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The teenage wasteland, 1976-style, of Dazed and Confused is smack-dab between The Brady Bunch and Children of the Damned , and it's a scary, if sometimes giddily amusing, place to visit.
Bet it makes you wanna dance.
A better-than-average teen movie but not much more, at least if you aren't a member of Linklater's generation.
Dazed and Confused has an enjoyably playful spirit, one that amply compensates for its lack of structure.
The ultimate party movie -- loud, crude, socially irresponsible and totally irresistible.
Succeeds on its own terms and reflects American culture so well, it becomes part of it.
The film transcends the common barriers and becomes a living spiritual entity, encompassing the essence and tone of an era.
It may have seemed like a movie that was out of time, but it turned out to be perfectly in sync with the restlessness of the early 90s as well.
The imagery and luxurious auditory landscape of Richard Linklater's '70s-set masterpiece retains on this Criterion Blu-ray a potency that hits like a freshly lit, well-rolled joint.
Like the moustache sported by Matthew McCounaughey's character, Dazed And Confused is sleazy, amusing and quite, quite awesome.
Despite some gags which use the benefit of hindsight too much for their own good, this is a smart piece of filmmaking which suggests Linklater is already one of the more formidable talents of the 90s.
Plenty of drug use with very little consequence.
Seriously funny, and shorn of any hint of nostalgia or wish-fulfilment, this is pretty much where it's at.
An affectionate but unsentimental recreation of suburban teen culture in the rock -- and pot -- drenched 70s.
A slightly above average plotless teen film filled with nostalgia.
The backbone to it all is the ritual torch-passing that allowed incoming seniors to abuse poor freshmen, an alarmingly frank touch that avoids the one-sided sentimentality of an American Graffiti-style pastiche.
A film that practically demands repeat viewings.
The 2-disc Criterion edition includes deleted scenes, audition tapes, interviews and behind the scenes, but the most entertaining features are Linklater's critical view of Universal and Kahane Corn's 1-hour docu of the 10-year-reunion of the cast.
The film is actually like high school, and not a movie about high school. There's a big difference, and that's why the film has quickly become one of the biggest cult classics of the last twenty years.
Linklater's first masterpiece--possibly his best film--presents an accurate collective portrait of youth circa 1976, which unfolds in a casual, spontaneous, and charming manner as interlaced tales of pranks and adventures.
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