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8 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
Comedy or Drama?, 20. September 2001
Author: Benedikt Raquet von Hassloch, Germany

In the following text you can't expect a good english!

People who say this movie isn't realistic, never "joint" the german school system enough.

Ok, the characters are stereotyped and the story may be unrealistic for some people. But there are a lot of people out there, who feel that they are a part of this movie and understand it. You have the normal humor from allday life in school. You see hard teachers, nice teachers and teachers who are driven mad. Relationships and normal friendships like it is today in germany for young adults, who have to face with real life after school. This movie brings you problems and feelings you know very well, when you understand what this movie means.

Take the "though" guy named "stone". A character with specialized elements. Don't take him as a character, take him as an essence of thoughts of a german pupil, who is finishing school. After school you have to face with a life you won't live. Everyday you have to go to work and do your job. You will never enjoy your life in such a free way like in this time you are in school. And when you do the best you can to enjoy your life you will understand this. And the movie underlines this way of thinking. Although the characters are stereotyped you will find them in your school when you open your eyes.

This movie shows also the way of living in germany, when you are becoming an adult. "Sex, drugs and alcohol" The aim of our life is to have fun! And this time will be the best time you ever will have to do such things in your life.

I'm feeling sorry for those people who think this movie has nothing to do with real life, because they never had really fun in school.

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8 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :-
Best film for everyone who graduated school in Germany, 7. April 2002

Author: (ganix@gmx.net) von Germany

Honestly, this is one the best German films - if not the best one - that I saw! No comparison to the Hollywood teeny movies like "American Pie". Schule is not really a comedy. It lags of jokes that nobody needs. So there is an overall very impressing and serious atmosphere, which is supported by the proper Soundtrack.

Concerning the characters and friendships in Schule I would suggest to compare it to some slayer strips like "I Know What You Did Last Summer". The only difference is: In Schule nobody is killed :)

It lets you think on where you appear in the film. What You have done the same, and what different from the characters.

That makes it very pleasant for me, and I guess for everyone else who got his ABI in the last few years.

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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
The last days of school, perfectly revisited, 26. Januar 2003

Author: KWiNK von NRW, Germany

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This movie just perfectly reflects upon the last days of school for German youngsters. It might surprise some, that actually only about a fourth of the film takes place inside the actual school. What seems a lot more important is the school in the characters heads and hearts, the institution that got them together in the first place and that will now soon be gone. Where will they go? Will their friendships overcome the fact, that they won't see one another so much anymore?

In a last attempt to have a good time together a gang of friends explores their conceptions of the future and - more importantly - of the present and their angst concerning the changes at hand. As we follow them around through their small adventures (which include the killing of a huge inflatable penguin and the deflowering of the class-nerd among others), most viewers (Germans for sure) will be able to identify and recognize the characters as their own friends from school. This fictional small town is alive with your own fellow-pupils. You'll be able to ascribe each character to at least one person from your school days.

In addition to this, the movie features great acting, wonderful directing and photography that captures northern Germany at its most beautiful.

There are few movies I could recommend more. Watch it and you will very probably love it!

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :-
A realistic view on German school graduates, but still comedy!, 11. September 2007

Author: jogi_loehr von Würzburg, Germany

This is really a good movie! I, myself passed Abitur just three years ago and saw it two or three months before the final exams took place - and well: It struck like lightning! The basic message of the movie, that there's just a small amount of time left for you to be with your friends and to live a life without the problems of the adult world, hit exactly the point. This movie helped me, to make the best out of these last days in school!

Some comments complain about the stereotyped characters, but hey! it's still comedy and stereotypes are part of it. (if you don't agree, read about it in Aristoteles'"Poetik".)

Also the characters are really nice and you can quite identify yourself (not with the stereotypes,but) with some behavior that is depicted.

After all I have to say that SCHULE is a really good movie with excellent actors, camera and soundtrack and an fantastic tension (the scene on the schools' roof at dawn!!!)

Watch and let it have a place in your heart! - It deserves it!!!

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :-
More then just a funny movie, 25. Juni 2007

Author: wolfhead_gbz von Germany

In fact they made this movie at exactly the school i went to, when i still was a pupil. So i might not really be neutral =). when they shoot it, i wasn't really interested, but later when i saw it, it was just great fun! Not just because i knew nearly every extra boys and girls you can see in the film (the second fat guy who does the fart in class was actually a good friend of mine), but i could in fact identify myself with the film. All these characters appearing in "schule" we had in our classes. Even Stone, the guy who left school years ago and still hangs around. Partying (and at least for some of us the pot-smoking) the hole day and doing as few as possible for school to still pass the exams - that's the way school was! For me this movie is more than just another funny movie. It's a kind beauty memory...

