It's clear I'm not a part of the movie its target audience but to be fair, I can still see this movie entertain those, to whom this movie got targeted, which are 14-16 year old girls, or something close to that.

As simple and incredibly straightforward as this movie is, it does serves its purpose well enough. There really isn't much to the story but I do believe that girls are still going to appreciate it, as well as its characters and situations. It puts a young girl, played by Miley Cyrus, in the lead and makes her the sort of action-hero-star of the movie. Not that the movie is spectacular in any way or is filled with action but I still believe that it's a strong, young, female character, that young girls look up to and want to be like.

Not that Miley Cyrus is all that great though. As weird as it may sound, she actually feels a too old for the part. She is just too mature looking and sounding to play a school girl, even though the plot still involves she is a detective, who's going undercover at a college, as a student.

It's actually amazing how incredibly bland and uninteresting the story was. To be frank, I even had absolutely no idea what it all was supposed to be about in the first place. But strangely enough this didn't made this movie an horrible one to watch. It's probably because the movie is a very tame and innocent movie, in which nothing ever gets annoying or exaggerated. Even the characters, comedy and dialog were all tolerable in this, which was something I didn't really expected from this movie.

It's not a great movie by any means but it still works out well within its genre is definitely a watchable one for, lets say, 14-16 year old girls.

5/10

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(Review originally written at 6 October 2007)

Basically this is a great comedy to watch late at night. It's nothing too fancy or original but it's basically good quality entertainment, from a great genre director and a real solid cast, filled with some of the best actors currently active in the genre.

The real most surprising thing about "Old School" is its cast. It's not only filled with some great leading actors but also lots of famous faces in small roles and cameos, such as Juliette Lewis, Elisha Cuthbert, Seann William Scott and Harve Presnell, among others. But of course the movie gets carried by the three main leading men; Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn. Will Ferrell is such a show stealer! He has the best moments and lines in the movie. And Vince Vaughn once again shows that he is a great actor actually.

Perhaps the concept of the movie called for some more and better thought of jokes but nevertheless the movie doesn't feel as if it's not entertaining enough already now. In the end not all of the plot-lines get wrapped up properly or satisfactorily but you know, in a comedy you just tend to forgive this sort of storytelling flaws.

What I liked about the movie is that it greatly mixes the comical and the more dramatic and personal elements of the movie. The one doesn't distract from the other, which is I think due to the professional genre directing of genre specialist Todd Phillips, who also directed movies such as "Road Trip" and "Starsky & Hutch".

It's probably not a comedy that will go in the books as the most hilarious or best one of all time but the movie serves its purpose and that's to simply entertaining the viewer, with more than a couple of good laughs.

6/10