
Samantha (a dork) is in love with Payton (another dork) who is in love with Carrie (a cheerleader), who dates Clark (the football captain). When Clark seeks out Payton for secret comic book lessons, Payton sees his chance to be with Carrie. But Carrie's more interested in setting Payton up with Samantha.... (Full plot summary below)
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Samantha (a dork) is in love with Payton (another dork) who is in love with Carrie (a cheerleader), who dates Clark (the football captain). When Clark seeks out Payton for secret comic book lessons, Payton sees his chance to be with Carrie. But Carrie's more interested in setting Payton up with Samantha.
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| Los Angeles TimesAnnlee EllingsonJohnny Severin and Nicholas David Brandt's otherwise clever and original script takes an unexpected turn at nearly every intersection, resulting in a funny and big-hearted coming-of-age romance. |
| It's Just MoviesRon WilkinsonIf you are ready for some laughs and almost inhumanly able to go along with the jokes, you will chuckle now and then in spite of yourself. |
| VarietyScott FoundasWinning performances by a number of fresh-faced newcomers are almost but not quite enough to recommend The Secret Lives of Dorks, a fitfully amusing, more often shrill and overstated teen comedy that, like its dweeby protagonist, tries too hard to impress. |
| Common Sense MediaS. Jhoanna RobledoTedious teen comedy hits every high school clique cliche. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohAnother entry in the "Why Should We Care?" department, The Secret Lives of Dorks feels like something we have all been through too many times before. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckA formulaic comedy that displays as much subtlety as its title. |
| The DissolveNoel MurrayIt has a good heart and a good cast, mixing Hollywood veterans with some of today’s better young TV stars. But the movie is strenuously, exhaustingly unfunny, in a way that makes its phoniness harder to bear. |
| The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloIt’s arguable that the jocks and cheerleaders are this movie’s true heroes, without whom those pathetic dorks would never be able to find one another. |
| Village VoiceChris PackhamThe Secret Lives of Dorks, starring Jim Belushi, is, well, the Jim Belushi of high-school romantic comedies: indifferent, kind of exhausted. |
| The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThere’s no way to prepare yourself for how awful The Secret Lives of Dorks is. |