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Degrassi High - School's Out [VHS]

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This was the best ending!!! It left me wanting sooooo much more. I loved how real the kids got. They were literaly cursing and telling each other off!!! I can't believe what Joey did to Caitlin and I can't believe Wheels! WOW!!! It was full of surprises and everyones life changes forever in the movie. BRAVO Degrassi! Thank you for staying true to the characters and NEVER disappointing. I wish tv was more like the great writing we had on Degrassi. Any True Degrassi fan will really enjoy this movie. Also I'm sooooooooo very happy that The N channel still plays Degrassi, The New Generation, because a lot of where this movie ended is updated on the new season of the show YIPPEEEE!!! We get to see more of Spike, Snake, Joey, I even saw Wheels, Shane, Liz, the twins, and of course Caitlin. Now if only they could get rid of the new generation kids and get back to the heart and soul of Degrassi, and thats the origional cast!!!! Anyway I'll take what I can get. Its great seeing what has become of everyone!

When I was 14, my favorite show was Degrassi High. Being from the States, I was under the will of my local PBS station as to when it was on. Ten years later, I have a few episodes on tape and enjoy them as much now as I did then. This movie is made different from the series itself, but it a fun to visit the characters one last time. I had a lot of fun watching it, but I was very disapointed in the ending. That's all I'll say.

I used to watch Degrassi when I was in like the 6th grade on PBS. I absolutely loved it~ then I forgot about it for many many years until now when I happened to catch it by mistake while flipping channels.

I got hooked once again and was so glad to see that they made this final movie length finale.~ I was shocked to see them cursing and being bad like normal teenagers!! It was such a breath of fresh air. The story line was so well written and real. My faves were always Caitlyn and Joey~ and I was am so happy the movie mostly revolved around them. It would have been nice to see what happened to Melanie, Kathleen, Maya, Arthur, Dwayne (the kid that got AIDS). But I guess they weren't available to be a part of this super last episode.

This movie is definitely a keeper! I am so glad I ordered it~ I hope to show this to my children one day.~

I loved this movie even though I hated Joey's cheating on Caitlin with Tessa and the horrible event that forever changed Wheels and Lucy's lives.This movie left me wanting to see more.While it is wonderful to see characters from the old Degrassi series(Snake,Spike,Joey & Caitlin)on Degrassi:The New Generation,I would much rather have seen them go on and have a series revolve around them and other former Degrassi characters.I love the onscreen chemistry between Stacie Mistisyn(Caitlin)& Pat Mastroianni(Joey).That still have IT!!!:-)

Wow what a great ending for Degrassi, heart break, tragedy, and of course drama. Even if you ain't a fan of Degrassi, I reccomend people to watch.

I used to watch this on PBS when I was 14 and I actually only watched it because it aired right after my favorite program at the time and out of nowhere it had me hooked and began to be my new favorite program.

When the series was cancelled in '91 I was really sad because I got so caught up in these characters lives and I didn't want to see them go. And it got cancelled right when it started to get really interesting too. The character Duane had Aids, Wheels was getting back on track, Lucy found a boyfriend, LD had cancer (whatever did happend to her????)Caitlin and Joey were getting back together....I was heated.

I'd never heard of "School's out" until like the year 2000...8 years after! It's never been aired here in the USA and no one has ever talked about it. (Degrassi is a guilty pleasure by alot of people)

Thank god for the internet because I found Degrassi fans like myself and heard about it. So now I can see what happened after I was left hanging when it was cancelled. It's really a tough movie to get your hands on but I finally got it.

The stories didn't end up where I thought it would.

Alot of other main characters were missing:

Arthur, Melanie, Maya(the girl in the wheelchair)

Michelle, and a few other characters that I was used to seeing.

The story seemed to mostly surround Caitlin and Joey,with a few other tiny subplots ie, Simon and Alexa getting engaged,and the small speaking parts by cast regulars(mostly getting high or drunk believe it or not)

I was really shocked to hear them cursing using the "F" word...especially Caitlin.

We all had our favorite characters but I guess Caitlin and Joey were the reason this series was hot towards the end so the writers wrote a story around them.

