The film was distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, premiered on February 10, 2001, and was released theatrically in the United States on February 16, 2001. The film received mixed reviews from critics and performed well at the box office, grossing $44.5 million on a $23 million budget.[2]
A group of men break into a military base and steal a top-secret project, intending to use Third Street School as their headquarters. After pranking on Principal Prickly on the last day of school before summer vacation, T.J. Detweiler is excited to spend the time off with his friends, only to be disappointed to learn they will all be attending different summer camps. Resigned to spending the summer alone, T.J. notices strange activity at Third Street School. Investigating further, he sees scientists performing strange experiments with a tractor beam. After neither his parents nor the police believe him, he goes to Prickly, who prepares to show T.J. the school is empty, but is dematerialized when trying to enter the building.
Desperate, T.J. blackmails his older sister Becky to drive him to all the camps to retrieve his friends. They all return with him to Third Street School, but accuse him of deceit after recovering a box of inconsequential documents from the school. T.J.'s suspicions are verified when they all see a giant laser emerging from the school roof and formulate a plan of camp during the day and meeting up at night. After T.J. finds Prickly's discarded pants with a note reading "Help Me!" in the pocket, the gang infiltrate the school to rescue him. School snitch Randall Weems, who has been eavesdropping on them, goes to inform deputy principal Muriel Finster.
The kids find the auditorium has been turned into a laboratory. T.J. is captured by guards while his friends escape and is imprisoned with Prickly. They both discover that Prickly's old friend Dr. Phillium Benedict is overseeing the operation inside the school. Prickly exposits Benedict's background to T.J.: in 1968, while he, Benedict and Finster were all in teacher training, Benedict was appointed Principal of Third Street School and proposed abolishing recess to improve test grades. Prickly asked the superintendent to encourage Benedict to rescind, but when he declined, he was replaced as principal with Prickly, and Finster dumped him. Swearing revenge on Prickly, Benedict became secretary of education but was fired by the President for reattempting to abolish recess nationwide.
While T.J.’s friends review the recovered papers, Spinelli finds a date book that mentions lunar perigee (taking place at 12:22 pm the next day). Gretchen realizes the machine they saw is a tractor beam and concludes that Benedict intends to use it to move the moon when it nears Earth. T.J. and Prickly get to Prickly’s office, where they discover Benedict’s plan to eradicate summer vacation by creating a new permanent Ice Age that will force kids indoors year-round. Meanwhile, T.J.’s friends persuade Becky to drive them to the camps and pick up all the other students, while Finster rallies the teachers, and Gus takes charge, concocting a plan to infiltrate the school.
As Benedict prepares to enact his plan in the auditorium, the students and teachers of Third Street School all attempt to stop him and his henchmen. During the ensuing battle, Benedict attempts to activate the beam himself but is stopped by Prickly, only for Benedict to break the controls and make the process irreversible. T.J. instructs Vince to throw a baseball at the beam, which destroys it. Finally aware of Benedict's plot, the police arrive at the school to arrest him and his henchmen. T.J.'s friends decide to spend the rest of their summer together. T.J. thanks Prickly in his office, who in turn thanks T.J. for reminding him why he started teaching: to help kids. T.J. then joins his friends as Prickly jokingly reminds T.J. he will still be reprimanded for his earlier prank when September comes.
Cast
Andrew Lawrence as Theodore Jasper "T.J." Detweiler, the leader of the Recess gang.
Jason Davis as Mikey Blumberg, an obese boy with an operatic singing voice.
Robert Goulet as Mikey's singing voice. This was Goulet's final theatrical film role before his death in 2007.
Ashley Johnson as Gretchen Grundler, the intelligent strategist of the gang / Ashley Tomassian, one of the Ashleys.
Courtland Mead as Gus Griswald, a timid boy with high military knowledge.
Pamela Adlon as Ashley Spinelli, a violent, short-fused tomboy who doesn’t really like her first name because of it being associated with the Ashleys group.
Dabney Coleman as Principal Peter Prickly, the principal of Third Street School.
Melissa Joan Hart as Becky Detweiler, T.J.’s older sister who later becomes the assistant manager at Floppy Burger.
