Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Purely Joyful Movie!

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

In 1996, Wes Craven came up with an new and innovative concept in horror. He combined a great slasher film, within a murder mystery, while having teenagers mock horror films at the same time. That film was called Scream and it was way ahead of it's time. In 2011, Detention tried to modernize this type of film and fails miserably. Detention is set at Grizzly Lake High School, a school which encompasses everything that is wrong with teenage life today. With a new hit horror film at the top of the box office, one person, who has had enough of the hip/trendy high school life, decides to make the film come to life at Grizzly Lake. This film mocks every modern teenage trend to the point of being offense. The film mocks everything from teens use of social media and cell phones to goths, cutters, emos, bullying, and even teen suicide. The killer on the loose is almost an afterthought in a film that is just in really bad taste. Josh Hutcherson stars as the most popular kid in school, and it is completely unbelievable that the most wanted boy at school is played by a short, hairy kid, with a bad attitude, who happens to be in his twenties. I usually like the roles Hutch decides to play, as they usually suit him to a tee, but Clapton Davis was never meant to be played by someone like him and it's painfully obvious. Hutch is paired with newcomer, Shanley Caswell, an unlucky teenager who often tries and fails to kill herself. She's a super emo outcast, who no one believe would ever be the target of a killer. Overall, Detention is a very mediocre slasher film under the veil of an even lazier comedy. Much like one of it's stars, Dane Cook, Detention tries much too hard to be funny. Comedy should be a natural thing, resulting from unusual events. The writers of this film put so many different types of people into such ridiculous circumstances, that what's supposed to be funny, comes across as stupid, impossible, and downright offensive. Despite the way it looks, Detention isn't even close to being as good as Scream and is most definitely a film you should avoid.

I checked this film out on my Crackle app initially because:Dane Cook.The movie is directed by J. KAHN who did a B.Spears video I saw once and another film I'm sure I also saw ( Charlies Angles?).He also appeared on an ep of MTV cribs, and although his living quarters are meager,his film making acumen is anything but. It's almost impossible to tell you what the film is about without sounding like a mental patient. Though I'll say it's less about a narrative and more about a bouquet of familiar yet amusing cinematic tropes, dressed up as a comedy horror thriller. The problem with Detention carrying the weight of this genre is that everyone in the film, regardless of circumstance is having too much fun. It's high on laughs (not lol laughs,chuckles) but low on tension. No one seems to be in a situation they can't sass their way out of with a Bart Simpson style barb. As denoted by the "slasher films" disappointingly low kill count. This movie plays out like a lucid nightmare the dreamer floats along with because they'll wake up soon for brunch and all you can drink mimosas. DETENTION is a good film to watch during a co-ed horror film sleepover. Get busy when this comes on,trust me, you won't miss anything except a few forced Sting references.

If you were thinking that expanding the Nickelodeon series "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" into an R-Rated feature length film would be a very bad idea, then you should check out "Detention" (2011) for solid confirmation. Ned, Mose, and Bitsy are back and on an extremely painful-to-view "Heathers" does "Airplane" homage thing. But Devon Werkheiser and Lindsey Shaw have been replaced by Josh Hutcherson (who seems to have skipped the same acting lessons as namesake Josh Hartnett) and Shanley Caswell, and Bitsy has changed her name to Ione. It could be that Shaw has changed her name to Caswell but nobody is saying.Spencer Locke is allowed to carry her Bitsy characterization to new levels and is really good in this, or maybe it is just that she is the most effortlessly erotic actress in history and I can't be remotely objective. Whatever, she is the main reason to watch and you will most likely spend a lot of the viewing wishing she had more screen time and that there were more extreme close-ups of her expressive face.You hate to say innovative about something this derivative, but it is a fair assessment of "Detention". From the "Girls Just Want to have Fun" opening sequence (the same 1985 spoiled girl bedroom scene - here Alison Woods channels Holly Gagnier) to the "Breakfast Club" (1985) detention to the "Freaky Friday" "Back to the Future" plot devices; this is a teen movie tribute without the obvious title of "Not Another Teen Movie 2". Unfortunately scotch taping this stuff together without a higher wattage script means that the whole is a lot less than the sum of its parts."Detention" would greatly benefit from having actual humor in place of its endless failed attempts at humor, although at least the continually failed humor provides a kind of unity to the film. Forty-something directors writing dialog for teenagers is generally a bad idea, Joseph Kahn grew up in the 80's and his homages are lost on most target audience viewers. This disconnect can occasionally work in films, when it fuses into a Coan Brothers style poke at movie conventions; but that requires a movie where the absurdity is subtle and not one where the audience is repeatedly bludgeoned with the absurdity sledgehammer. "Detention" constantly seeks your attention, like a psychedelic one-trick pony mad for a carrot. If it had been made two years later it could serve as a posthumous tribute to Tony Scott, the master of ignoring any reality checks when moving his self-delusions to the screen.On the other hand you have to admire a film that makes absolutely no effort to connect with its target audience, that doesn't happen often because feature films are supposed to have at least a faint hope of a financial payback.It does have a fun commentary featuring most of the cast and crew. You won't miss much by simply watching it the first time with the commentary on and that will save you from a life wasting second viewing.Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

This Movie takes Excess to, well, Excessively Entertaining levels of Hyper-Absurdity. Trying to write about this Amazing Adventure into Pop Culture references and Self-Awareness is Difficult to say the Least. It is Hypnotic and Annoying, Visually Impressive and Incoherent. A Fun Nightmare of Images and Sound that are so Up Front that it is not so much in Your face as in Your head. Whether that is a Good Thing or not will depend on Your ability to withstand a Pleasurable Migraine. It is Nothing if not about Everything that is supposedly, in and among Modern Teens, that is Post Modern, Cool, Hip, With It, Retro, Today, Yesterday, and the Future of Civilization in the hands of these High Schoolers.There is so, so much here that if you are so inclined might invite Multiple Viewings. It wears its Cult Movie Pretensions well as it wears on Your Tolerance for Over Indulgence and Mind Altering Substances. The Movie is all over the map and when it is all over, it Challenges the Viewer to make sense of what They have just been offered.It will most likely be a Love it or Hate it Film guaranteed to Alienate. Although this is Refreshing Filmmaking, it will also Siphon Energy like a Synthetic Sponge and leave Limp those who dare give this Movie a Watch. After all, it dares You to give it a try and then Double Dares you to make anything out of it that is Profound. It never is and You never will.