High School – Wir machen die Schule dicht (2010)

High School – Wir machen die Schule dicht: Directed by John Stalberg Jr.. With Adrien Brody, Sean Marquette, Matt Bush, Colin Hanks. A high school valedictorian who gets baked with the local stoner finds himself the subject of a drug test. The situation causes him to concoct an ambitious plan to get his entire graduating class to face the same fate, and fail.

“The first 35 minutes of High School is some of the most comedy I have seen this year. Yea its in the vein of the Apatow/Seth Roganequse vein of witty banter and ridiculous situations. Unfortunately this films script is so sub plot ridden and contrived it losses me at a lot of places and as the movie goes on the novelty stops working.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSlacker/Stoner/High School Outcast films can work on many levels as character pieces, comedies, faux-action, satires, dramas, romances etc etc, there is very little that hasnu0026#39;t been tried and there is very little that hasnu0026#39;t had a good variation of said sub-genre. High School tries to do it all and its got that copy paste feel only a lazy screenplay can have.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOnce again, there are some weird good things about this film, the people being high isnu0026#39;t always super over blown. Matt Bush owns his role pretty well. While Brody and Chikilas are over the top and having fun with what they have to do but it doesnu0026#39;t go anywhere there isnu0026#39;t anything new but at the same time its too all over the place to be a homage to stoner films of yesteryear.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf you like stoner comedies its worth a rental and there is stuff to laugh at but there isnu0026#39;t much of comfort zone in between laughs and boredom.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e5/10”