Underclassman

Name: Underclassman
Director: Marcos Siega
Released: 2005

Synopsis

A young detective goes undercover at an elite private school to destroy an international stolen car ring.

50
Washington Post
If you saw "21 Jump Street" back in the '80s, or any of a number of shows featuring cute and cuddly cops, you pretty much know where this flick is heading.
40
Dallas Observer
Some fairly standard shenanigans ensue, and when the clichéd high school culture clash stuff stops, there's clichéd cop movie stuff going on.
38
Charlotte Observer
Utterly generic.
30
The Hollywood Reporter
Nick Cannon, playing an L.A. cop who goes undercover as a prep school student, provides the few sparks this wan action-comedy can muster.
30
Variety
So far-fetched as to make "Kindergarten Cop" look comparatively austere.
25
Entertainment Weekly
The loserville teen comedy Underclassman is like a student project sloppily cribbed from other kids' notes -- kids who have seen "Rush Hour" and still can't get over how funny it is to stick a noisy black guy in a distinctly nonblack setting.
25
Chicago Tribune
What's remarkable is how absolutely every character in the film is a movie cliche.
25
Chicago Sun-Times
Underclassman doesn't even try to be good. It knows that it doesn't have to be. It stars Nick Cannon, who has a popular MTV show, and it's a combo cop movie, romance, thriller and high school comedy. That makes the TV ads a slam dunk; they'll generate a Pavlovian response in viewers conditioned to react to their sales triggers (smartass young cop, basketball, sexy babes, fast cars, mockery of adults).