School Daze

A teeming showcase of invigorating performances...

The problem isn’t with School Daze; the problem is with a white culture that cannot deal with the spectacle of blacks on-screen on their own terms.

Lee has a small, intimate talent; here, he goes for the big podium and blows it.

The film's central argument is that black matriculation is undercut by internal divisions.

For every tough-minded confrontation between the different student factions, School Daze is apt to offer a love scene less than vital to the plot, or an overlong musical scene whose effect is that of treading water.

Borrowing the tropes from classical Hollywood musicals, early exploitation cinema and the popularity of the college raunch comedy, Lee subverts the values of the dominant social ethics and reaches into the heart of artifice ripping...

An often insightful, often amateurish comedy-drama-musical.

There are some technical issues that Spike brings into films...I enjoyed the conversations that came from this movie...but as a standalone film, it was boring at times.

What a great launching pad for a lot of different actors...it's a movie that gets the conversation going, and I really liked the musical scene.