5) Detention
Why the SHIT have’t you seen this movie yet?
Take The Breakfast Club and mash it up with the self-awareness of the Scream movies. Then, mash that up with the visual flair of an awesome music video, then toss in some real talent (Josh Hutcherson) and a killer script.
Detention is one of my favorite high school movies of the last decade, and has a wittiness to it that slow people find scary. The movie is CONSTANTLY firing off, making jokes, making references. And on top of all that, it is bat-shit-insane fun.
Detention is about, well, detention. Much like The Breakfast Club, we find a group of wildly different teens stuck together in detention, but someone is picking them off one by one, and they need to get to the bottom of it and figure out who is doing it and why before they all end up dead. It sounds cliche, but couldn’t be farther from it. This is a satire of ALL high school movies, with sub plots of love and friendships and different cliques and such. But you have NEVER seen it done like this. A HUGELY underrated movie, and one that all people in school right now need to see to make you realize, wow, at least we are not getting killed off.
And I didn’t even tell you anything about the time-traveling bear, who may very well be my favorite character from any movie, EVER. So stop reading and go watch this movie now.
