A melodramatic caricature of school life?

Rating: 5/10 (5 November 2014)

I watched this again after a long while. The first time I watched it I was in the 90s and I would've been about 14 or 15, and I found it boring to be honest. As for now, I did find it a little more interesting, but it didn't have any memories flooding back.
I'll start by explaining why I called it a melodramatic caricature... The Principal. He was just a typical tyrannical teacher from any random teen school movie. And I used that as a starting point for the five kids. Also, Bender looked like he was dressed as a 'rebel' for a cheap school play, as well as looking old enough to be one of the teachers.
Those things aside, I don't know what life was really like in American schools in the 80s, but it sure as hell was nothing like this for us in English schools in the 90s. Kids weren't generally that segregated. We still had the separate friend groups, but that would include people from all of the categories in this movie. As for Bender, I thought he had some serious mental issues, because most of the time he was just acting out like a five year old that'd been told he can't have anymore sweets.
It was still an OKish movie. Personally I would've been impressed if it was ad-libbed. Because, lets face it, as a written movie some of the long monologues just sound silly.
And I'll just end by saying Bueller was a better movie. :D