at least the 7.4 rating is funny

Rating: 3/10 (15 July 2012)

this is an objectively abysmal movie, there's just no way around that. it isn't even mildly funny unless you're maybe 6 or 7 years old. although jonah hill certainly has his awkward teen schtick down, the movie is just a bad rehash of what's been done a billion times before but with new people. no one expects these dime-a-dozen summer teen flicks to break new ground all the time but jeez, at least try to make something marginally entertaining since not all moviegoers are 10-year-olds.
I should've stayed away based on the red flags so it's not like I wasn't warned. usually though when your expectations are so low it's hard to be let down but they did it with this one. I never saw the TV show and don't even know if that was a comedy so it's not like I'm comparing this to memories of that. I thought jonah hill was fairly awesome in superbad (a close 2nd after mclovin) and liked him in the russell brand English rocker movie. but I saw the high IMDb rating on this one (7.4 or something like that) and figured I was missing a new napoleon dynamite or something.
wrong. in the real world this movie is a 3 or 4 at best. maybe sit through the whole thing on a dare but for anyone else you'll do more yawning and checking your watch than laughing or even cracking a smile for that matter.