During the summer of 1999, a group of teenagers, through interconnected narratives, live through their last day of high school and prepare for the future. Holly, once the new girl in school, does whatever it takes to remain popular. Dawn, who is secretly a lesbian, battles drugs. Tori is the valedictorian of her class, but, on the eve of graduation, she decides to experiment with drugs for the first time.
This dreck can't even hold a candle to Can't Hardly Wait and prompts the question: Where's this generation's Lloyd Dobler?
– Drew Toal,
Time Out New York,
10 Apr 2008
rotten:
Remember the Daze has the irony-free, instant-nostalgia earnestness of your high school yearbook, but watching it is not likely to conjure your own youthful emotions -- it's more like flipping through the generic memories of a complete stranger.
– James C. Taylor,
L.A. Weekly,
10 Apr 2008
rotten:
Ultimately, the ensemble of more than 20 featured characters seems as vapid as the intentionally caricatured adults who pop up on occasion. Where are this decade's John Hugheses? Or even the Cameron Crowes?
– Laura Kern,
New York Times,
11 Apr 2008
rotten:
[Director Jess] Manafort aims for Dazed and Confused, but falls well short of Can't Hardly Wait.
– Elizabeth Weitzman,
New York Daily News,
11 Apr 2008
rotten:
This movie isn't even sophomoric; it's freshmanic.