Life lesson you already knew

Rating: 6/10 (10 February 2007)

A group of high school students band together during their Saturday detention and learn about each other, and come to some very basic conclusions.
While I used to enjoy this movie a whole lot more, I find that a lot of these John Hughes movies have lost their edge as I grew up. The drama of seeing Bender act out his home life is not shocking, it actually seems to be more like an annoying attention-getting device. The most enjoyable elements of the film are smaller things - seeing the purse dumped out, hearing Brian Johnson detail why he's in detention.... But the larger message of the movie is useless to most people who have finished high school, and come to the realization that the labels and social cliques are meaningless and a poor way to arrange life. That's not to say that the film isn't fun. It's just not really worth taking seriously.
My favorite guilty pleasure - Emilio screaming and shattering the glass.