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- 1988
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 1 m
- 1988
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 1 m
- 1988
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 1 m
- 1988
- R
- Columbia Pictures
- 2 h 1 m
School Daze
52
5.3
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
52
33% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
33% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
33% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
52
33% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
33% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
33% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
The fact that Columbia Pictures produced this is hugely significant. It’s not only that School Daze is written and directed by an African-American filmmaker; it’s that it offers a black perspective outside of genre (blaxploitation) or historical fiction.
And though School Daze isn't as successful as the more modestly scaled "She's Gotta Have It," in the end, it may be even more rewarding and promising. The movie's seemingly twisted view of higher education suggests a straight eye, a cool mind, a steady heart--and a great aim.
Despite a few high-spirited sequences, School Daze succumbs to preachiness and choppiness. It's a movie with too much to say and not enough style to say it with. [12 Feb 1988, p.0]
Spike Lee had something in mind while he shot School Daze, his follow-up to the cult hit "She's Gotta Have It." Unfortunately it's still lodged behind his cranium. And the movie's out.
Swiftian satires on popular taste can backfire badly, and Spike Lee's attempt at black consciousness-raising through the armature of Animal House movies almost dies of the contusion it is trying to lance.
A didactic collegiate farce -- "Animal House" with pan-African politics, and an enormously embarrassing encore. Tell an inexperienced director he's a genius, and you create Dr. Frankenstein. School Daze, with its pompous patchwork plot, is an arrogant, humorless, sexist mess.
A shapeless mess that falls far short of the high expectations created by Lee's first feature, SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT.
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