Recess: School's Out

Recess: School's Out

Disney's Recess: School's Out dipped in and out of theaters faster than fans of the cable TV show could snap their lunch boxes shut--kind of nice for parents whose idea of grown-up detention is sitting through such fly-by-night kiddie features. Now that home screenings are an option, though, plan for the ages 5-and-older set to settle in for reruns. Also plan to get sucked in yourself--if the screwball plot doesn't do it, the soundtrack will. While TJ and Principal Prickly (the latter the unfortunate bearer of the "saggy butt" that becomes this movie's clunkiest running gag) bust in on a crew of fiendish would-be teachers during summer break, slices of vintage grooviness--Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild," Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense and Peppermints," and Robert Goulet's "Green Tambourine" among them--get you cheering along, whether you're 3 or 43. The reason for all the retro funkiness revolves around the chief bad guy, Phil Benedict, a one-time educational visionary and former Prickly schoolmate. Back in the day, Benedict was a radical school revolutionary, but his manifesto for better test scores misfired when it called for a ban on recess, a concept so barbaric it got him canned from a cushy government job. Now, undeterred in his mission to make life miserable for kids, he's hatching a switcheroo scheme that will forever pull the shade on summer and thus summer vacation. Predictably, right at trigger time, TJ, Prickly, and the gang roar in to the rescue. It's an ending that's as pat as any on the TV show, but so what--this is a movie that aims for summer-linen lightness. Just as the Fifth Dimension promise on the soundtrack, it lets the sunshine, as well as a few well-timed chuckles, in. --Tammy La Gorce

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy, Family, Musical
Director(s): Chuck Sheetz
Stars: Rickey D'Shon Collins, Jason Davis, Ashley Johnson, Andrew Lawrence
Production: Buena Vista Pictures
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
43
Rotten Tomatoes:
61%
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G
Year:
2001
82
$34,801,195
Website
2,658 Views

Mrs. Finster:
Hey, teacher! Leave them kids alone!

Gus:
Ninjas! Why did it have to be ninjas?

Becky:
Like, I am so through with him, Melissa. He asked me if I spoke French, then winked at me.

TJ:
Uh uh uh. I got copies. Now either you give me a ride or this baby hits the internet.

Ashley:
Got off our planet, alien scum!

Vince:
Now that right there. That was messed up.

Benedict:
All those years, I still thought about you. How you embarrassed me! How you humiliated me! How you destroyed my relationship with Muriel Finster, the only woman I ever loved!

TJ:
That part still grosses me out, sir.

Principal Prickly:
Shh.

Principal Prickly:
I'll let you in on a little secret, Detweiller. Every adult you've ever known was a kid at sometime in his life. You think we don't remember summer vacation? Riding our bikes down the creek. Catching polliwogs in a jar. Camping out under the stars. Well you're wrong! Sometimes I sit there in my office, looking out at you kids in the playground and I think, "They don't know how good they got it. In a few years, they'll be grownups like me and all those good times will be memories for them, too". So go ahead. Put a whoopie-cushion in my chair. Put fake vomit on my carpet. Make fun of my "big, saggy butt". But don't ever say I don't care about summer vacation, 'cause those memories are the last part of childhood I got left.

Principal Prickly:
You sure this gonna work, Detweiller?

TJ:
Come on, Mr. Prickly. Don't you watch old spy movies? This trick is pure gold. (To guard) Uh, Mr. Benedict wanted to see us about a very important matter.

TJ:
Ruuuun!

King Bob:
I, King Bob, as my last official act before entering middle school, hereby anoint this boy here King Freddie the second.

King Bob:
May you boss around all of the kids with fairness.

Mrs. Finster:
I'm stuck! Curse these bodacious hips of mine!

Ashley:
Hey, remember that summer after the second grade when we went down to the pond every day to catch minnows?

Gretchen:
Or how about that summer we all carved our initials in that big tree in the Wilson's backyard?

Vince:
And Spinelli spelled her's wrong.

Ashley:
Hey, I was seven. And "S's" are tricky.

Ashley:
What's your problem? This is the first summer you've lived here.

Gus:
I know, and I'll never have any of those memories.

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