No More School (2000)

The Worst Film Ever

That was an excellent one.

Good start, but then it gets ruined

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

First of all, if you're a foreign student planning on visiting a German school for a year, you absolutely need to see this movie.In a funny, yet absolutely credible manner you'll get an inside into the hearts and minds of German students on their last days of school. You will encounter all kinds of characters from the pedantic nerd having is first bong (/girl) to the nonchalant, funny fat guy struggling to get his high-school-degree at all. Throughout the entire movie, I was remembered on the "good old times" where there was nothing to worry about but everything to dream of. It represents the social aspects of school and friendship so accurate that there is hardly anything I could criticize here. The story is kind of simple, as it portrays a short period of time and a special feeling, where logic and accuracy aren't necessarily the most important aspects. If I want to mentally travel back in time where I sat on the grass with my buddies just drinking beer, having fun, smoking pot, talking about love and our future - I only need to watch "Schule" to get my dose.However I cannot help but recognize that there are many parallels to Richard Linklater's movie "Dazed & Confused" which is basically the same story set in the United States 1970's. If you watch both movies, you will see that "Schule" was most likely inspired by this masterpiece, which it simply cannot beat. Nevertheless, "Schule" is definitely worth watching if you understand German properly or if you're simply interested in how high school life actually looks like in a country which many believe consists of goose step marching robots. Far from it.

This is really a good movie! I, myself passed Abitur just three years ago and saw it two or three months before the final exams took place - and well: It struck like lightning! The basic message of the movie, that there's just a small amount of time left for you to be with your friends and to live a life without the problems of the adult world, hit exactly the point. This movie helped me, to make the best out of these last days in school!Some comments complain about the stereotyped characters, but hey! it's still comedy and stereotypes are part of it. (if you don't agree, read about it in Aristoteles'"Poetik".)Also the characters are really nice and you can quite identify yourself (not with the stereotypes,but) with some behavior that is depicted.After all I have to say that SCHULE is a really good movie with excellent actors, camera and soundtrack and an fantastic tension (the scene on the schools' roof at dawn!!!)Watch and let it have a place in your heart! - It deserves it!!!

ok, this is not some kind of masterpiece, it doesn't introduce a new era, it has no new ideas. nevertheless, it is one of the funniest films i have seen. i'm a fan of axel stein (the fat, funny guy who kinda always plays himself) and i have to say: if he's in a film, it must be good. and the last review (cliché & unrealism) is not really true. the actors are good. there are people in germany who smoke wed all the time, also at school (i'm a bit like this too). and: the jokes are really good. i laughed the whole time because they're just ludicrous. i recommend this movie to everyone who hasn't yet forgot high school and is looking for a funny movie. it's especially good to watch it with friends, because if you talk about i afterwards, it's twice as much fun. a++ one of my fav's

The movie "Schule" (School) shows a part of the life of a small group of students, enjoying the last days before graduation.It happens that I visited the movie with some friends of mine from school and we had to agree that the movie did in fact catch the feeling we had at the time of graduation. To every character in the movie, whether it be the A-student or the "loverboy", we could remember the exact counterpart in our own class.But also the contrast between feeling free and the uncertainity what will happen after graduation and where all the friends will go was shown in the film.I think the movie is a realistic portrait of this time, on the one hand making one laugh and on the other hand saddening us.