Wonderfully offbeat film!

Really Surprised!

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

The entire film felt like the director was showcasing his taste in popular culture. Absolutely no value to a mainstream audience.Thin plot, generic characters, and whimsy instead of an actual coherent storyline. For the most part, it was just clichéd references to films that are actually better than the one you're watching.We only watched it because it appeared in the horror section of Netflix, but it turned out to be much more horrifying than we expected. If it weren't for all the janky side stories, the main plot about the serial killer would have lasted around 20 minutes. And I wish it did.Extremely boring trash marketed towards nineties kids who jack off over corded land-line phones.

A highly stylised, fast paced, perky, dynamic film that keeps you on your toes. This is great as long as you like films that have tendency to suspend disbelief and not adhere to a plot line.I can take them or leave them, the person I watched this with couldn't. They exclaimed that the film was stupid about once every nine minutes.And they were right, but that is kind of the point of it.The acting, camera work and production are great. Characters were intriguing and had elements of depth - even when they (literally) materialised out of thin air.Expect pop culture references, messy death scenes and time travelling bears by the bucket load.If you like Scott Pilgrim vs the World you are going to love this. If you don't like elastic story telling, abstract characters or teenagers steer well clear.

Starts out smart and funny, but right after the titles, it slows to a crawl and gets really tedious.And then it gets silly.The film looks good.And the acting is good.But there is something missing and I'll tell you what it is -- the guy who directed this does TV commercials. So it's all look and no heart.You don't really care about the characters. How they look is more important to the director than anything deeper.What happens is you get a poor man's Scream.Half way through the film, there isn't hasn't even been that much gore!In the end, I can't agree with the up votes here on IMDb. This COULD have been a really good horror movie.It fails and comes up WAY short.The Plot This comedy/horror movie is about a group of teens who go to Grizzly Lake High School. When one of their class mates is killed by someone dressed up as 'Cinderhella' (a character from a popular horror movie) they are all under suspicion. But when they all get detention, they try to work out who it is.

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.