So much average

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Oh my goodness, it's surprising how people totally ignorant of that situation and even the movie itself still take the time to comment. Whitney Young is no private school- it's a public school on the southwest side of Chicago that doesn't get nearly enough funding with kids that are just as poor as the 'rebels' from Steinmetz- and Steinmetz was no pseudo-Gandhi, just a bitter team that didn't dedicate the hours or resources needed to win.What occurred wasn't some glorious 'civil disobedience,' it was a group of kids who wanted to win the competition against a school who worked harder and did more. Puh-lease, this movie is an ill-fated attempt to be 'edgy' and skew morality for it's stupider viewers. There were no life-lessons involved, just a bunch of cheaters.

I found this movie really enlightening. In fact, I am currently perticipating in this competition at this very moment, regionals are tomorrow. In, regards to the previous commenter, actually the "private" school in the movie is actually a public school. In fact it's probably the best school in the state public/private it's Whitney Young High School and their basically elite, they win the competition every year hands down, and the other school, Steinmetz, it's not right how they auotmatically assumed that the cheated, but they have good reason. It's sad to say but it's not a good school in the first place academically or socially, plus you wouldn't expect a school that barely passed regionals to go on to win the city.P.S. If your wondering, when they were announcing the winners and stuff, my schools was the second most named school behing Whitney young :) I hope we do as well this year but I doubt it because we don't even have 9 members.

It's scary and it's shocking what one school had to go through just to be the best. Did i agree with what they did? no. but look at they had everything short of mini bar's and a juice room they had all the latest stuff and this one school is struggling just to keep running. These students, these kids were determined to be the best no matter what i took. It is a great movie and a good yet sad story of how these kids were driven to cheat and how they just wanted to feel and to know what it was like at the top. Recommended for those who want to watch something new a fresh! ~!

This is a good film and I really like it. I really don't know why, but I'm keep on watching it. It's fun, yet it only just about cheating in the competition. But they have cheated because the people and their surrounding have pressurized them. Jeff Daniels as the teacher have to make a decision if he would allowed his student to cheat, he himself was pressurize by the fellow teachers and his mother saying he was up to nothing unlike his brother. Even after hard work they still fail. Of-course one would be disappointed. And when the chances come why not grab it. I would have cheated myself at least it would provoke the spirit of the team. After all the movie did bring out all the things it needed. And it seem people really like the movie.I do.Max: B+