Storyline
As a killer named Cinderhella stalks the student body at the high school in Grizzly Lake, a group of co-eds band together to survive while they're all serving detention.
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Cast
Dane Cook, Spencer Locke, Arthur Darbinyan, Dominic Monaghan, Jesse Heiman, Richard Brake, Josh Hutcherson, Aaron Perilo, Michael Esparza, Matthew Albrecht, Walter Perez, Carrie Wiita, Harry Anthony Shelley, Shanley Caswell, A.D. Johnson, Erica Shaffer, Yves Bright, Parker Bagley, Tiffany Boone, Alison Woods, Lindsey Morgan, Jonathan Park, Travis Fleetwood, Marque Richardson, Will Wallace, J.R. Osborne, Kate Kelton, Tammy Minoff, Amanda Leatherman, Jan Anderson, James Black, Ilana Cohn, Jay Brian Winnick, Jessica Lee, Percy Daggs III, Allison Paige
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Reviews
75
Slant Magazine
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.
70
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.
63
The movie itself is never truly clear. If it's also never intentionally bad, its unintentional badness keeps blasting into shockingly clever places.
60
It's as if the TV character Dawson directed "Heathers," or another one, Parker Lewis, remade "Scream." Who'd have guessed that would be a can't-lose idea?
58
Detention is ballsy, audacious, and uncompromising, but the overall effect of Kahn's Hellzapoppin-meets-Twitter aesthetic is exhausting rather than energizing. It's an ice-cream headache of a movie-movie that's so relentlessly "fun," it's borderline obnoxious.
