The movie that I watched for the final review was The Breakfast Club. This movie was the first of its kind where it wasn’t just popular and unpopular kids working together, it developed five stereotypes that would unite for an unlikely friendship. The brain, the athlete, the basket case, the criminal, and the princess. Since it’s release, many movies have followed in the Breakfast Club’s footsteps and now the plotline is a stereotype itself. Characters overcoming stereotypes and prejudice to become good friends.

    The movie begins with all five main characters arriving to their Saturday detention. That is when the villain of the movie is introduced, Richard Vernon. The man who would be leading that Saturday detention. He happened to have an office right across the hall which he spent most of his time. For some reason, he could only hear the kids talking, and would come reprimand them, when they weren’t getting along. But if they were bonding in the conversation, he couldn’t seem to hear them. He also never seemed to check up on the kids. The kids proceed to fight and argue until they start to realize that they’re all there for a reason and the friendships begin to blossom. There is then an adventure (keeping it vague so there aren’t any spoilers) which brings them all closer together. By the end of the movie, relationships, both romantic and platonic, have developed within the group. And they all walk away forever changed (or at least agreeing to greet each other in the halls).

    This movie changed the genre of teen movies forever so I have to give it brownie points for that. It was also very 80’s. There was maybe a maximum of two shots in a scene and they weren’t often very interesting shots, framing wise. They didn’t have the technology to do much more It means that I always know exactly when I’m watching an 80’s movie. The character development a little unrealistic, there was no way that they would change that much in that short of a period of time. Life long prejudice isn’t erased because y’all smoked a joint together. There was one character that I loved more than the others, Claire, played by the iconic Molly Ringwald. She played the perfect snob and her eye rolls are still famous. When I think typical high school mean girl I don’t think of Regina from Mean Girls but Claire from the Breakfast Club.

    I would definitely recommend this movie. Not just because it is an iconic 80’s movie and I love 80’s movies but because it is thoroughly entertaining. The one liners add major comedic value and the assistant principal is the perfect villain. You love to hate him. This is one of those movies that makes you feel like you’re in the movie with the characters. Like you’re really right there with them and a part of the story. It sticks with you after watching it, it has one of those plot lines that make you think.