writing but it needs to be better. It's also not funny. The comedy is so broad that it really doesn't work. I kinda like the actors but the movie is too stupid to recommend.
The New Guy
2002
Action / Comedy
The New Guy
2002
Action / Comedy
Plot summary
Dizzy Harrison is an unpopular, high school geek going through a hellish senior year. In an attempt to make a new identity for himself, Dizzy gets himself expelled from his high school, learns the techniques of being cool from a prison inmate, and enrolls at a new high school under the alias Gil Harris, to make new friends where he soon gains respect from the jocks and geeks alike. Dizzy then gets noticed by the head cheerleader, Danielle, and helps the school football team gain self-respect to win games. But things unknowingly begin to turn sour when Danielle's disgruntled boyfriend begins investigating into "Gil Harris." past to uncover any beef on him to ruin his entire life and turn it upside down.
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too silly, too broad, too convoluted
The loser's dreamshow
While I am not sure a dreamshow for a loser, much like the one played by DJ Qualls in The New Guy, would involve wearing an afro wig at the age of eight and dancing like James Brown, getting his member whacked by the school librarian or getting lectured on becoming a popular student by a inmate pl1ayed by Eddie Griffin, it might involve being popular in some form. Because while this film does pose as a comedy, gross out and stupid most of the time with the most effective gags in the prison scenes (and where did Henry Rollins come from?),there is heart somewhere in here, a sense of trying to succeed in the mind of a geek who is the precise son look alike of Lyle Lovett. The film seems tailor made actually for the popular kids of high schools, and for the other kids well, it's the drama of the year. I'm not sure quite what to make of it, but it might serve some use for fans of Braveheart and Patton. B- or C+
Who's da bitch now?
Does the loser always have to win in the movies. You know that doesn't happen in real life. The bully reigns supreme in high school and always will.
OK, we suspend believe for 88 minutes and cheer on DJ Qualls, who was great in Hustle and Flow, and not too bad here as the nerd who went to prison and learned how to rock.
I swear that i didn't drool over Eliza Dushku in Race the Sun, but I did here. She may have been playing a High School Cheerlear, but she's 22, so drooling is OK.
Lots of cameos including Christa Campbell as Tommy Lee's girlfriend. You know that's why I tuned in.