I am a huge fan of the original Clowes comic strip this was supposedly based off of. And I am also a graduate of the art college system it parodies. So I was very excited when I heard about this movie. Then I saw it. What a misfire and waste of time! Art school has a TON of things to parody and a TON of b*llsh*t to expose. Why waste our time with this really LAME romance plot and really, REALLY LAME strangler junk? It was like some poorly written teen movie that had some of the dialog and text from the original Clowes strip just kind of shoe-horned in there to try and make it more "arty". The whole art school cliché crap was barely touched on. And when it WAS used, it came off very stiff and felt forced. I was bored, I didn't care about any of the very 2-dimensional characters, and while I got a slight chuckle from some of the art school stuff, it was nowhere near as big a part of the movie as it should have been. Go back and read the original comic strip if you want a razor-sharp rip of art school BS. Because you will definitely NOT find it in this movie.
Review of Art School Confidential
