The Breakfast Club Review

Rating: 8/10 (17 May 2020)

Quite possibly the most 80's movie ever, the Breakfast Club is funny, witty, original and still very relevant and worth watching. In some aspects the movie's age shows, particularly in just how outrageously 80's it is, some of the jokes and references the film makes don't really hit as hard today as I'm sure they did 35 years ago. However, I do think in general this film will probably be a classic forever because the themes it handles, growing up, being sort of an outcast in high school, being popular, peer pressure. Like, no matter what group you "belong to" in school, this movie speaks to all of us. And even past school, I think the movie has some really cool things to think about, like how the principal think the kids have changed, buy maybe it's him that's changed, will we become like our parents? Is it inevitable? Regardless of the 80's things that may not have aged very well, such as the Barry Manilow joke, the whole weed thing (weed is mostly cool in 2020 I think and it most definitely doesn't make you do flips and scream and break a window, I think they were thinking, yeah crack, PCP, weed, it's all the same when they made the film), the outfits, etc. But the core themes are relevant today and I think will be for a very long time.