Straight to the point: i know why people may hate this movie. Indeed, there are things in it that really get on your nerves. A condescending and annoying prick of a main character, pseudo-intellectual-and-insightful dialogues which actually make you cringe, and a camera-work so god-awful that you can't help thinking this movie was filmed by blind cripples who were holding a camera for the first time in their lives.But there's more to Roger Dodger than just an everlasting lust for sex and a race to get some. There are moments when you can actually see that even the most cynical and utilitarian people have a heart that can feel. And that sometimes it's much harder to open up and show the real yourself than you are used to thinking.Alone by themselves, the characters of Campbell Scott and Jesse Eisenberg may be pathetic, each in his own way. What makes this movie stand out is how well their extreme diversity and unlikelihood is played out when they are together. It's like the opposite forces of nature collide, producing an outcome that can never be predicted.Jesse Eisenberg did a brilliant job portraying a 16-year old boy who's desperate to find out what a woman's love feels like. Extremely believable in his naivety and all-goodness. I'm sure that almost anybody who wasn't instantly popular among the ladies in that age and had to work his way to the women's hearts can easily connect to the personality he displays. And that's another beautiful side of this film: that while Nick's supposed to be the student and Roger the mentor, it's actually the Nick's ways we see as the proper ones.Still, the movie plays it nice to everybody, not trying to demonize one character and make the other look like a saint. At the end we are given a chance to see some redeeming features even in those who might seem like a cause lost entirely. Which actually leaves some hope that maybe that tour de force wasn't such a bad and useless idea after all. And that was just the right thing to drive Roger Dodger home as a film leaving a pleasant aftertaste, which alone is enough to justify spending your time and effort to watch it. So don't be too judgemental too much in advance.

This movie starts interesting then takes a continuous downhill roll. My biggest irritation on movies is the sHaKy CaMeRa. I understand if a camera shakes in action scene or while people are moving…but this movie has the shaky camera when people are sitting at a table talking…man spend $50 and buy a camera tripod.The movie is filmed in New York by new yorkers and staring new Yorkers, so they will probably watch it to support their own no matter how bad this is. It is centered around Campbell Scott trying to mentor his virgin nephew (Jesse Eisenberg) on how to be a ladies man. Campbell Scott does a great job being a fast talking, irritating self proclaimed ladies man. Eisenberg plays his normal insecure stuttering self. Not even beautiful Jennifer Beals, Elizabeth Berkley, Morena Baccarin or Isabella Rossellini could provide enough eye candy to save this movie.The movie has a only a few minutes of clever man/woman behavior observations and pickup methods. Just about everything else will only get you slapped.

There are plenty of mini-synopses here, so I'll skip that part, and get directly onto the "viewers beware" section of this review.The acting is good, the sets were competent, and the direction was far better than the script deserved.The titular character, Roger, is intelligent, witty, and remarkably reprehensible - but then, guys who haunt the singles scene are. The scene in which he's coaching his nephew in the fine art of sneaking peeks at women is a perfect example of how this character epitomizes the worst view of men and their sexual urges. "Tie your shoe - there's no shame in falling back on an old standby"? Once he's actually talking with women, one begins to wonder how he's ever gotten through a night without wearing someone's drink - this level of casual, cheerful boorishness is remarkably rare and grating.I'd hoped that this would be a reasonably realistic look at the guys who view seduction as a sport - what it turned out to be was a caricature set up for the sole purpose of making the audience want to knock him down.If 'Fear Factor' and 'Jackass' are your favorite television shows, you may enjoy this. Otherwise, look elsewhere.

Campbell Scott stars as a very arrogant man, narcissist, playboy, supposedly intellectual lady killer very very unconvincingly, maybe that is the hole point.....OK. To me there are many moments were he is simply trying to be like Al Pacino first and foremost in Scent of a woman', in 'Donnie Brascoe' and 'The devils advocate' and that does not look like its on purpose, I simply noticed were he made his research but failed. but there were things about this movie that I liked such as some(not all) of the things he says to his nephew who appears to me to be no more than a victim of the generation to come. At Nicks age I already new the things his uncle is trying to teach him. although his uncle does say a lot of rubbish at times too. This film is like that. What I dislike about the part Campbell plays is how he just speaks his mind without anybody asking him for his smart, honest but mostly downright rude opinion.