Kickin’ It Old Skool

Kickin’ It Old Skool

Jamie Kennedy sucks, no he sucks badly. I can’t believe how badly this guy ruins a movie. After the Son of the Mask, no one should have ever given him another movie or TV show. The guy is unable to be funny in any way or shape. In Old Skool, Jamie does his old act of acting like a white rapper, but this time he’s a dancer. Wasn’t this played to death in Malibu’s Most Wanted? We get it, Jamie, you like rap music and ‘acting like a street hood’. Stick a camera in your face and film it as youtube clip. Oh, wait you’ve already did that. Listen, I know I’m attacking Kennedy pretty hard, but I blame him for this mess of a film. It is a shit film with a shit actor.

The actual concept of the movie could have made for a wonderfully funny movie. However, the writing is so bad that they set up a funny scene and ruin it with a stupid payoff. Kennedy receives a head injury while performing a dance move and is thrown into a coma. He wakes up exactly 20 years later. This was where the funny was supposed to go. Instead, we get scenes that go on for far too long and jokes that go nowhere.

Yeah, there are a ton of 80s jokes and references, but most of them fall flat. Then there are the unfunny cameos. Yeah, David Hasselhoff has an appearance, but unlike his other appearances in recent movies, it isn’t even funny. Plus, we get yet another appearance by KITT. However, the same damn joke was done on The Benchwarmers, and that movie actually got the guy that did the voice of the KITT from show to reprise his role.

This movie doesn’t even try to be funny. Don’t even bother renting this movie to make fun of it. Jamie Kennedy should never do anything ever again.

Grade: D-

(Note: I did like the Alan Ruck cameo with him doing a reprisal of sorts of his Frye character from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It is Cameron Frye, but his last name is spelled differently. He even mentions his accident with his father’s car!)

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Actually, those clips of him drunk or high on Youtube are far better than his appearance here in this film.

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Is he farting in their faces? BTW, a bum pees on those guys in the background. I'm not making it up.