MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

shakercoola The Breakfast club is a critically acclaimed comedy-drama. As a film about American adolescence (or indeed more broadly the Western world's youth) and attempting to try and understood it, it makes a pretty good fist of it, and uses good fun to ridicule pesky authority figures. It deals with the reaction of teenagers who are put on pedastals, stereotyped, and struggling to keep to established social constructs in the home and in school. It's a counter-cultural piece that says teenagers are all the same underneath and uses teen film formula and clichés for then to produce pathos. Critics will rightly point out that some enjoyable aspects like the dance sequence were not in keeping with where the story had got to, and with a story chiefly focused on one setting the actors were under pressure to produce emotion that came across a little forced occasionally. The stereotype that was created for the character, Bender, was never fully deconstructed so there was an uneven feeling about him by the end. The film has maintained its strength over the decades and this is also down to a generation of millions of adults who look back fondly not just on the film and the youthfulness of the 17 year old Molly Ringwald whom they remember, but on their own emotions during their own time at school. The soundtrack and songs belonging to that time period blend very well with those memories.

classicsoncall Ah yes, the quintessential teenage angst movie. Though I'm way past the target audience age for this picture, I can relate to some of those feelings I had when I was a high school student myself, many, many moons ago. Today I'm sure, the pressures on young students have to be considerably greater than the ones experienced by the Brat Packers appearing in this picture over three decades ago (as I write this), certainly a lot more than when I was a student going back a half century. But the primary issues still remain - how to fit in, how to find one's place in the world, how to appeal to the opposite sex, and on and on.The thing I found particularly compelling was teacher Vernon's (Paul Gleason) assignment. He asked the students to write an essay on 'who they THOUGHT they were'. That's distinctively different from asking them 'WHO they were'. There may be some subtlety there for the average person, but if one were to be honest and offer a careful reflection, 'WHO' one is and who one "THINKS' they are ought to be pretty close, unless some serious self denial exists. Of course that could be a definite possibility, as perhaps in the case of Allison (Ally Sheedy). Her Goth exterior masked a sensitive person aching to break out, with the group dynamic offering an opportunity to show her true self.The character I felt to be most a parody of a real person was Judd Nelson's 'Bender'. His dialog and actions were so over the top and inflammatory that under real life circumstances, someone like Andy Clark (Emilio Estevez) probably would have decked him early in the picture. The eventual camaraderie that developed among the five students felt more like a function of the screenplay than what actual high school students might have come up with on their own. The biggest problem I had with the story was the actual punishment - nine hours!!! detention on a Saturday seemed almost unconscionable. And for Vernon to commit himself to nine more weeks of it at the expense of Bender's behavior only said to this viewer that he seriously needed to get a life. But overall, the picture did convey a lot of the feelings one might have had back in the grueling days of high school with all it's attendant trials and tribulations. Having just experienced my own high school graduating class's fiftieth reunion (yikes!!!), I can fairly say there were some things I would have liked to do over again if given half a chance.

msouga-877-396445 It makes me think and feel.... We may be different on the outside but so similar on the inside... Five kids with different backgrounds but the same generational issues.

samuelamiaz This movie describes five teenage caricatures and how they deal with their problems. The movie deals with how different people react to authority, who leads, who comes up with a plan and who curls and in a corner. This movie has helped me grow up and understand myself better as a comulation of a couple of the caricatures.