Evan (Jason Schwartzman) figures out that Dave (Devon Sawa), Sam (Jason Segal), and Jeff (Michael Maronna) are cheating on their college exams and uses this information to blackmail Dave into helping him win over the girl Evan is stalking (Jaime King). The plan falls apart when Dave starts falling for her.
This is a gross, lazy "comedy" that has nothing deeper to say. At least Accepted had a point to make about college curriculums being weighted against free expression. Slackers is just nihilism with a bouncy soundtrack. The characters sail through without expending any effort and whatever consequences they receive are handwaved off with more lying and fraud. This is the generation that came up with NFTs and Stable Diffusion.
Also, who in their right mind picks Jaime King (who I'm sure is nice but let's be real) when Laura Prepon is right there. RIGHT THERE. Avoid. It's currently streaming on Tubi.
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