Wonderful character development!

Very Cool!!!

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Movie night with Iris.Still stands up 25-years later, god 25-years. My teen daughter loved it, so it still speaks to a young generation.

Worth watching simply for the music - though perhaps Slow Ride is tad bit over used!

Richard Linklater's 1993 film Dazed and Confused is seemingly a look back at the high school days of a bunch of 1970's students (both freshmen and seniors). The entire point of this film eluded me - was Linklater merely reliving his youth? And the script for this film was probably written on the back of a postage stamp but hey ho I'll try and give a full and fair review here...Well to begin with there is no story and no real point to anything that happens here; it seems to be a case of the cool kids belittling or picking on the freshmen kids with occasional moments of the freshmen getting their revenge on the cool kids. You can understand this at the start of the film, but it starts to get repetitive and more and more pointless as it goes along. Everyone gets high and just randomly cruises around and in an attempt to try and give insight we get students discussing George Washington and Abraham Lincoln - you know cos they're not all like stupid man!!!The film attempts some coming-of-age commentary with one character Mitch, but it's not handled very well and doesn't really seem important to Linklater - he's much more interested in general debauchery than anything else.In retrospect, the film has well-known established actors (like Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey and Mila Jovovich). If this crap is their springboard then they should consider themselves lucky to have gotten to where they have now - Affleck is OK and plays the same sort of jerk that he played in Mallrats. McConaughey is better than this sporting a terrible haircut and a look of a 1970's pornstar - was this intentional? Mila Jovovich is barely given anything to do and I'd be surprised if she acknowledges this as a high point in her career.This picture has no depth, no fun, and nothing much to say and I couldn't help but feel that this was merely a trippy trip back down memory lane for Linklater. In truth you'd probably have to be stoned like the title characters in order to find this crap-fest enjoyable.

In the year of America's 200th birthday, Richard Linklater drops us smack dab at the end of the school year but the beginning of the summer in a small town of Texas. My friends and I grew up with this film and would often watch either this or Pink Floyd's The Wall, the Alan Parker rendition. Years later, I have grown out of the latter film but Dazed & Confused still sticks with me. I believe this is due to the fact that it explores more than just a day in the life of hanging around teenagers but explores a theme that Linklater would continue throughout his career: the passing of time. This is a terrific film to watch at anytime. Whether you're hanging out with friends or all alone.