It's OK, but John Hughes has done much better

Rating: 5/10 (25 June 2013)

I'll start off by saying that I'm a big John Hughes fan and I've loved several of his other films he's brought out. Unfortunately, Breakfast Club (in my opinion) definitely stacks up as one of his weaker films. As I'm a generally positive person, I'll start off with the parts of Breakfast Club that I enjoyed;
Firstly, the bicker and humour between John Bender (Judd Nelson) and Richard Vernon (Paul Gleason) was pretty funny and whilst these were sporadic moments throughout the film, they did help to raise the film from being a tedious mess to an average watchable film. The way that Bender constantly winds the teacher up and him getting really angry with the students did provide some 'comedic' relief. There was also the 'eventual' character development about 25 minutes from the end. This 15 minute scene where the characters (Andrew Clark - Emilio Estevez, John Bender - Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald - Claire Standish, Ally Sheedy, Alison Reynolds and Anthony Michael Hall as Brian Johnson are all discussing why they are in detention, and their relevant faults was probably one of the best scenes in the film as we learn more about the characters and we get to see what makes them tick.
There were however a few problems with Breakfast Club, for a start there is the total implausible scenario with the detention. OK, so 5 students are given detention 4 reasons that are unknown (apart from 3 out of 5 students) and the other 2 students reasons 4 detention seem 2 have been ignored. Secondly, they spend a day in detention with one of the most idiotic teachers that have ever existed. First of all, the teacher who is supposed to be supervising the students is one of the most idiotic men that has ever lived. He doesn't realise that one of his students has clearly tampered with his door meaning that it won't stay open, when he locks one of the students in a cupboard, then the student tries to escape and crashes through the ceiling, he doesn't know who it is, but comes running out to the students and asks them what happened to which they say they don't know ( obviously so that they can cover up for the character of Bender). Why they would cover for someone who is as big an asshole as 'Bender' I will never know.
The final thing that bugged me about Breakfast Club is the unrealistic romance between Bender and Claire ( he was horrible to her throughout the film, but then when she discovers that he is a little insecure she decides to be his 'girlfriend'. This seemed totally implausible to me, friends 'yes' but boyfriend and girlfriend was just too ridiculous to me. On the other hand, Alison and Andy's romance was much more believable and made the film slightly more plausible.
All in all, Breakfast Club is a reasonable film which does get the message across that no matter what your background is, that you can find a bond with anyone. Also the character development in the last 15-20 minutes was excellent and certainly in my mind raised the film from awful to average. This film is worth watching once, but it is certainly not one of John Hughes better works, my recommendation would be to watch Ferris Bueller's Day off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles or either of the first 2 Home Alone films which were all better than this film.