School Daze
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Actor: Art Evans, Giancarlo Esposito, James Bond III, Ossie Davis, Tisha CampbellDVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-01-30
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of School Daze
Movie Review: College in the 80's? A slight rant...
Summary: 3 Stars
Many reviewers have commented on how accurate Spike Lee's portrayal of 1980's college life in "School Daze" was. I cannot claim this, but having graduated college in 2006 I can say that I have seen nearly all of Lee's poignant scenes with my own eyes during my college career in the 00's. In this sense, Lee has a gift for seeing things, writing about them and directing them so realistically on film. Not to mention the fact that his insights have obviously stood the test of time (well, at least 20 years). The insanity of fraternities and sororities, the social activists on campus, the virgins, nuances of being a lighter skin African-American or a darker skin African-American, the sweet innocence of bringing someone to your dorm room at home (when your roommate is not there, hoping to get lucky!), the sports games (which Spike doesn't even show you the field, only the reactions of the onlookers), men teasing each other, woman teasing each other, the non-student townies wandering the streets. Spike's got this film jam-packed with the essence of college.
Lee's father's music is once again in this film, which is great. The actors, are great. Everything is perfect, however not me.
I can't quite explain it, but after watching this movie I thought, "Well, that was OK". This is now, the second film of Spike Lee's that I have watched, and I must say that, if I did not know who the director was before I watched the movie I think that I would easily guess that this was made by a young person. A person who is still hoping to change the world by shouting, rather than by doing. For this, there is something about this movie that is annoying. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed this movie, it was surely fun, entertaining and poignant to some extent, however I just can't seem to get over an air of immaturity. But what am I looking for? Spike Lee is just over thirty when he made this picture. Before I talk smack about Spike, let's see what I have accomplished by the time I turn thirty! Enjoy Spike's second joint.
Summary of School Daze
Spike Lee's follow-up to his unlikely hit She's Gotta Have It was this ambitious--some would say too ambitious--attempt at a musical about college life. But Lee, ever the provocateur, doesn't settle for a simple college comedy. Rather, he wants to make a point about the social divisions within all-black colleges: between the socializers and the socially conscious, and between light and dark-skinned blacks. Laurence Fishburne plays a politically aware student trying to bring his fellow students together; Giancarlo Esposito plays the fraternity boss who constantly seeks to insert a wedge between the haves and have-nots. Lee himself plays a pawn in the middle, a would-be frat boy undergoing a wicked Hell Week as a pledge. The story doesn't pull together and the musical numbers--more spoof than anything else--only serve to fragment it. While it offers interesting points, it never does so in a particularly cohesive way. --Marshall FineComedy DVD Video
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