- Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Films
- Release Date: Apr 13, 2012
- Starring: Dane Cook, Josh Hutcherson, Shanley Caswell, Spencer Locke
- Summary: A downtrodden 17-year-old girl is sent to detention where she must survive a slasher film killer and save the world in time for prom. (Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions)
- Director: Joseph Kahn
- Genre(s): Horror, Comedy
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 14
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Mixed: 7 out of 14
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Negative: 3 out of 14
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Apr 8, 201275High school students (the jocks, the brains, the princesses, the criminals, the basket cases), long the favored prey of serial killers, somehow manage to fight back from the brink yet again in Detention, a bright, witty new genre mash-up.
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60It's as if the TV character Dawson directed "Heathers," or another one, Parker Lewis, remade "Scream." Who'd have guessed that would be a can't-lose idea?
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58Detention is ballsy, audacious, and uncompromising, but the overall effect of Kahn's Hellzapoppin-meets-Twitter aesthetic is exhausting rather than energizing. It's an ice-cream headache of a movie-movie that's so relentlessly "fun," it's borderline obnoxious.
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Apr 13, 201238Detention does have imaginative editing and a stylish, candy-colored look - that is, so long as no one's vomiting, an activity that takes up an ungodly portion of the running time.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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Mixed: 0 out of 5
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Negative: 1 out of 5
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