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Recess: School's Out (2001) 6.3
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Metascore: 43/100
Reviews: 37 user | 44 critic | 20 from Metacritic.com TJ and company must save summer vacation from disappearing forever. Director:Chuck SheetzWriters:Paul Germain (television series Recess), Joe Ansolabehere (television series Recess), 4 more credits » |
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Cast
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| Rickey D'Shon Collins | ... |
Vince LaSalle
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| Jason Davis | ... |
Mikey Blumberg
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| Ashley Johnson | ... |
Gretchen Grundler
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| Andrew Lawrence | ... |
T.J. Detweiler
(voice) (as Andy Lawrence)
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| Courtland Mead | ... |
Gus Griswald
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| Pamela Adlon | ... |
Ashley Spinelli
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| Dabney Coleman | ... |
Principal Peter Prickly
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| Robert Goulet | ... |
Michael 'Mikey' Blumberg
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| Melissa Joan Hart | ... |
Becky Detweiller
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| Peter MacNicol | ... |
Fenwick
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| April Winchell | ... |
Miss Muriel P. Finster /
Mrs. Detweiller
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| James Woods | ... |
Dr. Philliam "Phil" Benedict
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| Diedrich Bader | ... |
Guard #2
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| Allyce Beasley | ... |
Miss Grotkey
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Francesca Smith | ... | |
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It's the most exciting time of year at Third Street Elementary-- the end of the School Year! But boredom quickly sets in for protagonist TJ Detweiler, as his friends (the other 5 protagonist children) are headed for Summer Camp. One day, while passing by the school on his bike, he notices a green glow coming from the school's auditorium. This is the work of the insidious ex-principal of Third Street, Phillium Benedict and his gang of ninjas and secret service look-alikes! Benedict is planning to get rid of Summer Vacation using his newly-acquired Tractor Beam, which he stole from the US Military Base in an effort to raise US Test Scores, and it's up to the Recess Gang to stop him! In the end, TJ and the gang, with the help from the other students, Principal Prickly, Ms. Finster and the other teachers, destroy the laser, Benedict and his henchmen are arrested, and the kids (TJ's buddies) decide to spend their Summer with TJ. Written by FREAKAZOID!
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
16 February 2001 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Recess: The Ultimate Summer Vacation See more »Box Office
Budget:
$10,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£122,891 (UK) (27 July 2001)Gross:
£935,271 (UK) (17 August 2001)Company Credits
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1.85 : 1
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Trivia
"Philliam Benedict" is a play on William Bennett, who was Secretary of Education during the Reagan administration. See more »Goofs
After Prickley gets dematerialized outside the school's main entrance only his shoes remain on the ground, T.J runs home to get Beckey to help him round up his friends and leaves the steaming shoes on the ground. But when T.J arrives at the baseball camp to collect Vince, he appears to have the shoes and shows them to Vince to reveille that he is telling the truth. See more »Quotes
Mrs. Finster: I'm stuck! Curse these bodacious hips of mine! Randall, run back to my place and get the butter!See more »
Recess the TV show is about kids having fun, and teachers being teachers (good and bad). There's good character development and personality variation on the small screen and it carries well to the big screen.
The movie puts the kids in the role of spies who need to break INTO school to save their lifestyle. Along the way, there are great 60's flashback scenes and songs, lots of funny spy movie cliches including the mob-scene climax.
The characters are caricatures but it IS a cartoon after all. There's good voice casting (including James Wood, Melissa Joan Hart and a great sounding Robert Goulet). The plot is complicated (and just a little goofy), but my 8 and 10 year old had no trouble following the action.
There are good messages about friendship, respect, integrity, duty, but these aren't done in a preachy way.
The animation quality is variable. There are some great 3d zoom-sweeps, but for part of the movie the characters look like they've been singed. However, the few animation flaws are only an issue for nitpickers (like me).
See it with someone who knows that characters and likes them. It'll be a good rental or a nice afternoon in the theater.