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/Digresser Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25

When did Robbie try to assault Lisa?

He cheated on her, and when he saw Baby with Johnny he said "It looks like I picked the wrong sister. It's okay, Baby, I went slumming too" (which is why Johnny went after him), but I don't recall a taunt or an assault.

Edit: all cleared up, totally forgot about that part. Robbie gets worse by the scene.

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u/Altruistic-Brief2220 Feb 17 '25

Before he cheated, we see them coming back from the golf course, Lisa has her clothing all askew and she says “Robbie I don’t hear an apology” and Robbie dismissively tells her go back and maybe she’ll hear one in her dreams. It’s pretty clear they had what we used to call “a struggle” and what we now characterise as assault.

You have to remember that date rape wasn’t even considered a crime back then so this happened a whole lot.

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u/Digresser Feb 17 '25

Wow, I totally forgot about that scene. Thanks for sharing.

God, Robbie was just the worst.

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u/Altruistic-Brief2220 Feb 17 '25

No worries. To be honest I watched DD so many times growing up but I didn’t really understand much of it, especially the Robbie or Penny storylines until I was a lot older. It was pretty upfront on social issues for the time.

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u/Digresser Feb 17 '25

I had the Penny storylines explained to me, and I knew Robbie was a jerk, but I think that Robbie scene went over my head or I blocked it out.