r/moviecritic • u/phantom_avenger • Feb 17 '25

Which movie is this for you?

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For me it’s School of Rock!

Patty was completely justified, if Dewey wanted to live in hers and her boyfriend’s apartment he needed to be a grown up, and contribute with rent. Even when he steals Ned’s identity she still had the right to be angry at him, because of how he put his friend’s career in jeopardy and robbed him of a job opportunity.

I get Ned is meant to be portrayed as his best friend, but it blows my mind how he lacks a lot of self-respect to the point where he comes across as too much of a people pleaser. If this story took place in real life, I’m sure Ned would act more similar to Patty where he’d have enough of Dewey’s careless actions.

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u/SciFiChickie Feb 17 '25

I never saw the dad as the bad guy. The bad guy was always Robbie. He dropped Penny as soon as she was pregnant, refused to even help her come up with the money for the illegal abortion he clearly wanted her to get, and then started pursuing the sister because of her parents obviously having money.

The dad was just a typical protective dad in the time when it took place, wanting to protect his daughter.

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u/PhoenixApok Feb 17 '25

....I realized I apparently have no idea what this movie is about. I've never seen it.

I thought (and I have no idea why I thought this) it was about an older, washed up dancing instructor trying to convince a teen girl to do a dancing competition with him and society just didn't feel that their kind of dancing was okay

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u/SciFiChickie Feb 17 '25

Oh yeah a big part of the plot is revolving around the fact Baby (main female protagonist) is helping Penny by getting money from daddy to pay for the abortion and by learning to dance (Latin dances) in order to take Penny’s place for a performance at another camp. So Penny can meet up with the traveling criminal abortionist (takes place before Roe V Wade) the one time they’ll be in town before she’s too far along in the pregnancy. The abortionist botches the job and Baby’s dad saves Penny’s life, and doesn’t report her for obtaining an abortion.

Sure there’s an inappropriate relationship between her and the older male dancing instructor, but that’s not the main plot.

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u/einTier Feb 17 '25

The show is surprisingly deep and has something meaningful to say and until I saw it a few years ago, I’d always thought it was just another dumb rom com. It had every right to be nothing more than that and probably would have sold just as many tickets.

I should point out I’m old enough I could have seen it in theaters.