the leading man is my tpye

Perfect cast and a good story

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

"Schule" or "No More School" (actually the opposite to the German title) is a German(-language) film from 2000, which means this one already had its 15th anniversary last year. The director and one of the writers is Marco Petry and this one here is still his most known work, even if considerably more than a decade has passed. This has probably mostly to do with Daniel Brühl playing one of the main characters and he is one of Germany's biggest stars right now. But if you are a German film buff, you will find more familiar names such as Jasmin Schwiers, Axel Stein, (the stunning) Lavinia Wilson, Denis Moschitto, Bettina Zimmermann and Mina Tander. They appear in a comedy that deals with a group of students in the last days of their school lives and how they feel a sense of belonging together while they soon have to take different paths in lives, individual paths as they are no longer a community.This is a pretty good premise actually and may have worked as a solid base for a quality slightly dramatic film and/or comedy, but sadly they really messed it up with the script. The plot consists of stupid attempts to cheat during the exams over glorifying drug abuse (and thinking this is comedy enough already) and relationship struggles that come out of nowhere and don't feel authentic at all. Also the pretty young cast was simply not good enough to make up for these problems, actually they make them worse on some occasions even with pretty unconvincing portrayals. And this includes Brühl as well who I consider generally pretty overrated as an actor. Admittedly, the other cast members aren't any better here. There are sometimes solid scenes like the one near the end with one guy explaining to another how he struggles because he has not left, but these are clearly in the minority and actually hard to remember with really cringeworthy stuff like the speaker scene at the end which had zero connection to reality and was neither touching nor entertaining nor authentic as Petry wanted us to believe here. I have no clue why people still love this film, it is almost 100% failure and you need to stay far far away.

As I watched this film the first time, i never heard of it before. And I was quite surprised! It has the same boring and quiet surrounding like every other German film, but there isn't any other film reminding me on my youth like this one! Someone who has never been a young student nowadays would hardly understand the message of the film.One of the first thing I noticed: The producers invented a completely new town witch doesn't exist in Germany! Kerkweiler! They made new license plates abbreviations (KER) witch doesn't exist, they made a new Kreiswehrersatzamt (Military Recruting Office) on a mail header, and all this details only for not finding out where this film acts! So EVERY German can identify with it!It's a good film witch I can only recommend! The main actor Daniel Brühl isn't one of Germany's hope in film industries future because he is a bad actor!

This movie just perfectly reflects upon the last days of school for German youngsters. It might surprise some, that actually only about a fourth of the film takes place inside the actual school. What seems a lot more important is the school in the characters heads and hearts, the institution that got them together in the first place and that will now soon be gone. Where will they go? Will their friendships overcome the fact, that they won't see one another so much anymore?In a last attempt to have a good time together a gang of friends explores their conceptions of the future and - more importantly - of the present and their angst concerning the changes at hand. As we follow them around through their small adventures (which include the killing of a huge inflatable penguin and the deflowering of the class-nerd among others), most viewers (Germans for sure) will be able to identify and recognize the characters as their own friends from school. This fictional small town is alive with your own fellow-pupils. You'll be able to ascribe each character to at least one person from your school days.In addition to this, the movie features great acting, wonderful directing and photography that captures northern Germany at its most beautiful.There are few movies I could recommend more. Watch it and you will very probably love it!

ok, this is not some kind of masterpiece, it doesn't introduce a new era, it has no new ideas. nevertheless, it is one of the funniest films i have seen. i'm a fan of axel stein (the fat, funny guy who kinda always plays himself) and i have to say: if he's in a film, it must be good. and the last review (cliché & unrealism) is not really true. the actors are good. there are people in germany who smoke wed all the time, also at school (i'm a bit like this too). and: the jokes are really good. i laughed the whole time because they're just ludicrous. i recommend this movie to everyone who hasn't yet forgot high school and is looking for a funny movie. it's especially good to watch it with friends, because if you talk about i afterwards, it's twice as much fun. a++ one of my fav's