Reviews

This movie was supposed to be based on the actual Action Park in New Jersey which was a haven of stretching safety rules and "innovative" attractions as a way to compete with better funded parks popping up. It was deemed so unsafe and son many people were hurt that it eventually closed.

For some reason production could not source the rights to that story and came up with a different one. One that is written around quite laughable pranks and tricks. If you demand too much from this movie you will be disappointed, if you want to laugh just see it even if at points it seems rudderless.

Many characters weren't well developed in the story, but if there's a reason why I give it an 8 instead of a 6 is Eleanor Worthington-Cox. She's too talented for a film like this, yet when the script allowed she really pulled it off.

Just go and see it and laugh.

I admit that at the beginning the show was wandering a bit and it took some time to pull me in, but by the fourth episode everything started coming together. It is a great show and it is well well acted.

Many will have dilemmas with historical inaccuracies, but this isn't supposed to be a reenactment drama. It is a funky show, with many liberties and actual laughs. Language is modern, very modern, for once not a Shakespearean English show, but a modern Britain expression. The art direction is beyond awesome, the true breakout is the unnamed girl, Eleanor Worthington-Cox. She is going places!

I'm happy to grade this movie a full blast 10. I was a teenager in 1985 in the last private Catholic Boarding School left in Mexico City. I relate to the strict uniform policy, the angry and imperfect young Catholic brothers still guessing their vocations, the old professors teaching materials for yester years, the canteen food, hiding Walkman radios and sunglasses, talking about bands across the ocean, the girls who wanted to be older and the fashion. This is a happy sad movie, that will keep you tapping and asking why aren't all movies like this. The script is very very smart, the casting couldn't be wiser. Lucy Boynton does an amazing job. The art direction is so precise you can imagine the smell of the flats. The awesome cars. What a great movie!!

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Usually a movie proposes a story, one that can be connected somehow to reality or tries to resemble an alternate world with a reasonable degree of logic in comparison to our reality. Even where and how different beings and species mirror us in someway.

I found this movie to be poorly written in many aspects. Its condescending, instead of proposing a scenario, it accepts some beliefs as true and indisputable. Overall it seems this came from a quite shallow mindset.

As a foreigner you grow up believing in the success the U.S. is both as a nation and country. Its might and power is such that it is under a glass veil and is constantly criticized for what it does or doesn't do. Its people and citizens are expected to be just as such successful.

It is disappointing to learn that the foremost critics of the U.S. and the ones that appear to hate its institutions are really the U.S. citizens themselves. They strive to perform a more perfect nation, yet they despise their government. They want to be above all else but many are wary of themselves. Many think that there is a hidden agenda somewhere against them.

I think this movie supports those ideas. I think it was a horrible product. I can't recommend this movie to anyone. Acting level is par with a midnight television show on a secondary network.

The worse part of this movie is that it assumes the viewer has the same opinion as that of the script's writer. This is a like a preaching from a cult. It misses a lot, a whole lot.

I can't agree with the number of bad reviews this movie is getting. The movie is well well acted. Though it deals with issues within the drug scene and social strife of coming of age movies, this movie is not a Hollywood Happy Meal. Its probably not meant to be seen accompanied. The movie speaks to you and for once the author and director has a dialog with the viewer. Regardless of the storyline, if one is or isn't involved with drugs or social pressure, it talks about how ourselves relish in our sufferance forgetting that a better life is our decision. It may be slow at times and maybe it should have been released without so much storytelling, but I like when directors use new ideas. The movie is very good for what it wanted to portray and I am very happy to see how Emma Roberts has grown as an actress.