Eww!! High School kids

Rating: 2/10 (14 January 2014)

I only gave this movie a 2 because it did a decent job at capturing some of the most vile kinds of kids that made High School almost unbearable. That being said, its terribly clichÃ©, and while high School kids tend to be that way, who wants to watch them or hear them bitch about life. When was the last time you wanted to go and hang out with high School kids? And if you have recently wasn't it awful? High School was and is awful and if you don't agree, well that's just sad and probably really creepy (Matthew Mcconaughey in Dazed and Confused). And I suppose I wouldn't dislike this movie so much if not for so many other people being so insistent on it being a great movie. The entire movie is basically summed up in the pretentious note that Brian writes:
Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see usÂ…In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brainÂ…an athleteÂ…a basket caseÂ…a princessÂ…and a criminalÂ…Does that answer your question?
1. Sacrifice? you goofed off, smoked pot, had a bad 80's dance and getaway montage
2.For whatever you did wrong? You know what you did to get detention , don;t act like you're civil rights protesters locked up unfairly
3. Introspection is key to self improvement(keep out of detention), you open up to each other but refuse to write a simple essay? what a spoiled 16yr old girl
4.What you found out is exactly how everyone already saw you!Really you are worse than my initial impression of you.There is that better Brian, you're not exactly who I thought you were.You easily give into peer pressure, fall into stereotypes and cry about being judged unless it s a judgement you like then that's fine, even if it isn't true. And I feel like that was supposed to be the point of the movie to "Not judge a book by its cover' which it really failed at doing. Am I supposed to feel bad for Bender? He is exactly the bad influence on the other kids , bully, narcissist, drug pusher the principal thinks he is. And was it really necessary for Claire to start dating him to make her parents mad? That's terrible Andrew likes Allison just fine after her makeover, note to girls if you are a terrible person its okay so long as you look okay! Terrible No one will be Brian's friend and he is so gutless that he will still offer to do their schoolwork for them.Awful The janitor is the smartest guy in the school, I don't know how many janitors that you have spoken with recently but... yeah...80's
So there is no real story to speak of, no comedy, no action, no good romance, no good dialogue and its full of clichÃ©s; so whats this movie good for?
And please don't say the soundtrack, most people only know the one song, and really only five words from that song.And it isn't very good