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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :-
one of the funniest movies 2000, 7. November 2002
Author: felix (felics_dombek@hotmail.com) von berlin, germany

ok, this is not some kind of masterpiece, it doesn't introduce a new era, it has no new ideas. nevertheless, it is one of the funniest films i have seen. i'm a fan of axel stein (the fat, funny guy who kinda always plays himself) and i have to say: if he's in a film, it must be good. and the last review (cliché & unrealism) is not really true. the actors are good. there are people in germany who smoke wed all the time, also at school (i'm a bit like this too). and: the jokes are really good. i laughed the whole time because they're just ludicrous. i recommend this movie to everyone who hasn't yet forgot high school and is looking for a funny movie. it's especially good to watch it with friends, because if you talk about i afterwards, it's twice as much fun. a++ one of my fav's

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5 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :-
A realistic movie, 20. Januar 2001

Author: ixs (imdb@dicp.de) von Stuttgart, Germany

The movie "Schule" (School) shows a part of the life of a small group of students, enjoying the last days before graduation.

It happens that I visited the movie with some friends of mine from school and we had to agree that the movie did in fact catch the feeling we had at the time of graduation. To every character in the movie, whether it be the A-student or the "loverboy", we could remember the exact counterpart in our own class.

But also the contrast between feeling free and the uncertainity what will happen after graduation and where all the friends will go was shown in the film.

I think the movie is a realistic portrait of this time, on the one hand making one laugh and on the other hand saddening us.

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5 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :-
Perfect identification for young people!, 4. November 2004
Author: doczoidy von Rastatt, Germany

As I watched this film the first time, i never heard of it before. And I was quite surprised! It has the same boring and quiet surrounding like every other German film, but there isn't any other film reminding me on my youth like this one! Someone who has never been a young student nowadays would hardly understand the message of the film.

One of the first thing I noticed: The producers invented a completely new town witch doesn't exist in Germany! Kerkweiler! They made new license plates abbreviations (KER) witch doesn't exist, they made a new Kreiswehrersatzamt (Military Recruting Office) on a mail header, and all this details only for not finding out where this film acts! So EVERY German can identify with it!

It's a good film witch I can only recommend! The main actor Daniel Brühl isn't one of Germany's hope in film industries future because he is a bad actor!

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0 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
comment, 31. März 2005

Author: master_chief_halo2 von Germany

hi i saw the movie a few times and i m German in in some part is it in Germany like the movie has shown is very easy to get drugs and alcohol is no problem in Germany you are allowed to drink beer at the age of 16 and hard alcohol like ron oder vodka . . . at the age of 18 but its quiet easy to get hard stuff under 18 u go into a gas station give the guy 10 bugs he told s you ti hide the bottle and done in this movie are some cliché 's right and a love story is in it but its with one of Germany best comedy newcomer Axel Stein he plays Dirk (the fat guy ) and its not like there are no ugly girls there are and some of the guys in the movie are losers i gave the movie a 3 because its was just a little production and no great effects if u have nothing better to do watch the movie and build your own opinion

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3 out of 15 people found the following comment useful :-
The definition of clichès and unrealism, 5. Dezember 2000

Author: David Theis (david_theis@gmx.de) von Bad Kreuznach, Germany

When you are 20 years old, live in Germany, have been to school for 14 years and finished school just 5 months ago, shouldn't you find in a movie about school in Germany anything you can identify with? Shouldn't you say at least once 'I experienced that too.' In 'Schule', a movie which tries to show how pupils live their life today, I never had this feeling once.

The movie tells a story so cliché-like you shouldn't wonder about the characters. A group of pupils celebrates their last days of school and realizes that their hopes and dreams may not come true. Besides that we have kind of a love story which seems to have nothing to do with love.

Then there are the characters. It's hard to remember the names but it's easy to remember the role-clichès they were put in with brutality. The cool and horny guy, the pothead, the fat one, the normal one, the swot, the rebel, etc. etc.

Just some examples: the pothead smokes grass the whole day, 24 hours, has long hair and laughs most of the time. The rebel was thrown out of school three years ago, nevertheless hangs around in school since then, wears a leather jacket and screws every girl he can see. The fat one is fat, isn't good in school and is dumb. I can't go on because it's too unbelievable. They never ever try to get out of their role.

All these kids have cars, something which I only can dream of, they seem to have sex all the time, they seem to party all the time, they seem to smoke pot all the time and they seem to pee all the time. Adult women have sex with them. There is not one single bad looking girl. There is not one single average looking girl. There are only beautiful looking girls. Call it paradise, but paradise isn't here, is it? Policemen tease them whenever they can. They say words I never heard before.

The timeline of the movie is quite weird. When it's still noon, they have a party. The day seems to long 72 hours, while the night lasts about 2 hours and dawn lasts about 5 seconds.

The 'actors' are as they can be. Only the rebel guy is really untalented and bad. The dialogue comes from another planet.

If you have seen 'Crazy' another german film this year about pupils today, you know what a realistic film looks like. How 'Schule' could been made is a mystery to me. 'Crazy' was kind of a milestone, while 'Schule' throws us back. This is one of those times when you feel you were the only one who experienced school with open eyes. This film is a disaster and a distraction.

3/10 / 0.5/4 / 5- (1+ - 6-)

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