Movie review by Annie Lynne
Rating: ***** 5 out of 5 Stars
The Faculty is about a group of mismatched kids from a small-town highschool in Ohio
(go Ohio!) who have come to the realization that their school is being taken over by
aliens. Casey (Elijah Wood), the school wuss, and Stokely (Clea DuVall), the school
outsider, stumble upon this conclusion after Casey has found an alien creature in the
football field and meets the coach, delivering the hilarious line of "I don't believe
a person should run unless he's being chased" and scoots off to his Science class.
There his teacher (played by Jon Stewart) drops the item into a fishtank and it comes
to life. While Casey is still unsuspicious of anything, he leaves the classroom and
finally figures things out after popular, beautiful cheerleader Delilah (Jordana
Brewster) and Casey find a dead body inside of a closet in the faculty lounge.
Everyone in the lounge is acting differently...drinking lots of water, the pill-
popper isn't popping anymore pills, the smoker isn't smoking. People are different
and Casey finally goes to provide his theory to Stokely, the only person who'll listen.
He finally convinces her as they rush to the science lab where the creature that had
been found earlier was, only to find that it has been taken away. Delilah and her ex-
boyfriend and ex-star quarterback Stan (Shawn Hatosy) stumble upon the scene as Casey
explains his theory. At the same time, the repeating-Senior and smart-but-seemingly-dumb
badass Zeke (Josh Hartnett) and his new-found flame Marybeth (Laura Harris) are in the
Science storage room where he "borrows" (though he prefers to call it stealing) the items
for his own home lab. There he overhears Casey, Stan, Delilah and Stokely arguing about
their new theory and he bursts in, spoiling their conversation. Then the science teacher
comes in and Casey's theory is proved to be fact and in order to kill these creatures,
Zeke finds out that his home-made wonder-dust (affectionately called "scat") dries out
the aliens by stabbing the teacher in the eye and then Zeke does some stuff in his
home laboratory and he finds out that they are a part of a larger organism, like they
have a big queen-bee. If she is killed, it kills them all. Then a lot of cool, scary, hot
stuff happens and finally, of course, when Casey is the only one left, our hero saves
the day. I'm not going to tell you how (in case you haven't seen it...shame on you!) so
you'll have to watch it. But anyways, all in all, it was an awesome movie. And our Elijah
Wood is really cute in it...LoL but seriously I love this movie and I've watched it often.
They are all wonderful actors and deserve a lot of recognition for this movie. I loved it
because this highschool was so segregated and showed that fitting in is not always what
it is cracked up to be...
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