While proving to be rather funny, Jason Biggs' provides a very likeable and almost heroic character. The soundtrack has many good songs, and borrows one from The Graduate. There are many similarities between Loser and The Apartment. Mena Suvari finds herself in a relationship very similar to Shirley McClaine (sp?). The female character even ends up staying with the main male charcter for the same substance abuse reason. Jason Biggs portrays a shy and vulnerable victim--much the same as Jack Lemmon. Biggs and Lemon cannot even be compared (i.e. Kevin Spacey said Jack Lemmon's character inspired him, not an American Pie), but Loser does provide a complimentary remake to the 1960 classic (for the teeny-bopper version).
