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Summary: COTTON CANDY
Review: I'd love to give this one star, but as it had some very good acting as well as passable direction, I can not. This has to be the single most unrealistic portrayal of teenagers that I have ever seen. Firstly, there is no way that 5 people would just open up to one another like that in the course of a day. This is a pathetically romanticized parody of real life. Secondly, in spite of his best efforts, John Hughes ultimately presents us with 5 very 2-dimensional characters. By the time the end credits role, all we have really learned is that all the characters have imperfect lives, though we probably could have guessed that from the get-go. They're all portrayed as followers in one degree or another (i.e. hopping up to go smoke up, without even being coaxed,) and consistantly act out in ways totally inappropriate to their personalities (i.e. why the heck does M.R. after having screamed "I hate you!! I hate you!!" to Judd, immediately seek him out and neck with him??? If you've got a logical answer other than it makes for a heart warming scene, please let me know.) Addmittedly its hard not to smile as the characters come together and open up, but the bottom line is this is little more than the cinematic equivalent of cotton candy. It's pink and fluffy and tastes nice, but when you dig inside there simply is nothing there.
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Summary: Still amazing today!
Review: The Breakfast Club ranks as one of the '80's best! The innocence of the 80's is captured wonderfully in this movie as well! It featured an absolutely perfect cast with a great soundtrack to boot. You can't ask for more! I watch this today and love to reminisce that whole era. The teen movies today cannot hold a candle to this or any of the other "brat pack" teen movies of then. I need not elaborate on this as I'm sure you all know. My favorite character was played by Molly Ringwald. She is fantastic! If you do not own this on DVD it is a must have!
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Summary: Simply the best
Review: There were several classic Teen Comedies that came out in the 80's, many including the infamous "Brat Pack" but The Breakfast Club tops them all. Five high schoolers find themselves stuck in Saturday Detention with nothing to do but talk to each other. Although it is hard to relate to one character in particular, (One was a jock, one a prom queen, one a basketcase, one a nerd and one a criminal), by the end it was easy to realte to all the characters as a whole. Although my taste in movies ranges from heavy dramas to pointless comedies, I feel this movie is a happy median. People of all ages can enjoy The Breakfast Club, and its humor is bound to make everybody laugh at least a couple of times while watching.
If you have already seen this movie, I reccomend St.Elmo's Fire which has 3 of the five TBC stars in it, Sixteen Candles which stars the other two, and Pretty in Pink.
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Summary: Breakfast Club teaches valuable lesson
Review: This movie was the humble begginings of the teen flick craze. But unlike modern day teen films it teaches a valuable lesson. That lesson is everybody has problems wether it's the jock the prom queen or the nerd we all have problems. I feel Buffy The Vampire Slayer put this lesson in perfect context. a boy trys to commit suicide Buffy stops him and asks him why he says "No one cares about no one pays attention to me or my problems the popular kids don't care about how hard it is for me" Buffy's response is " They don't care or pay attention to your problems because they are taking care of their own!!!!!!!" This valuble lesson is displayed in this awesome movie (though they could do without the cursing)
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Summary: the very best of the 80's
Review: One of my favorite 80's flicks about a group of kids, all completely different coming together and finding a common ground between each other!! All while at a day of Saturday school! It will make you laugh....make you cry. It will make you jump up and cheer! One of the very best of the 80's !
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Summary: Still Good After All These Years
Review: Considering what type of movie I usually enjoy, I have always been surprised that I liked "The Breakfast Club". I am even more surprised that I still like it as well as I ever did even 15 or 16 years since I first saw it."The Breakfast Club" is about five completely different students at fictional Shermer High School in fictional Shermer, Illinois. These five students are assigned detention on the same Saturday morning. They each represent some aspect of high school cliquedom and do not particularly like each other. At first glance, "The Breakfast Club" is an unsophisticated attempt to summarize high school experience in five extremely different people. Anyone who has ever attended a large enough public high school will immediately recognize the unlikelihood of these five people ever having anything to do with each other regardless of what they happen to be doing in detention together. That is why people form cliques; because they prefer spending their time around other people who are like themselves. Underneath this first impression though lies a layer of complexity that is genuinely true. The problems that the five students have, and which drive them to their indictable behavior, are each serious in their own way. There are two students here with obvious problems: John Bender's (Judd Nelson) father is abusive and Allison Reynolds (Ally Sheedy) is an introverted thief. However, it's the problems of the three seemingly well-adjusted students who deserve the most attention. Their problems are all derived by parents or peers pushing them to extremes. Andrew Clark (Emilio Estevez) is a star athlete who is pushed into bullying behavior by his father; Claire Standish (Molly Ringwald) is driven to snobbish behavior because of her family's wealth and the friends it attracts; and Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall) is pressured by his family to never fail at any class work when failure means getting less than an "A". How these five students deal with their problems and come together as friends may be a bit too convenient for real life; but, it is certainly not impossible. Some times a movie does well by showing the possible even when it's not necessarily likely to happen. For this, showing the ways in which young people can resolve burdensome issues which, at such a young age as these students are, often seem like life-or-death struggles, "The Breakfast Club" does a favor to its audience while providing an entertaining musical interlude or two.
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Summary: great classic
Review: this movie will always be good. i loved it and always will. it's like spending time with good friends. it never gets old. and like a glass of fine wine it's better with age. it gets better everytime i watch it. perfect.
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Summary: Best Teen Movie Ever!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: In this very realistic teen movie, we find 5 teens at school for a Saturday's detention. At the start we se very obvious examples of different levels of high school. The outcasts on the bottom , and the popular at the top. As the movie develops so do the characters. This movie delivers laughs,tears,joy,and sadness. It features some drug content, language, sexual dialogue, and thematic elements. I recommend it for middle to high schoolers.
The reason I gave this movie 4 of 5 stars is because of the lack of features, I mean come on! They could have put at least a few deleted scenes or a "making of" documentary. There isn't even a trailer!!! I'm getting the high school reunion edition, atleast it has a trailer!
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Summary: Classic Teen Movie of All Times
Review: Fabulous 80s fashion, breakdown of steriotyped high school roles, five great young actors in one room, no special effects but rivoting because of the emotion, humor and dynamics between the characters. Yeah!
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Summary: fuunniest movie in the world
Review: The movie, over all, is awesome. All though considered a drama there's lots of comedy in the whole movie, like when the one guy glued someone's butt cheeks together. The only part I'd complain about is how the Jock and the Punk chick fell for each other in the end.
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