We just watched this for a 2nd time, and for the life of us can't figure out who the target audience was. The "students" were all old enough to have high school kids of their own - and it's set in a high school, despite the campus, faculty, etc., CLEARLY being a college. Did either group watch and say "HEY, this is SOOOO us!!!". Yeah, don't think so.
The story is barely coherent, the characters are SOOOOOOO not high school kids... I won't comment on the music because the fact that WE found it coma-inducingly boring, perhaps in 1946 it was hot... If so, it's no wonder Elvis and rock'n'roll went instantly stratospheric if THIS was the sort of music kids were listening to.
It's mindless silliness, so as a glimpse at the past, it's worth a viewing. If you're snowed in. And this is the only thing available. And all the cat videos online have somehow disappeared. It's an overly-long (SNL-long, yes, THAT overly long) episode of Our Gang, but the kids have grown up, their voices have changed, and they're all trying desperately to act like they're sitll 9.
If you watch this, do it via Rifftrax. Trust me.
The story is barely coherent, the characters are SOOOOOOO not high school kids... I won't comment on the music because the fact that WE found it coma-inducingly boring, perhaps in 1946 it was hot... If so, it's no wonder Elvis and rock'n'roll went instantly stratospheric if THIS was the sort of music kids were listening to.
It's mindless silliness, so as a glimpse at the past, it's worth a viewing. If you're snowed in. And this is the only thing available. And all the cat videos online have somehow disappeared. It's an overly-long (SNL-long, yes, THAT overly long) episode of Our Gang, but the kids have grown up, their voices have changed, and they're all trying desperately to act like they're sitll 9.
If you watch this, do it via Rifftrax. Trust me.