Recess: School\'s Out

Summer vacation was a great time for all. As Alice Cooper says, "No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks." Everyone has great memories of summer vacation, and those memories will never leave. Disney's new animated movie "Recess: School's Out" brings those memories flooding back.\nThe movie is based on a Saturday morning cartoon about a group of fourth-graders hanging out during recess and the adventures they have. This movie has the same premise except it takes place during the summer. And this is no normal adventure. \nAll of T.J.'s (voiced by Andrew Lawrence) friends have gone off to camp, and he is all alone for what he thought would be the greatest summer ever. The group comprises the smart nerd at space camp, the really cool athletic kid at baseball camp and the fat kid at theater camp. There is a good representative for every different type of kid just like elementary schools across the nation. \nWith all of T.J.'s friends gone, he gets depressed and bored until he sees something weird happening in the closed-for-summer elementary school. T.J. then finds out that ex-principal Dr. Benedict (James Woods) has hatched a plan to make a permanent winter and ruin summer vacation forever.\nNow this is a kid's movie, but it is an outstanding one. It's not just a good animated film; it's actually just a really good film for both kids and adults. The filmmakers must have realized parents would be at the movie with their children, so the writers added little things to make these parents like it just as much as their kids. Throughout the movie there are jokes geared for an older audience that only people with a high school education would understand. \nNot only that, but it really reminds older audiences how cool it was to be a kid. Memories rush back of playing during the summer and how much fun it was being in fourth grade. This movie was put together so anyone of any age would enjoy it. It's funny, it's sad, it's dramatic and it's suspenseful. This is a great movie for the kid in everybody.