Ohhh, I’m gonna get a lot of flak for this. Let me preface this by saying that I have seen and for the most part, enjoyed other John Hughes movies. Pretty In Pink was well written and spoke to me about the cruel divisions teenagers make for themselves. The Breakfast Club…did not. Ostensibly a teen movie classic, it is the story of a disparate group of high school students attending a Saturday detention and how they discover that, no matter how different they seem, they are more alike than they realize. I found the characters grating and overdrawn, the dialogue grossly unrealistic and the plot juvenile. The movie is inconsistent in tone, too preachy and dramatic to be a comedy but too silly to be a drama (I thought that 16 Candles and most of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was pretty funny). Granted, I was in my 40’s when I watched it for the first time, but I have a teenager, was a teenager and supervise teenagers in my job. This is NOT how teenagers speak and act. If you want to see a great movie about the difficulties of being a teenager, watch Say Anything. (And let the hate mail begin…)
3/10
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