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Directed By
William Dear
Written By:
Jonathan Kahn
Cast:
David Paymer, Ryan Reynolds, John Astin, Andrew Robb, Kate Vernon, Brenda McDonald, Paul Jarrett, Leila Johnson, Chris Gauthier, Alexander Pollock, Jillian Marie, Carly McKillip, Hunter Elliott, Richard Harmon, Lorena Gale, Marcel Maillard, Keith Dallas, Frida Betrani, Robin Mossley, William Dear
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School of Life (2005)
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Movie Review by Zara 
July 29th, 2009
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Who the f*ck is in the demographic for this movie? I first thought that it was going to be some comedy where Ryan Reynolds tromps all over the scenery like the bull in a china shop that he can be when the director is of the belief that the actor can just direct himself (he can't. While funny, Reynolds most definitely is that kind of actor where a better director gets a better product out of him, but left to his own devices he can sink like a bitter little stone).
The movie bills itself as being a family movie and is clean cut with some brief suggestive language (mainly a math teacher who constantly refers to her junior high school students as being "little bastards") but it's far too honest for American families to handle. It would make better sense if this were a Canadian family drama, since America's hat deals much better with unpleasantness than Americans do and seeing as how this was released as a TV movie in America and a big screen movie in Canada simply because Reynolds is a good old boy done well over there.
However, the movie is incessantly boring and drags on and on (the run time is nearly 2 hours long) with life lessons that could have been condensed into an hour long after school special. In fact, Reynolds doesn't really need to be in this movie. It could be any relatively good looking dude who is youthful and appealing to young teens. Paymer is quietly the star of the movie and while I like him, he's definitely not the guy you go to in order to carry a film.
The teen cast is poor at best and the teachers are treated as strange props where they're playing a popularity contest. You would think that the lesson that the teacher seeking popularity would learn would be that you never have to be your students' friend. But no... it emphasizes that that's important. Sure, learning is important too. But only if your students think you're cool first. What a great moral lesson to try to teach.
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