For all that he's allowed himself to be typecast, for all of the irritating voices that he's leaned on, and for all of the questionable material that he's headlined (a category to which this film must unfortunately be added), there's something to be said for Sean William Scott. He may never stray too far from his star-making role as Stiffler in American Pie, but there's a disconcerting genuineness to him that allows him to comfortably fill in roles that most actors would stumble through even if written specifically for them. It's almost solely to his credit that American Loser works as well as it does (which is still only sporadically and weakly), or that the romance between his learning-disabled former alcoholic and Gretchen Mol is at all convincing. In fact, it almost works too well, exposing the other fallacies of Loser more nakedly than if it had not worked at all; namely,...
- 9/29/2011
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
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