the Breakfast Club!

okay, confession time:

I had never seen The Breakfast Club until this year.

But now that I have, many of the references that are made in TV shows like Psych and Community make SOOO much more sense.

You see, when it comes to John Hughes movies, there is a pop culture club that no one knows they are a part of, but if you have never seen any of his movies, you are very much aware that you are NOT in his club. So even if you dislike the movies, you are a part of a club, which makes you feel special.

Okay, so now that I have got that out of the way, on to the review!

First things first: Molly Ringwald could be a young Molly Weasly. I just blew your mind, didn’t I?

Okay, okay, I’ll try to stay focused.

The Breakfast Club is always named as being funny and touching and whatever. I say that yes, it was pretty touching at some parts. But it wasn’t really all that funny.

But I didn’t think Stripes was that funny either, and my mom and dad thought that it was super de duper funny, so that may just be a generation difference when it comes to some of these older movies.

So whatever.

I thought that The Breakfast Club was a billion times better then 16 Candles, which I hated, but appreciated because of the whole club thing.

But that is an entirely different review.

The Breakfast Club breaks all social and political stereotypes.

Well actually, that’s not true. You will notice that none of the main characters are gay, which is a stereotype that is usually added in movies today. Also, none of the characters are black. ummmm, odd.

Anyway, The Breakfast Club breaks AL(most) stereotypes…. That doesn’t even make any sense.

ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT I will try to stay focused. I’m having some trouble today.

Anyway, the story starts out with the song “don’t you forget about me” which is THE 80s song. You know, like THE song of the 80s. In so many 80s movies, this is the song that they play in the credits, because this song sums up 80s music in a nutshell.

Then you learn that these kids have to go to detention for 8 FREKING HOURS ON A SATURDAY. And I died a little on the inside. That is the worse way possible to spend your Saturday. Or so I thought.  

Along the way of these odd friendships,  there is dancing and pot smoking. So it was actually a pretty wild party. The movie was very interesting because it was all about going against stereotypes, but then they encouraged the stereotypes when Molly Ringwald dressed up that one creepy girl and made her only slightly less creepy.

(Fun fact: the creepy girl (Ally Sheedy) plays “Mr. Yang” in Psych. HA! That made me laugh when I saw that it was her.)

Then Ally Sheedy gets the jock (Emilio Estevez) at the end of the movie, I’m pretty sure it is because he likes her personality, but we will NEVER know, now will we?

The reason that this movie is rated R is because high school itself is rated R. so I applaud that aspect of this movie. High school is NOT (Repeat IS NOT) like High School Musical, or like Glee, or like that new Prom movie (Okay confession time, I haven’t seen that movie, but I don’t need to, high school is just not like that). The jock will never fall in love with the dorky girl.

CHRIS EVANS WILL NEVER COME TO MY SCHOOL AND SAY THAT HE IS MADLY IN LOVE WITH ME AND SAY THAT MY TOTAL LOVE OF STAR TREK IS CUTE

er, what? Don’t look at me like that! This is my public service announcement to the world and to myself! I- *SOB* CHRIS! *Molly brakes down crying*

Okay, back to the review.  

So this movie has some really good parts, but it also has some sorta bizarre (bizarre is a really bizarre word) parts. Like when Ringwald puts on her lipstick from her bra…..that was a weird part. But the weirdest part of the whole movie was WHY on EARTH would Clare (Molly Ringwald) fall for John Bender (Judd Nelson) he is a total jerk to her, so and he is not even that funny or anything. And when the whole bra-lipstick part happened, he totally slapped her in the face (Not literally).  Why would anyone like the stupid bad boy routine?

What was that?

You say that Chris Evans is a bad boy?

How dare you! He is the love of my life is what he is.

CHIRS EVANS I LOVE YOU!

er, *awkward pause* *clears throat*

Nice weather we’ve been having, huh?

Okay, so I’ve sorta fell for the whole bad boy routine when it comes to Evans (Although he plays Captain America and he was a really noble person in that movie) but that is completely beside the point. The point is why would someone fall for a person who is a jerk to them? I don’t know, maybe Clare likes the fact that this guy will someday end up being an abusive husband with the wife beater shirt and the beer drinking. I mean, how can anyone NOT love that? Please ladies, try to control yourselves around Mr. Bender.

Another thing that weirded me out? The fact that Clair and Bender kissed in front of Clair’s dad.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t think my dad would be too thrilled if I started making out with a guy who is obviously a pot-smoker-wife-beater-beer-drinker. But he obviously doesn’t know that all women are insanely attracted to those characteristics. (I’m being sarcastic for all those who don’t know)

So over all this is a pretty good movie, I wouldn’t call it one of my favorite movies, but if you don’t see it then you are not apart of our club. So you need to get your butt over to the computer (But if you are reading this then you are probably at the computer) and open your Netflix account and get the Breakfast Club, because it is worth seeing.

What? What was that? I was the only person in the entire world who had not seen the Breakfast Club?....I think this reviews over.

My Grade: 83

Everyone else’s Grade: how the heck should I know, you are the ones who know SOOO much about this movie *Molly Crosses her arms and walks away in a sulky manner* (I may be a resentful at your earlier comment)

Rated: R for pot use and repeated use of the F bomb.