DETENTION (2011) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Joseph Kahn
Josh Hutcherson, Stanley Caswell, Spencer Locke,
Dane Cook, Allison Woods, Parker Bagley, James Black,
A.D. Johnson, Michael Esparza, Lindsay Morgan,
J.R. Osborne, Jon Park, Tiffany Boone, Joe Keane
Remember "The Breakfast Club", where Ally Sheedy and the gang had to do Saturday morning detention as penance for all their high-school transgressions? This movie's not like that. Well, okay, there is a group detention scene, but mostly it's a crazed teen horror comedy in which the protagonist is the school's mascot (she couldn't make the cheerleading squad), the chief bully is a human fly (the Jeff Goldblum type), and a key plot point involves a time machine concealed in a stuffed grizzly bear. Trying to guess what's coming up next in this could be a challenge. The time-travel stuff should appeal to anybody who thinks the most amazing year in all of human history was 1992.
