Critical Reception
Critics gave mixed reviews to the film, with a "Rotten" score of 56% on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, and its consensus reading: " unoriginal and unremarkable high school satire adds little to the genre." However the audience (70% from 117,000 voters) liked it.
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