Wow, here’s a cool concept – a movie with five protagonists. I suppose if you really had to pick one, it’d be John Bender, but all five of them have their own unique backstory, and they all learn from each other, helping one another deal with their teen issues. (These are mostly issues imposed by their parents.)
Though each of the five students is essentially a typical high-school stereotype, (the jock, the preppy geek, the troublemaker, the beauty queen, and the weirdo – you know, the chick who never talks and eats her snot – that one. Incidentally she was my favorite character), all five of them are three dimensional characters.
I wasn’t quite satisfied with the ending; I found the film ended rather abruptly, and I wouldn’t have minded seeing Hughes explore the outcomes of the characters. Then again, there are merits to keeping an open-ended ending too. It gets people talking more.
There are some really great scenes and dialogue in this film. 4½ stars
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While this would not be one of my favourite movies, I agree with you that the characters are well drawn, engaging and very human and that the film is well acted, directed and edited. I also love 'Don't you forget about me' playing at the end (although Futurama has eclipsed the meaning of that song for me and I can't hear it anymore without think of poor fossilised Seymour)
It’s funny you should bring that up, because I saw that episode of Futurama years before this movie, and though I knew it was a reference to it (because of clever scripting – damn those guys are brilliant) I hadn’t seen the film yet. And when I saw the film the other day, as long as the music was playing, all I could think about was that space mausoleum. When I die, I totally wanna be buried in space.
Yeah, wouldn't it be cool to be buried in a space mausoleum! I'm feeling a bit silly now about my post, I totally mixed up the episodes - I meant the Luck of the Fryish not Juraccis Bark, but you got my drift anyway. :)
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