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Detention

2011

Joseph Kahn

Josh Hutcherson, Shanley Caswell, Spencer Locke, Aaron David Johnson ...

5.1

2,200

Comedy. Horror. Sci-Fi An apocalyptic fantasy, horror, science fiction, action-thriller, body swapping, time-traveling teen romantic comedy starring Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook and Shanley Caswell. Detention follows the local students of Grizzly Lake as they survive their final year of high school. Bringing even more angst to student life, a slasher killer has chosen their high school as his new home of slaughter. It becomes a race against time to stop the ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Like Heathers reimagined by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, then reprocessed for consumption by the Twitter generation, Joseph Kahn's Detention moves at an absurd pace and dares anyone above 25"
		Andrew Barker Variety	"What starts as a bracing rush quickly devolves into a deadening assault of stimuli."
		Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News	"No one can be happier about 'The Hunger Games' success than writer-director Joseph Kahn, who was smart enough to cast Josh 'Peeta' Hutcherson (...) And that’s a good thing for everyone, since it means more people are likely to discover this amusingly irreverent indie comedy (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"
		Connie Ogle Miami Herald	"'Detention' has a frenetic visual style that's fun and appealing in a lot of ways, but there are way too many elements fighting for attention."
		Slant	"A bright, witty new genre mash-up."
		Nick Pinkerton Village Voice	"It's one of the most obnoxious movies ever made."
		Bilge Ebiri Vulture	"A future cult classic (...) You admire the movie for refusing to ever, ever slow down, but you also wonder what might have happened had Kahn dared to settle, even just a bit"
		Peter Howell Toronto Star	"Neither good enough to impress as a meta mashup of horror and comedy, nor bad enough to hoot and throw popcorn at"
		Joshua Rothkopf Los Angeles Times	"The whole thing comes off like 200 commercials smashed together, selling you your own obsolescence."

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