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Overrated and overhyped

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Blistering performances.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

My quick rating 6,5/10. I haven't enjoyed a movie I knew nothing about like this in a long time. Take basically every movie genre, think of a bunch of titles from each, and mash them all up into one all over the place package. To attempt to pin this to one genre is impossible, it attempts them all, and does a pretty good job. Explaining the plot is tough, but this often funny movie encompasses time travel, slasher films, teen comedy and the breakfast club just to name a few of what you are getting into. Nice performances from quite a few unknowns as well. The timing is pretty spot on for the jokes, and are so far off for the scares it is just fun. I am sure anyone can pick this movie to shreds for continuity if they so desire, but very much not worth it. "OMG is she going to give birth to herself" LOL. Suffice it to say, in being so much like so many movies you have seen, this is something you have never seen before. I am unsure why I hadn't seen or heard of this before now but I am glad I finally ran across this one. Oh, and apparently Dane Cook still does have a job...then again, he did recently pop up on American Gods. Good stuff, check it out.

I give this a seven because I have to round up, but its the archetypal 6.5There are a lot of references in this that are worthwhile, but they are so disjointed it hard to make anything of them, in fact its hard to really take anything from this one. Its about as relentless as anything you'll see, but its pace is too overwhelming to say it "meanders" through a narrative that becomes suddenly and violently indecipherable about half-way through. As far as a horror film goes, this one is actually a bit of fun, but doesn't deliver to enough of a horrific atmosphere to enthrall in that way, in fact I wouldn't even call this on the fringe or horror/baroque horror.The cheap references and wacky writing is pretty hit-and-miss, the hits substantial but the misses more common. Perhaps the most misleading things about it due to the fact that its plot structure involves 50% exposition/onset phasing. All things considered it one of the funner films you wouldn't have seen available on the internet TV or wherever else, but don't expect to be thinking about it hours after watching it. If you are then you should probably get your stuff together.

If it wasn't 1:30 in the morning I would have turned this film off pretty quickly. There is nothing good about this film and so I thought I'd come here to save you from wasting an hour and a half of your lives. I seriously can't believe some people enjoyed this movie. Firstly. if there's ever a film that has a character metaphorically wearing a sign that says 'I am the killer' then this wins it. The typically psychotic, boring old killer who talks too long before deciding its time to get on with the business and put us, as well as the victim, out of their misery is apparent AGAIN! Secondly, the characters are soooo boring and yes, that includes Josh Hutcherson. The acting is awful, again including Hutcherson, and it basically includes awful back stories of each person to try and liven the film up, which is doesn't. I hate to sound so negative, but this film has no positives. I honestly don't know why the director decided to take the story in the direction it went in, i would have just preferred a 'who done it?' type film which just showed teens being killed after another but instead i end up with this which has barely even a slasher/comedy element to it. Just a ton of garbage.

If you were thinking that expanding the Nickelodeon series "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" into an R-Rated feature length film would be a very bad idea, then you should check out "Detention" (2011) for solid confirmation. Ned, Mose, and Bitsy are back and on an extremely painful-to-view "Heathers" does "Airplane" homage thing. But Devon Werkheiser and Lindsey Shaw have been replaced by Josh Hutcherson (who seems to have skipped the same acting lessons as namesake Josh Hartnett) and Shanley Caswell, and Bitsy has changed her name to Ione. It could be that Shaw has changed her name to Caswell but nobody is saying.Spencer Locke is allowed to carry her Bitsy characterization to new levels and is really good in this, or maybe it is just that she is the most effortlessly erotic actress in history and I can't be remotely objective. Whatever, she is the main reason to watch and you will most likely spend a lot of the viewing wishing she had more screen time and that there were more extreme close-ups of her expressive face.You hate to say innovative about something this derivative, but it is a fair assessment of "Detention". From the "Girls Just Want to have Fun" opening sequence (the same 1985 spoiled girl bedroom scene - here Alison Woods channels Holly Gagnier) to the "Breakfast Club" (1985) detention to the "Freaky Friday" "Back to the Future" plot devices; this is a teen movie tribute without the obvious title of "Not Another Teen Movie 2". Unfortunately scotch taping this stuff together without a higher wattage script means that the whole is a lot less than the sum of its parts."Detention" would greatly benefit from having actual humor in place of its endless failed attempts at humor, although at least the continually failed humor provides a kind of unity to the film. Forty-something directors writing dialog for teenagers is generally a bad idea, Joseph Kahn grew up in the 80's and his homages are lost on most target audience viewers. This disconnect can occasionally work in films, when it fuses into a Coan Brothers style poke at movie conventions; but that requires a movie where the absurdity is subtle and not one where the audience is repeatedly bludgeoned with the absurdity sledgehammer. "Detention" constantly seeks your attention, like a psychedelic one-trick pony mad for a carrot. If it had been made two years later it could serve as a posthumous tribute to Tony Scott, the master of ignoring any reality checks when moving his self-delusions to the screen.On the other hand you have to admire a film that makes absolutely no effort to connect with its target audience, that doesn't happen often because feature films are supposed to have at least a faint hope of a financial payback.It does have a fun commentary featuring most of the cast and crew. You won't miss much by simply watching it the first time with the commentary on and that will save you from a life wasting second viewing.Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.