Too much of everything

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

good film but with many flaws

This film tells the story of a group of high school girls who are the spotlights of the school. Their birthday prank of kidnapping their friend goes wrong, and accidentally kills one of them. They go at length to cover their murder up.Right from the very beginning, we see the killing of Liz. The scene looking into the car trunk is very grotesque, and I'm still disturbed by the unsettling image. After that, the film tries to maintain a light hearted tone. The characters are interesting, especially Fern who makes such a great transformation from a shy and unnoticeable girl to a fully fledged attention lover. I like Julie as well because she's the voice of sanity and integrity. The terrifying teen when is a bit too much because she is so self centred that she could not see her grave mistake, and then does spine chilling things subsequently, which is quite sickening. Overall, I think "Jawbreaker" is a bit too morbid for a high school film.

This movie's get go leads spectator to think it'll be ANOTHER teen movie, given that atmosphere is much like every other teen movie. Some scenes after, I could see it was something else. Possibly inspired in 1996's "I Know What You Did Last Summer", this film tells a story about some crazy girls that accidentally killed their friend, so they try everything to cover that up. In fact, writers and cast made this movie not a teen one, but an adult version of the thriller I mentioned, so it's not a surprise for me to see how much teenagers disliked this picture when it was released. Also, it's strange/cool to see Rebecca Gayheart playing a normal girl, since it is hard to imagine her in a normal character, after what she portrayed in "Urban Legend". One of my few complaints is the lack of interesting plot to run 87 minutes-- this story could've been told in less than an hour. Besides, its final scene is almost identical to "Cruel Intentions"'s. Average movie, just to spend some time.

The first time I saw this movie was in TV and I liked it so much i recorded it on tape. And watched it again and again and again and again...till the tape was done.....so i bought it on DVD one year later.... At the beginning i thought it's gonna be just "another teen movie"... BUT IT'S NOT!Jawbreaker is just the most funny,exciting,evil,mean teen-movie ever made. I just love it. Rose McGowan is just awesome as THE MOST EVIL BITCH EVER Courtney Shane.This movie has everything you need: -) A REALLY FREAKY STORY -) MUCH OF BLACK HUMOR -) A GREAT CAST -) AWESOME SOUNDTRACK -) REALLY GOOD JOKESAnd what is also very cool are the Guest-Stars: Marilyn Manson, Pam Grier, The Donnas,.....SO WATCH IT!!!!!!!!

Three bitchy-teen queens who are the most popular students at school, lives change when they play a prank on a friend. It's a tradition to kidnap them each other on their birthday, but something goes horribly wrong when one of them puts a jawbreaker in her mouth and taped it and stuck her in the trunk. After getting to their destination they open the truck to discover she had chocked on a jawbreaker. Now they make this secret and try to forget, by planning out something to get them off the trail, so the police can't suspect them. But one of them falls out of the group's favour because she felt they should've went to the cops.Err; High School was such a joy, wasn't it? Actually, what I am saying, I didn't go through this, or even come across any type of people like this during high school. But then again this is set in an American high compared to something in Australia. A different type of social politics, I guess. Anyhow, I read that the flick took four weeks to shoot and originally the director intended the film to be a horror film, but it went into black comedy territory instead. To say it was a good one would be a bit of a stretch. Because it wasn't that funny, nor particularly compelling. I love my black comedies, but this failed miserably after the somewhat promising opening. For me, it was just another superficial teen flick that's masquerading as an edgy black comedy. It was more glossy, and sweet on the outside, but the context of this one-idea film was plain sour. Trashy indeed, but the whole irony just didn't come off. Yeah, its hardly awful to say the least, but the intended parody gimmick just didn't succeed, by working it into the usual formula, misplaced sentiment and high school clichés. Overall, the plot is just unconvincing and tame in the way it plays out. And for the climax, well actually it was better than expected. What went by the wayside were the smug characters, sure they're mockery performances… I hope so, but they were hard to connect with, even the ones with good intentions. Nothing interesting really about these characters that's for sure. Although, the performances run cold and hot. A bubbling Rose McGowan stood out as the ice queen of the group, plus there are some small roles from the likes of Carol Kane, PJ Soles, William Katt and Pam Grier as a tough police detective. Onto the cold, well Rebecca Gayheart as one of the leads and was rather uneventful. The dialogue rather snappy material, but other times it bordered on glamorous drivel. Indeed, it was mocking the way those stuck up snobs acted, but at times I was hoping for some more wit, or inventive humour instead. It's been done to death before. Since I'm on the negatives, uh how uncool was that editing? What was the deal with those ridiculous cartoon sound effects, especially during the editing sequences? Now what was good was that of the rocking soundtrack that pumped out some great tunes. Somehow I found it more spiritless even with it sugar, glossy approach. Now if only we could've seen the horror take that it was first going to be, gee I wonder what we would have got? From what I read it sounds like a wannabe "Heathers", a film that I haven't watched, but should do so from what I read and heard of it. The film runs for just under 80 minutes, which gladly it did because my interested was dipping in and out within that time. Nice idea to begin with, but not to long it falls into the tiring same-old-same-old category.