DjBeau

I saw Grande Ecole at its world premiere on the Rotterdam Film Festival. I had no idea what I was entering and if I'd had any idea I wouldn't have entered. This is the most pretentious film I've seen for a long time. It tries to be provocative, yet deep, with its full frontal homosexual sex scenes - it doesn't succeed! It's nothing but another bad excuse of showing naked persons on the big screen. 4/10

Well, according to people who have more knowledge of the history of film than I this film has been of great importance to the Danish film industry. That might be right but it just doesn't do anything for me.

One of the main problems is that there are almost only kids in the main roles. Of course there has to be, it is a movie about growing up, after all. But it's a problem as most of them can't really act. It's just too sheepish. I'll have to admit that it captures the situations you experience when you're young perfectly. But it's not enough.

It is worth watching if you're living in Aarhus, Denmark, though... Kind of interesting real life locations if you know 'em :-)

Indy is cool, but the movie is not. Basically Indy is just Han Solo dressed in a cowboy hat and a whip. That's probably why he is so damn cool.

I think the movie is, well, entertaining, but it's just too fake in some way. Indy, the Chinese boy and the lady are thrown into the adventure without a decent prologue. Could've been way better.