Who’s in it: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert (above), Paul Dinello, Deborah Rush, Maria Thayer, Carlo Alban, Gregory Holliman, Matthew Broderick, Dan Hedaya, Ian Holm, Sarah Jessica Parker, Philip Seymour Hoffman
What it’s about: A prequel to Comedy Central’s 1999 series in which Jerri Blank (Sedaris) comes home from the slammer to find her dad comatose. The 47-year-old ex-con/junkie/hooker attends Flatpoint High and enters a science fair believing that winning it will bring him back to consciousness.
Worth watching? (star)(star) 1/2
“The ‘SWC’ movie plays like a lot of dumb teen comedies. It’s smarter than average some of the time, and it can be rather more subversive than the usual nerds-vs.-jocks exercise. But its comedic grade point average is pretty much locked in C territory.”