What’s your recurring high school fantasy? You know you have one. Where you return to high school, knowing then … what you know now?
Some settle scores with bullies using newly acquired black belts; some ask out the prettiest girl who'd granted that one chance we were too clueless to recognize until years later, whereupon we said, “doh!” and palm-smacked our heads. Some hit that jumper that banged off the rim and lost the big game.
Remember Napoleon Dynamite’s high school football-obsessing uncle? There’s a little of that idiot in all of us.
American high school movies are an American subculture, and while “Paper Towns“ is nowhere near the caliber of a ”Dazed and Confused,“ and has half the energy of that other (now ancient) film about Florida high-schoolers (”Porky’s"), it’s a respectable new entry into the genre.