April Winchell as Ms. Muriel Finster, the deputy principal of Third Street School and a professional boxer / Mrs. Detweiler, T.J. and Becky’s mother.
James Woods as Dr. Phillium Benedict, Principal Prickly’s former best friend, and the mastermind of the plot to eradicate summer vacation.
Peter MacNicol as Professor Fenwick, Dr. Benedict’s second-in-command.
Recess: School's Out was released on VHS and DVD by Walt Disney Home Video on August 7, 2001.[4] As of November 12, 2019, the film, along with the series, is available to stream on Disney+.
Reception
Box office
The film earned $36.7 million in North America and another $7.8 million from other countries. The worldwide gross was $44.5 million, against a $23 million budget.[2] The film was released in the United Kingdom on July 27, 2001, and opened on #7.[5]
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, the film has an approval rating of 60% based on 70 reviews, with an average rating is 5.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Though basically a television cartoon stretched out to movie length, Recess has enough successful jokes and smart writing to make it a worthwhile view."[4] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 43 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[6] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, gave the film a two and a half stars out of four, saying, "Parents may find it amusing, but it doesn't have the two track versatility of Rugrats in Paris, which worked for kids on one level, and adults on another."[7] Bob McCabe of Empire Magazine, gave the film a one out of five stars and said, "Even if it did keep the ankle biters quiet for an hour or so, this still wouldn't be worth your money."[8]
Common Sense Media gave the film a two out of four stars and said: "Simply a TV episode blown up for the big screen."[9]
References
^"Recess: School's Out". American Film Institute. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
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Recess School s Out also known as Recess The Movie School s Out is a 2001 American animated comedy adventure film based on the Disney television series Recess 3 and features the voices of Andrew Lawrence Rickey D Shon Collins Jason Davis Ashley Johnson Courtland Mead Pamela Adlon Dabney Coleman Melissa Joan Hart April Winchell and James Woods Recess School s OutTheatrical release posterDirected byChuck SheetzScreenplay byJonathan GreenbergStory byPaul Germain Joe Ansolabehere Jonathan GreenbergBased onRecessby Paul GermainJoe AnsolabehereProduced byJoe Ansolabehere Paul Germain Toshio Suzuki uncredited Stephen SwoffordStarringAndrew Lawrence Rickey D Shon Collins Jason Davis Ashley Johnson Courtland Mead Pamela Adlon Dabney Coleman Melissa Joan Hart April Winchell Allyce Beasley Ryan O Donohue Peter MacNicol Clancy Brown Tony Jay R Lee Ermey James Woods Robert StackEdited byTony MizgalskiMusic byDenis M HanniganProductioncompaniesWalt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Television Animation Walt Disney Television Animation Digital Production Paul amp Joe Productions Sunwoo AnimationSunwoo Digital InternationalDistributed byBuena Vista Pictures DistributionRelease datesFebruary 10 2001 2001 02 10 premiere February 16 2001 2001 02 16 United States Running time83 minutes 1 CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget 23 million 2 Box office 44 5 million 2 The film centers around T J Detweiler and his friends uncovering a plot to get rid of summer vacation taking place at their school It was produced by Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Television Animation and Walt Disney Television Animation Digital Production with animation done by Sunwoo Animation and Sunwoo Digital International The film began production in 1998 during the show s second season and was finished in 2000 The film was distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution premiered on February 10 2001 and was released theatrically in the United States on February 16 2001 The film received mixed reviews from critics and performed well at the box office grossing 44 5 million on a 23 million budget 2 Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Music 3 1 Soundtrack 4 Home media 5 Reception 5 1 Box office 5 2 Critical response 6 References 7 External linksPlot EditA group of men break into a military base and steal a top secret project intending to use Third Street School as their headquarters After pranking on Principal Prickly on the last day of school before summer vacation T J Detweiler is excited to spend the time off with his friends only to be disappointed to learn they