Anyways I wanted more from this movie,and yet again just when it starts to get more interesting...it ends...again.

So thank god now for Nogin having Degrassi the next generation where we can still see our old degrassi characters and see how everything really turned out.

I can imagine seeing this movie back in '92 and thinking that's it forever for the Degrassi series. Well if you've been watching The Next generation and then watched "School's out" afterwards you won't go away with any sad feelings because as I said before you know what happens to your favorite main characters:

Joey: owner of Jeremiah Motors

Caitlin: Popular TV personality (who'd have thought)

Snake: A Teacher at Degrassi and now married to Spike (who'd have thought)

Spike:Owner of her own salon

Liz (Spike's cynical punk rocker friend)is now a Doctor

Lucy:is now an award making Filmaker (in real life as well)

My overall taking on this rare movie is that it will still not bring any closure to fans because it went where nobody thought it would in a sad ending...but it was still a realistic ending.

I like the movie because it stared the Degrassi cast, but it didn't give updates on all the characters, like Spike she was my favorite she only had a few lines. I think the writers should have made it a little more like the episodes (they were good). I really feel like I wasted money buying the movie I should have bought episodes instead.

1) Some people will be disappointed in the ending to this movie, but Degrassi never pulled punches and this movie makes no attempt to tie up loose ends with a happy face. It is the perfect legacy to this fine, realistic series.

2) I ordered this tape from Amazon, and be warned, this version of the movie is NOT the clean-language version. Mr. Raditch would be mortified...

....I must say that I was greatly disappointed and let down by the way the writers/producers chose to end such a fine series. Most of the characters are accounted for here, and if you miss one of you favorites, chances are you can catch a glimpse of him/her making a token appearance, dancing in the backround during the final few scenes. The main problem is that these characters, characters that we've come to know and love so well over the years, have been made very dark in this sorry video. Deceit, vengence, petty jealousy, and overall stupidity are the main virtues within the characters of the Degrassi 'kids', now. Without giving away plot specifics, here are a couple of examples to better illustrate my point: Joey, after having come so far in the way of 'growing up', does a complete 180 in this movie, and sinks to even greater depths of deceit by cheating on the ever trusting and unsuspecting Caitlin. He is made out to be an incredibly insensitive, lying weasel in this video. Meanwhile, Derek 'Wheels' Wheeler also suffers a major downturn -- again, after rebounding from so many other setbacks during the regular series -- that makes the viewer cry out to the writers "WHY CAN'T YOU GIVE THIS POOR KID A BREAK? HASN'T HE BEEN THROUGH ENOUGH? ". It looks very bad for poor Wheels. We are left with the knowledge that our friend will not have an easy time of it, and that's very unfair. It was unfair of the writer(s) to paint a none too rosey future for several of the Degrassi kids. Yes, life is often-times unfair, but it was just a movie. A movie which should have bid a very fond farewell to these good kids. Call it fantasy (wait a minute -- it IS fantasy, isn't it? I mean, they could have ended any way they wanted to) but I would have appreciated a good'ol- fashion happy ending for one and ALL. They deserved it, after having been so kind in helping us better educate our children. I do appreciate Playing With Time's effort, but I am forced to, at least in my own mind, re-write their Degrassi Movie. Mine has a much happier ending.

Raditch

I didn't know about this movie until just a couple years ago. I heard so many bad/tragic details about it that I didn't want to see it but finally I was overcome with curiosity so I watched it on YouTube and I agree, it is very stupid and the characters act out of character but I guess that sells. So tragic about Wheels, he had been such a nice guy but he never held himself accountable for his bad decisions and always used his parents' death as an excuse to behave badly...however, pleading guilty is a good sign that he is facing up. Wow Canada must be pretty liberal. Where do they get all the beer? I think Lucy should have used better judgment and known better not to get in the car with a driver who constantly had a beer in his hand--Joey and Snake, too! Lucy is old enough, she should have offered to drive for Wheels. But, of course, it is a movie and if she had, it wouldn't be a movie. The people in the movie and living very frivilously and carelessly. Didn't anyone learn anything about the Great Depression which followed the wild roaring 20's? Oh well, that is what makes it a movie, like I said.