Rotten
Neither good enough to impress as a meta mashup of horror and comedy, nor bad enough to hoot and throw popcorn at, it slides into a gray area of unfocused ideas and unrealized potential.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Detention
Cancel Your Future
2012 · 1h 33m · R
Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction
Directed by
Joseph Kahn
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
38%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Tries way, way, way too hard. A directorial drum solo that quickly wears out its welcome.
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com
Rotten
There will be young moviegoers who proclaim this genius, and more stodgy audience members who find it torturous. If you're not tweeting and texting a combined 50 times or more per day, you're probably in the latter camp.
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
Here's another sardonic look at the hell of the American high school, where countless American filmmakers believe our souls are locked no matter how long it's been since we graduated.
Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post
Rotten
Exhausting before its first few minutes of whip-pans, smash cuts, coarsely self-referential jokes and on-screen text visuals is over...
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
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