will all be attending different summer camps Resigned to spending the summer alone T J notices strange activity at Third Street School Investigating further he sees scientists performing strange experiments with a tractor beam After neither his parents nor the police believe him he goes to Prickly who prepares to show T J the school is empty but is dematerialized when trying to enter the building Desperate T J blackmails his older sister Becky to drive him to all the camps to retrieve his friends They all return with him to Third Street School but accuse him of deceit after recovering a box of inconsequential documents from the school T J s suspicions are verified when they all see a giant laser emerging from the school roof and formulate a plan of camp during the day and meeting up at night After T J finds Prickly s discarded pants with a note reading Help Me in the pocket the gang infiltrate the school to rescue him School snitch Randall Weems who has been eavesdropping on them goes to inform deputy principal Muriel Finster The kids find the auditorium has been turned into a laboratory T J is captured by guards while his friends escape and is imprisoned with Prickly They both discover that Prickly s old friend Dr Phillium Benedict is overseeing the operation inside the school Prickly exposits Benedict s background to T J in 1968 while he Benedict and Finster were all in teacher training Benedict was appointed Principal of Third Street School and proposed abolishing recess to improve test grades Prickly asked the superintendent to encourage Benedict to rescind but when he declined he was replaced as principal with Prickly and Finster dumped him Swearing revenge on Prickly Benedict became secretary of education but was fired by the President for reattempting to abolish recess nationwide While T J s friends review the recovered papers Spinelli finds a date book that mentions lunar perigee taking place at 12 22 pm the next day Gretchen realizes the machine they saw is a tractor beam and concludes that Benedict intends to use it to move the moon when it nears Earth T J and Prickly get to Prickly s office where they discover Benedict s plan to eradicate summer vacation by creating a new permanent Ice Age that will force kids indoors year round Meanwhile T J s friends persuade Becky to drive them to the camps and pick up all the other students while Finster rallies the teachers and Gus takes charge concocting a plan to infiltrate the school As Benedict prepares to enact his plan in the auditorium the students and teachers of Third Street School all attempt to stop him and his henchmen During the ensuing battle Benedict attempts to activate the beam himself but is stopped by Prickly only for Benedict to break the controls and make the process irreversible T J instructs Vince to throw a baseball at the beam which destroys it Finally aware of Benedict s plot the police arrive at the school to arrest him and his henchmen T J s friends decide to spend the rest of their summer together T J thanks Prickly in his office who in turn thanks T J for reminding him why he started teaching to help kids T J then joins his friends as Prickly jokingly reminds T J he will still be reprimanded for his earlier prank when September comes Cast EditAndrew Lawrence as Theodore Jasper T J Detweiler the leader of the Recess gang Rickey D Shon Collins as Vince LaSalle T J s athletic best friend Jason Davis as Mikey Blumberg an obese boy with an operatic singing voice Robert Goulet as Mikey s singing voice This was Goulet s final theatrical film role before his death in 2007 Ashley Johnson as Gretchen Grundler the intelligent strategist of the gang Ashley Tomassian one of the Ashleys Courtland Mead as Gus Griswald a timid boy with high military knowledge Pamela Adlon as Ashley Spinelli a violent short fused tomboy who doesn t really like her first name because of it being associated with the Ashleys group Dabney Coleman as Principal Peter Prickly the principal of Third Street School Melissa Joan Hart as Becky Detweiler T J s older sister who later becomes the assistant manager at Floppy Burger April Winchell as Ms Muriel Finster the deputy principal of Third Street School and a professional boxer Mrs Detweiler T J and Becky s mother James Woods as Dr Phillium Benedict Principal Prickly s former best friend and the mastermind of the plot to eradicate summer vacation Peter MacNicol as Professor Fenwick Dr Benedict s second in command Diedrich Bader as Guard 2 Allyce Beasley as Ms Alordayne Grotke a teacher at Third Street School who specializes in martial arts Gregg Berger as Tech 1 Klee Bragger as Digger Sam Clancy Brown as