Dazed and Confused (1993) Reviews
- Starring:
- Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, (more)
- Director(s):
- Richard Linklater
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful Just what I was in the mood for - a fun comedy with no thinking required! Dazed and Confused is a nostalgic look back at the last day of high school for some seniors in 1976. A bunch of characters, ... Read More Just what I was in the mood for - a fun comedy with no thinking required! Dazed and Confused is a nostalgic look back at the last day of high school for some seniors in 1976. A bunch of characters, lots of 70's Greatest Hits songs, with the haircuts and clothing to match. Matthew McConaghey, in my opinion, has the funniest "look" of all of the characters. Don't get me wrong, though - it's all in good fun. A fun way to spend two hours. Close this Review WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL? Yes | No | ||
5 out of 6 people found this review helpful If you are familiar with or nostalgic about life in the 70's, especially if you were high school or junior high aged then, you will enjoy this. Good, but not great. Had some funny moments. Matthew ... Read More If you are familiar with or nostalgic about life in the 70's, especially if you were high school or junior high aged then, you will enjoy this. Good, but not great. Had some funny moments. Matthew McCanoughey was surprisingly funny and on-target with his character. As far as a good laugh stoner flick,it's OK, but there are much better. Close this Review WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL? Yes | No | ||
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful Although I am from a very different era, I found this movie to be a great representation of high school life. The personalities were all there. It has a great cast, very funny. Richard Linklater ... Read More Although I am from a very different era, I found this movie to be a great representation of high school life. The personalities were all there. It has a great cast, very funny. Richard Linklater really is a master of dialogue. I'll never get tired of this movie. Close this Review WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL? Yes | No | ||
3 out of 4 people found this review helpful I guess it was just fresher when I was a college student? Anyway it isn't a bad movie. It is entertaining and does a decent job of portraying the 70's and for that aspect I like it. There really just ... Read More I guess it was just fresher when I was a college student? Anyway it isn't a bad movie. It is entertaining and does a decent job of portraying the 70's and for that aspect I like it. There really just doesn't seem to be any plot or any real point to this movie. Sure it has some humor and it will does kind of bring back memories of what it was like to be in high school but the characters just aren't believably written and it comes across as more of a characture or a farce. Good soundtrack. Close this Review WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL? Yes | No | ||
0 out of 0 people found this review helpful Brings back those terrible days, yet at the same time glorious times, of high school. I was most likely considered a antisocial stoner who sat on School Street curb and smoked Marlbro red ciggs. ... Read More Brings back those terrible days, yet at the same time glorious times, of high school. I was most likely considered a antisocial stoner who sat on School Street curb and smoked Marlbro red ciggs. Watch it, love it. I hate you all!-Stone Close this Review WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL? Yes | No | ||
2 out of 5 people found this review helpful If you lived through the 70's you know better. If you didn't, you're being lied to.
The first half of the movie spends gracious hours of my life I'll never get back dramatizing high school hazing ... Read More If you lived through the 70's you know better. If you didn't, you're being lied to.
The first half of the movie spends gracious hours of my life I'll never get back dramatizing high school hazing rituals. The bullies take them for granted; the victims accept them with death-sentence glee.
This whole movie is a 45+ something's wet dream of what it would have been like to be at the top of the Darwinian high school heap in the 1970's.
Only the nerds have any redeeming qualities. The red-haired girl thinks deep thoughts. The fast-talking Woody Allen/Richard Lewis kid gets out a few laughable lines.
Everyone else either participates in, hides from or glories from afar the demeaning, violent rage that is the older kids toward the younger.
A pathetic, unrealistic, sad -- deeply sad -- slide of someone's fantasy of what the 70's were like, but who had never actually been there. Close this Review WAS THIS REVIEW HELPFUL? Yes | No | ||
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