Drivel

Rating: 3/10 (11 February 2009)

This film is awful, just awful. Five kids are in detention and each one is a Hollywood cliché. We have the "jock", the "weirdo" the "geek" etc. Even the teacher / supervisor is a disinterested clot. The "tough guy" (he wears a leather jacket - ooh, scary) comes from the "wrong side of the tracks" with a drunken father. Molly Ringwald is the gal who doesn't quite fit in. Yawn. The acting is fine, the script and storyline is woeful. The set-up dictates the opening tension but of course we are given (spoon-fed) the supposedly odd alliances between these (supposedly) different characters and a vaguely mutual anti-establishment bond is formed. If you like dialogue or are over eighteen and by great fortune have missed this dross then avoid at all costs.