Kojak AKA Bald Guy Dr Benedict s aggressive chief of security who has an intense dislike for children especially T J Dan Castellaneta as Guard 1 Lane Toran as King Bob Rachel Crane as Ashley Quinlan Elizabeth Daily as Captain Sticky R Lee Ermey as Col O Malley credited as Lee Ermey Ron Glass as Dr Lazenby Tech 2 Tony Jay as Dr Rosenthal the first head scientist who is punished after the tractor beam malfunctions Clyde Kusatsu as Mr Yamashiro Charles Kimbrough as Mort Chalk Tress MacNeille as Lunchlady Irma Opera Director Dr Steinheimer Andrea Martin as Lunchlady Harriet Anndi McAfee as Ashley Armbruster the leader of the Ashleys group Mark Robert Myers as Technician Ryan O Donohue as Digger Dave one of the two diggers Randall Weems the school snitch Philip Proctor as Golfer 2 Scientist 2 Patrick Renna as Jordan Kevin Michael Richardson as Cop 2 Jack Riley as Golfer 1 Justin Shenkarow as Soldier Kid Wrestler Kid Michael Shulman as Hustler Kid Francesca Marie Smith as Ashley Boulet Swinger Girl Upside Down Girl Kath Soucie as Counselor Robert Stack as Superintendent Ken Swofford as Coach Nicholas Turturro as Cop 1 Erik von Detten as Captain Brad Erwin Lawson Paul Willson as Coach Kloogie Mr Detweiler T J and Becky s father Music EditSoundtrack Edit Recess School s Out Original Movie Soundtrack Soundtrack album by Various ArtistsReleasedJanuary 13 2001GenreSoundtrackLabelWalt DisneySingles from Recess School s Out Green Tambourine Dancing in the Street SoundtrackReview scoresSourceRatingAllmusic No TitlePerformerLength1 Dancing in the Street Martha and the Vandellas2 382 Born to Be Wild Steppenwolf3 283 One Three Dog Night3 024 Incense and Peppermints Strawberry Alarm Clock2 465 Wipe Out The Surfaris2 376 Purple Haze Jimi Hendrix2 507 Nobody But Me The Human Beinz2 148 Let the Sunshine In The 5th Dimension2 309 Green Tambourine Robert Goulet2 3710 Recess Suite Denis M Hannigan5 0811 Dancing in the Street Myra3 56Home media EditRecess School s Out was released on VHS and DVD by Walt Disney Home Video on August 7 2001 4 As of November 12 2019 the film along with the series is available to stream on Disney Reception EditBox office Edit The film earned 36 7 million in North America and another 7 8 million from other countries The worldwide gross was 44 5 million against a 23 million budget 2 The film was released in the United Kingdom on July 27 2001 and opened on 7 5 Critical response Edit On Rotten Tomatoes a review aggregator the film has an approval rating of 60 based on 70 reviews with an average rating is 5 8 10 The site s critical consensus reads Though basically a television cartoon stretched out to movie length Recess has enough successful jokes and smart writing to make it a worthwhile view 4 On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 43 out of 100 based on 20 critics indicating mixed or average reviews 6 Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of A on an A to F scale Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gave the film a two and a half stars out of four saying Parents may find it amusing but it doesn t have the two track versatility of Rugrats in Paris which worked for kids on one level and adults on another 7 Bob McCabe of Empire Magazine gave the film a one out of five stars and said Even if it did keep the ankle biters quiet for an hour or so this still wouldn t be worth your money 8 Common Sense Media gave the film a two out of four stars and said Simply a TV episode blown up for the big screen 9 References Edit Recess School s Out American Film Institute Retrieved March 7 2017 a b c d Recess School s Out 2001 Box Office Mojo Retrieved 2015 01 26 Scale Down the Bad Guy in Kids Animated Films The Los Angeles Times Retrieved 2010 11 10 a b Recess School s Out 2001 Rotten Tomatoes Retrieved 2020 11 18 UK Weekend Box Office 27th July 2001 29th July 2001 www 25thframe co uk Retrieved 31 August 2019 Recess School s Out reviews Metacritic Retrieved February 26 2018 Ebert Roger Recess School s Out movie review 2001 Roger Ebert rogerebert Retrieved 2021 05 21 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link Recess School s Out Empire Retrieved 2021 05 21 Recess School s Out Movie Review www commonsensemedia org 2009 08 25 Retrieved 2021 05 21 External links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Recess School s Out Official website Recess School s Out at IMDb Recess School s Out at the TCM Movie Database Recess School s Out at Box Office Mojo Recess School s Out at The Big Cartoon DataBase Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Recess School 27s Out amp oldid 1134987562, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
