Detention

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  • Opened April 13, 2012 (Limited)
  • 1 hr 29 min
  • R | Some Teen Drinking, Language, Bloody Violence, Drug Use, Crude and Sexual Content and Nudity

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 17+. More on child suitability

  • 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 killer, which will in turn save the world - if only they can get out of detention. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Shanley Caswell, Spencer Locke, Aaron David Johnson, Dane Cook, Walter Perez
  • Director: Joseph Kahn
  • Genres: Comedy, Horror

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Strange but Excellent

by ElphabaWeasley

I really liked this film! Not gonna lie, it is VERY weird, but it's also really good! It's comedy, slasher, teen culture throughout like the last 20 -30 years, with some sci-fi and supernatural. R is...

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A film for this generation!

by ValShizzle

This is a must go film! It's non-stop hilarious, you can't look away for a second without missing something. You will never be bored while watching this film. The reason the critics don't like...

So-so
I'm In!

by JustWatchTheMovie

Maybe..... it got a lot of crappy reviews so I'm a little scared now. And it's rated R for more than just language and violence. I'll admit..... I would only see this for Josh Hutcherson *blush* it's...

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Critic Reviews

75
Slant Magazine
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High 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. Read full review

70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
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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. Instead, what we get is a mad kaleidoscope of genre, with occasional glimpses into the mysteries of the exploding teenage heart. Read full review

70
The Hollywood Reporter
| John DeFore

Moves at an absurd pace and dares anyone above 25 to keep up, yet the stream of genre-hopping jokes and sight gags makes the movie an entertaining ride. Read full review

63
Boston Globe
| Wesley Morris

The movie itself is never truly clear. If it's also never intentionally bad, its unintentional badness keeps blasting into shockingly clever places. Read full review

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A scene from "Detention."