Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

"Schule" or "No More School" (actually the opposite to the German title) is a German(-language) film from 2000, which means this one already had its 15th anniversary last year. The director and one of the writers is Marco Petry and this one here is still his most known work, even if considerably more than a decade has passed. This has probably mostly to do with Daniel Brühl playing one of the main characters and he is one of Germany's biggest stars right now. But if you are a German film buff, you will find more familiar names such as Jasmin Schwiers, Axel Stein, (the stunning) Lavinia Wilson, Denis Moschitto, Bettina Zimmermann and Mina Tander. They appear in a comedy that deals with a group of students in the last days of their school lives and how they feel a sense of belonging together while they soon have to take different paths in lives, individual paths as they are no longer a community.This is a pretty good premise actually and may have worked as a solid base for a quality slightly dramatic film and/or comedy, but sadly they really messed it up with the script. The plot consists of stupid attempts to cheat during the exams over glorifying drug abuse (and thinking this is comedy enough already) and relationship struggles that come out of nowhere and don't feel authentic at all. Also the pretty young cast was simply not good enough to make up for these problems, actually they make them worse on some occasions even with pretty unconvincing portrayals. And this includes Brühl as well who I consider generally pretty overrated as an actor. Admittedly, the other cast members aren't any better here. There are sometimes solid scenes like the one near the end with one guy explaining to another how he struggles because he has not left, but these are clearly in the minority and actually hard to remember with really cringeworthy stuff like the speaker scene at the end which had zero connection to reality and was neither touching nor entertaining nor authentic as Petry wanted us to believe here. I have no clue why people still love this film, it is almost 100% failure and you need to stay far far away.

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!!!

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...

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!