Chirphymium
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
Invaderbank
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
AshUnow
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
martin-disobey
This definitely deserves a much better score than a 5.4/10. I was expecting a less-than-average generic teen movie, but it was definitely more than that. Although the plot is a little predictable, there is a lot of great character development. This movie also sympathizes with college students that feel so out of place. This is more than just another teen movie and deserves more attention.
lorcan-61881
Loser is a American,cheesy 2000 comedy film starring Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari. The film centers on two people Paul and Dora,Paul is an awkward nerd trying to make friends after just getting into a college with his sex,party freaked maniac roommates while Dora is a girl who dates her professor and desperately needs money. Soon the two meet and form a friendship that soon turns into a love relationship. This film was a really fun,college film from Amy Heckerling(Clueless,European Vacation). Biggs and Suvari fitted very well as this socially awkward couple. Everything about this film I liked so much!! Loser you just have to see,you have to see!! Please watch this film if you love early 2000 comedy movies with cheesy teens and teen music!!
Python Hyena
Loser (2000): Dir: Amy Heckerling / Cast: Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Greg Kinnear, Thomas Sadoski, Jimmi Simpson: Title is a misdirection since the so-called loser is actually a smart. Jason Biggs arrives in New York to attend college but his roommates dislike him because he studies. They scam him into another dorm but buddy up to him in order to have a narcotics party. Biggs meets Mena Suvari in a class and they strike up a friendship then he invites her to a concert. She has a relationship with a professor who uses her for sex while embarrassing her in class. When Biggs returns after being stood up he encounters the result of a party plus Suvari passed out in the washroom after drinking what she believed was juice. She cannot see the obvious even when they both deliver kittens together. Outcome is predictable and humour fades quickly. Directed by Amy Heckerling who made the teen masterpiece Fast Times at Ridgemont High as well as the popular and also superior Clueless but she provides none of that observation here. This film is clueless in ways that are exact opposite to the Alicia Silverstone flick. Biggs is totally flat his relationship with Suvari is uninspiring. She at least had a back story until the boring romance over birthed kittens occurs. Greg Kinnear plays a lousy stereotypical professor completely one note. Boring teen comedy misses the mark and becomes just what the title indicates. Score: 1 / 10
BlueFairyBlog
Amy Heckerling doesn't quite know what kind of audience she is trying to engage. If she's trying to show high school kids the problems and unexpected strife of college life in a metropolis, then she should have shown that world in a more focused way. If she's trying to be funny and quirky for the older subset than her characters should have been better written and less dickish. Besides being clinically underwritten, it's difficult to figure out who is the lead character, or at least the person we're supposed to sympathize with. Throughout the film we follow Paul (Biggs) and it seems that he is our protagonist. We feel for him when his dorm mates are mean spirited, when the girl of his dreams is misguided, and when everything tries to keep him from getting through school, but he lacks character development. He goes through hard times, but there's no resolution to be seen, and he doesn't change at all. Dora (Suvari) on the other hand has a mess of bad things happen to her, and then she changes her opinion about her relationship with her professor (Kinnear), which means she's the only character who evolves throughout the film. It seems that we should be following her, but then interwoven in her tale is that of Paul's, who just seems like some poor schmuck who never wins. Without any proper direction for our characters, and no change in their behaviors or thoughts on the world, there shouldn't really be any reason for this film to exist. It's trying to show the problems of college students, but it doesn't realistically depict them. Paul's three roommates are also pretty distracting, as they're rich, sycophantic rapists, who don't seem to get much comeuppance until the credits. Besides its plot defects it's also drab and very of its time, making this film a tiring slog.
