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List Price: $29.99 | | Label: Walt Disney Video
Salesrank: 19509
Released: August 7, 2001 |
| Our Price: $9.98 |
| Used Price: $1.24 |
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MPAA Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The Third Street Elementary School kids are teaming up to save summer vacation for kids all over the world in Disney's RECESS: SCHOOL'S OUT -- the hit theatrical movie that The Washington Post calls "Great Fun!" The school year is finally ending, and T.J. Detweiler is looking forward to summer. But boredom quickly sets in when his friends leave for camp -- until T.J. uncovers an evil plot to do away with summer vacation! A crazy former principal, Dr. Benedict, is planning to use a laser beam to alter the weather and create permanent winter. Faced with the dire threat of year-round school, T.J. rounds up the RECESS gang and bands together with some unexpected allies -- Miss Finster and Principal Prickly -- in a nonstop adventure to save everyone's summer break. As the kids discover the heroes inside themselves, a platoon of wacky characters, far-out music, and sci-fi surprises turn this madcap mission into a major victory for fun!
Description of Recess - School's Out:
Disney's Recess: School's Out dipped in and out of theaters faster than fans of the cable TV show could snap their lunch boxes shut--kind of nice for parents whose idea of grown-up detention is sitting through such fly-by-night kiddie features. Now that home screenings are an option, though, plan for the ages 5-and-older set to settle in for reruns. Also plan to get sucked in yourself--if the screwball plot doesn't do it, the soundtrack will. While TJ and Principal Prickly (the latter the unfortunate bearer of the "saggy butt" that becomes this movie's clunkiest running gag) bust in on a crew of fiendish would-be teachers during summer break, slices of vintage grooviness--Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild," Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense and Peppermints," and Robert Goulet's "Green Tambourine" among them--get you cheering along, whether you're 3 or 43. The reason for all the retro funkiness revolves around the chief bad guy, Phil Benedict, a one-time educational visionary and former Prickly schoolmate. Back in the day, Benedict was a radical school revolutionary, but his manifesto for better test scores misfired when it called for a ban on recess, a concept so barbaric it got him canned from a cushy government job. Now, undeterred in his mission to make life miserable for kids, he's hatching a switcheroo scheme that will forever pull the shade on summer and thus summer vacation. Predictably, right at trigger time, TJ, Prickly, and the gang roar in to the rescue. It's an ending that's as pat as any on the TV show, but so what--this is a movie that aims for summer-linen lightness. Just as the Fifth Dimension promise on the soundtrack, it lets the sunshine, as well as a few well-timed chuckles, in. --Tammy La Gorce
Recess - School's Out Reviews:
One word: It sucks 
2009-07-11 - Read the title of my review you know what i mean. I mean the ending song was crack on wheels. Why on earth would you make crack-sniffing kids sing about green tambuorines. The kids should just stuff the green tambourine down Mikey's throat. It suckws and belongs in the dump. I would rate it a negative 5 but Amazon will only let me rate it at least a one. This is a box office bomb!
Recess-School's Out 
2009-03-09 - Haha, it's so cute watching this again! While much of what was originally humorous was apparently lost on me, I found much left to laugh about. I did have some issues with the film though. I thought the whole thing was...weird. Of course, the premise was all unrealistic, but it's children's television, what can you expect? I found it really bizarre though, that the kids recognized and took in stride the reminiscence. I know that when I was a kid, childhood went on forever, and had no end in sight. That's not the kind of thing you realize while you're growing up, "hey, I've only got a few more years left", not at all, and this irritated me a lot, making me think the show-runners were going through a "aww, childhood!" patch in their own lives. Another irritation was the music--eugh. Keep it out of Recess, please, the outside music. Something like Green Tambourine, where it's Mikey singing it, the Mikey we know and love, that's perfectly awesome (and makes for the most epic end credits slash music video EVER.) but outside singers? *cringes* The Flashbacks were awesome, too, all the old hippie stuff was just great, learning the backstory.
NINJAS VS. KINDERGARTNERS WAS THE MOST AMAZING THING I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE, ZOMG.
(yes, perfectly caps-lock worthy, thank you very much)
Recess: School's Out 
2007-03-11 - Recess is something of a misnomer. Despite it's ability to blend quickfire humour and morality it's success has fluctuated with the regularity of the recess bell itself. Yet the spirit of the show which follows the summer vacation's of TJ Detwieler and co. is once more enhanced by this, it's most recent DVD outing.
Whilst the kid's are at summer camp, TJ (or Teej) stumbles across a plot that will change recess forever. Now he must get the gang back together to thwart the plan.
The animation is certainly better than any Pokemon venture, but don't expect Pixar. The strength of Recess has always been in the dynamics between the kids and adults and this remains a potent mix here.
School may be out, but Recess is always in.
recess- school's out
2005-08-20 - awesome kids adventure. things we use to fantasize about in school. great for everyone
Bored already! 
2004-02-26 - Makes me fall asleep and lasts too long! Rent it, Dont buy it!
