Stars: Jason Davis, Melissa Joan Hart, Peter MacNicol, Ashley Johnson, Pamela Segall, Courtland Mead

Director: Chuck Sheetz

Summary: A former principal of the school has devised a scheme to control the weather and make it permantly winter, this will mean that the students will never get a summer break!. T.J. Detweiler calls on the others to help save the day...

In this animated film from Disney, based on the popular children's television show RECESS, the evil school principal Dr. Benedict is trying to eliminate summer vacation from the calendar. To do so, he has devised a way to alter the weather and make it perpetually winter. To help the save summer vacation, T.J. Detweiler gets the teachers and students to band together, determined to stop the principal's deranged plans.

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Disney's Recess: School's Outdipped in and out of cinemas faster than fans of the cable TV show could snap their lunch boxes shut--kind of nice for parents whose idea of grown-up detention is sitting through such fly-by-night features for children. Now that home screenings are an option, though, plan for the ages 5-and-older set to settle in for reruns. Also plan to get sucked in yourself--if the screwball plot doesn't do it, the soundtrack will. While TJ and Principal Prickly (the latter the unfortunate bearer of the "saggy butt" that becomes this movie's clunkiest running gag) bust in on a crew of fiendish would-be teachers during summer break, slices of vintage grooviness--Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild,"Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense and Peppermints," and Robert Goulet's "Green Tambourine" among them--get you cheering along, whether you're 3 or 43. The reason for all the retro funkiness revolves around the chief bad guy, Phil Benedict, a one-time educational visionary and former Prickly schoolmate. Benedict was a radical school revolutionary, but his manifesto for better test scores misfired when it called for a ban on recess, a concept so barbaric it got him canned from a cushy government job. Now, undeterred in his mission to make life miserable for children, he's hatching a "switcheroo" scheme that will forever pull the shade on summer and thus summer vacation. Predictably, right at trigger time, TJ, Prickly, and the gang roar in to the rescue. It's an ending that's as pat as any on the TV show, but so what--this is a movie that aims for summer-linen lightness. Just as the Fifth Dimension promise on the soundtrack, it lets the sunshine, as well as a few well-timed chuckles, in. --Tammy La Gorce, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	1.66 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Recess Digital Comic Book The Trouble With Shorts, Recess Schoolyard Challenge Game, Animation Camp, Green Tambourine Music Video, Dancing In The Streets Music Video, Theatrical Trailer, 10 Secrets Of Recess
Subtitles:	English, French, German
Year:	2001
Release Date:	June 19, 2006
Runtime:	83 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B E D 888344
Keywords:	Animated, Out, Family, Movie, General, Wide, Screen, Animation, Childrens, School's, Disney's, Recess
Genre:	Childrens