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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeels a bit like a missed opportunity. It's too bad the motion picture as a whole isn't as quirky and clever as its double-edged title.
- 60VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerWith intermittently amusing glee, writer-director Ryan Shiraki's tyro film, Freshman Orientation, frolics through the political minefields of a typical college campus.
- 50L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyIt isn’t particularly funny. Mocking lesbians for bad bongo-beating poetry, for instance, just ain’t fresh, interesting or even especially offensive.
- An uneven coming-of-age comedy.
- 50New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickCrude and cheerfully sophomoric teen sex comedy.
- 50The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisOn one level, a stereotypical mash of Greek cruelty, queer poetry slams and rabid activist rhetoric. But beneath the tired crudeness and college-romp clichés, the movie is gently perceptive about the malleable nature of sexuality and the barriers we construct to hide our confusion.
- 38Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsFreshman Orientation is not incompetently made. Nor is it badly acted. But there’s not a fresh idea in it, and everyone on screen seems to be in a different comedy.
- 30Chicago ReaderChicago ReaderThis schizoid college comedy veers between gross-out humor and earnest coming-of-age drama.
- 25TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghFirst-time writer-director Ryan Shiraki's crude, gross comedy of campus sexual errors might push boundaries better were it not so painfully unfunny.