Recess: School's Out

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Recess: School's Out

G,

2001,

1h 22m,

Kids & Family/

Comedy/

Animation

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60%

68 Reviews

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56%

5,000+ Ratings

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56%

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5,000+ Ratings

The school year is finally over, and T.J. Detweiler is looking forward to a fun-filled summer. Boredom quickly sets in until T.J. uncovers a scheme to do away with summer vacation! Former principal Dr. Benedict, who once tried to eliminate recess from the school day, now plans to use a laser beam to alter the weather and create permanent winter. It sure would be tough to go to school year-round, so T.J. calls in all his friends for help.

Critics Consensus

Though basically a TV cartoon stretched out to movie-length, Recess has enough successful jokes and smart writing to make it a worthwhile view.

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Malcolm Ritter

Associated Press

Jan 18, 2018

The kids will like this animated romp about summer vacation, and so will the adults sitting next to them.

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Dec 28, 2010

2/5

Simply a TV episode blown up for the big screen.

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Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Jun 24, 2006

Its well characterised comedy of playground manners and teasing social awareness rings confidently through.

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Chris Gore

Film Threat

Dec 6, 2005

4/5

It has my favorite characters and it's kind of like a mystery.

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John R. McEwen

Film Quips Online

Feb 8, 2003

3.5/5

If you have to take the kids to a low-rent cartoon, this experience at least is enjoyably trippy.

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George R

Apr 2, 2019

Perfectly decent family film with a fun plot, funny characters, and some legit smart emotional moments.

Draco S

Dec 6, 2018

I really liked "Recess: School's Out". TJ and the gang were finding out what was going at Third Street School. The school was sabotaged by creating an invention that needs to take out summer vacation. So the gang asks the kindergarten kids and teachers for help to save the world. I think "Recess: School's Out" is one of my absolute favorite Disney animated films since childhood. This is like kid's stuff. I enjoyed this Disney animated film a lot. Recess: School's Out 3.5/4

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Kylo W

Jul 7, 2018

The characters from the popular Saturday morning TV cartoon series move out of the schoolyard and onto the big screen in this animated feature. New kid Gus (voice of Courtland Mead), nice guy TJ (voice of Andrew Lawrence), tough girl Spinelli (voice of Pamela Segall), cool kid Vince (voice of Rickey D'Shon Collins), overly enthusiastic Mikey (voice of Jason Davis), and brainy Gretchen (voice of Ashley Johnson) are grade school best friends who are psyched about the end of the school year and the arrival of summer vacation. But Principal Prickly (voice of Dabney Coleman) is less than enthusiastic about letting the kids goof off all summer, and evil school administrator Dr. Benedict has come up with a plan to do away with summer vacation by using a super-powered laser to create permanent winter. Teen-pop singer Myra contributes a new version of "Dancing in the Street" to the soundtrack, and Katey Sagal also contributes to the voice cast.

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Hermione S

Sep 2, 2017

Love this movie when I was Younger are you still watch the TV series but now we have a movie of it which is great I find this movie to be funny meant for all ages! Now if you would be looking for a comedy I would recommend this one for instance there's a funny scene with TJ talking on the Mike her phone acting like the principal and the kids hear him which is funny but TJ got caught by the principal but that was a funny scene in the movie that I liked a lot

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Anakin W

Jul 5, 2017

A lazy and hard to follow story

Draco W

Jun 25, 2017

I had just finished the series and this was a great way of ending it.

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Chuck Sheetz

Director

Andrew Lawrence

T.J. Detweiler

Rickey D'Shon Collins

Vince Lasalle

Pamela Adlon

Ashley Spinelli

Jason Davis

Mikey Blumberg

Ashley Johnson

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Synopsis

The school year is finally over, and T.J. Detweiler is looking forward to a fun-filled summer. Boredom quickly sets in until T.J. uncovers a scheme to do away with summer vacation! Former principal Dr. Benedict, who once tried to eliminate recess from the school day, now plans to use a laser beam to alter the weather and create permanent winter. It sure would be tough to go to school year-round, so T.J. calls in all his friends for help.

Director: Chuck Sheetz
Creator: Paul Germain, Joe Ansolabehere
Producer: Paul Germain, Joe Ansolabehere, Stephen Swofford
Screenwriter: Joe Ansolabehere, Paul Germain, Jonathan Greenberg, Jonathan Greenberg
Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
Production Co: Walt Disney Television Animation
Rating: G
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 16, 2001, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $36.7M
Runtime: 1h 22m
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby A, SDDS, DTS, Surround, Dolby Digital, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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