Ameriatch One of the best films i have seen

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

hallo-bob First of all, if you're a foreign student planning on visiting a German school for a year, you absolutely need to see this movie.In a funny, yet absolutely credible manner you'll get an inside into the hearts and minds of German students on their last days of school. You will encounter all kinds of characters from the pedantic nerd having is first bong (/girl) to the nonchalant, funny fat guy struggling to get his high-school-degree at all. Throughout the entire movie, I was remembered on the "good old times" where there was nothing to worry about but everything to dream of. It represents the social aspects of school and friendship so accurate that there is hardly anything I could criticize here. The story is kind of simple, as it portrays a short period of time and a special feeling, where logic and accuracy aren't necessarily the most important aspects. If I want to mentally travel back in time where I sat on the grass with my buddies just drinking beer, having fun, smoking pot, talking about love and our future - I only need to watch "Schule" to get my dose.However I cannot help but recognize that there are many parallels to Richard Linklater's movie "Dazed & Confused" which is basically the same story set in the United States 1970's. If you watch both movies, you will see that "Schule" was most likely inspired by this masterpiece, which it simply cannot beat. Nevertheless, "Schule" is definitely worth watching if you understand German properly or if you're simply interested in how high school life actually looks like in a country which many believe consists of goose step marching robots. Far from it.

jogi_loehr This is really a good movie! I, myself passed Abitur just three years ago and saw it two or three months before the final exams took place - and well: It struck like lightning! The basic message of the movie, that there's just a small amount of time left for you to be with your friends and to live a life without the problems of the adult world, hit exactly the point. This movie helped me, to make the best out of these last days in school!Some comments complain about the stereotyped characters, but hey! it's still comedy and stereotypes are part of it. (if you don't agree, read about it in Aristoteles'"Poetik".)Also the characters are really nice and you can quite identify yourself (not with the stereotypes,but) with some behavior that is depicted.After all I have to say that SCHULE is a really good movie with excellent actors, camera and soundtrack and an fantastic tension (the scene on the schools' roof at dawn!!!)Watch and let it have a place in your heart! - It deserves it!!!

KWiNK This movie just perfectly reflects upon the last days of school for German youngsters. It might surprise some, that actually only about a fourth of the film takes place inside the actual school. What seems a lot more important is the school in the characters heads and hearts, the institution that got them together in the first place and that will now soon be gone. Where will they go? Will their friendships overcome the fact, that they won't see one another so much anymore?In a last attempt to have a good time together a gang of friends explores their conceptions of the future and - more importantly - of the present and their angst concerning the changes at hand. As we follow them around through their small adventures (which include the killing of a huge inflatable penguin and the deflowering of the class-nerd among others), most viewers (Germans for sure) will be able to identify and recognize the characters as their own friends from school. This fictional small town is alive with your own fellow-pupils. You'll be able to ascribe each character to at least one person from your school days.In addition to this, the movie features great acting, wonderful directing and photography that captures northern Germany at its most beautiful.There are few movies I could recommend more. Watch it and you will very probably love it!

ixs The movie "Schule" (School) shows a part of the life of a small group of students, enjoying the last days before graduation.It happens that I visited the movie with some friends of mine from school and we had to agree that the movie did in fact catch the feeling we had at the time of graduation. To every character in the movie, whether it be the A-student or the "loverboy", we could remember the exact counterpart in our own class.But also the contrast between feeling free and the uncertainity what will happen after graduation and where all the friends will go was shown in the film.I think the movie is a realistic portrait of this time, on the one hand making one laugh and on the other hand saddening us.