1. Starting with the fact that its "high school students" look closer to 30 than 16, John Tucker Must Die is a film out of joint.
2. In the typical vein of high school teen movies full of joie de vivre, John Tucker Must Die is unadulterated fluff. Derivative but somewhat amusing.
3. [A] tart-tongued mediocrity.
4. John Tucker Must Die isn't half bad. It's about two-fifths bad, mostly toward the incoherent ending, but that ratio is... well, not bad.
5. There's something mildly charming about this cheerful revenge comedy's lack of any straightforward moral agenda.
6. This one is like watching 100 minutes of acne.
7. Hopeful cinephiles might long for pitch-black satire a la Heathers ... but this by-the-book high school revenge comedy has the spine of a wet ramen noodle.
8. ... it's so tediously formulaic, it never feels like more than a fourth-generation photocopy of the John Hughes template.
9. ... a teen payback comedy that squanders any potential it might have had on the altar of that all-important teen desire: It wants us to think it's cute.
10. This idiotic teen comedy settles for being silly and cutesy when just a little bit of snarkiness (a la Mean Girls) could have saved it.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?
This derivitive teen comedy tries to go for cute when it could use more bite.