Review: Senior Skip Day

Senior Skip Day is another of Hollywoods attempt at a modern day teen movie trying to capture the spirit of those made in the 80s – it plays like an amalgamation of all the 80s teen movies you’ve seen before, but just not as good. It steals mainly from Ferris Buellers Day Off with the protagonist talking to the camera, and the principal trying to catch the “hero” in the act of throwing a party. The plot is simple – Adam Harris is a typical high-school loser who has a crush on the hottest girl in school (where have we seen THAT before), he’s such a loser in fact that he lets slip to the principal the location of the students “skip day” party. Derided by his peers, his only option is to throw the party himself at his parents house without his mom ever finding out!! Does he succeed? — Its a teen movie!! Of course he does!!— In the process he manages to win the girl, the respect of his peers and manages to get rid of the high schools strict principal.

Starring a teen cast who you’ve never heard of, Tara Reid (!) as Adam’s sister, Larry Miller as the principal, and Lea Thompson as the mom (who out-acts everyone in the brief time she’s on screen btw), Senior Skip Day is actually better than alot of the dross Hollywood puts out as “teen” movies. Lets hope, unlike most of the good modern teen movies, its gets greater exposure and doesn’t fall into straight-to-dvd hell (which no doubt it will).