High Schoolers

High Schoolers, known in some territories as High Scholars, is an upcoming 2021 American 3D adult computer-animated adventure teen comedy-drama film directed by the writing duo Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley and produced by Seth Rogen, Neal H. Moritz, and Evan Goldberg. It is produced by Point Grey Pictures, Universal Animation Studios (in its first adult animated film) and Original Film (also its first animated film) and distributed by Universal Pictures. It will be released on November 24, 2021. Sony Pictures Imageworks will handle the animation for the characters while Universal Animation will do the background.

The movie has been released on November 24, 2021 with positive reviews. It was also a box-office success, grossing over $325 million, becoming Point Grey's highest-grossing film. It was rereleased on January 18-21, 2022, and once again as the unrated version on February 12-16, 2022 as High Schoolers: Gone Unrated.

Plot
An 10th grader boy named David 'D.J' Myrick (Seth Rogen) gets up, and prepares himself for an special day to prepare for the Indians-Wildcats game. He grabs his breakfast and bids goodbye to his mom. He goes to the bus and the song plays. (Plot in progress)

Cast

 * Seth Rogen as David Jones "D.J." Myrick, the main protagonist
 * Ginnifer Goodwin as Stacie Aday, the deutagonist
 * Freddie Prinze Jr. as Collin Brady, Stacie's best friend and the tritagonist
 * Keith Ferguson as Kadarius "K.D." Wilson, the main antagonist who prefers K.D
 * Anna Kendrick as Mrs. April Clark, an teacher who was the first one who discovered K.D. locked them.
 * Kristen Wiig as Ashleigh Jefferys, D.J.'s girlfriend. Wiig also voiced Haley Grace Malone, the tetartagonist of the movie.
 * Edward Norton as Logan Wisdom; Alex Gomez (Alex is one of the antagonists.)
 * Jonah Hill as Lucas Craft
 * Zac Efron as Austin Smith; Aaron Duncan
 * Craig Robinson as Keenan Steele, an minor antagonist
 * Phil LaMarr as Asante Perkins
 * Bill Hader as Wesley Ledlow; Zachary Ledlow (Zac is one of the antagonists who is part of K.D's pack.)
 * Kate Winslet as Morgan Brooke Bendall; Heather Adams. Morgan is one of the two pentagonists.
 * Anne Hathaway as Lagan Ann Fuller, an 11th grader and one of the tritagonist. She, along with Haley, are the most popular characters.
 * Selena Gomez as Haley Flanagan, an 11th grader and one of the tritagonists. She, along with Lagan, are the most popular characters.
 * Zoe Saldana as Clara Corona
 * Lara Jill Miller as Breanna Jefferys, Laeden Jefferys; Mrs. Whitney Swinney; Cheyenne; Jessica Newell
 * Grey DeLisle as Chloe Mercier; Aleia Kelsey; Alexis Marie Boyd; Audrianna Flanagan; Mrs. Kristie Walker
 * Nicole Oliver as Cassandra 'Angela' Juarez; Elisha Preston (Preston's one of the two pentagonists)
 * James Franco as Ethan Davis; Mr. Chris Corsbie
 * Ashleigh Ball as Jasmine Todd; Savannah Ledlow; Ariel Monroe
 * Shannon Chan-Kent as Baylee Hope King; Ariel Naylor
 * Conrad Vernon as Mr. Brian Dolan; Trey Davis (Davis's one of the antagonist.)
 * Danny McBride as A school bus driver
 * Genndy Tartakovsky as Trent Davis; Austin Smith (11th) (Austin's one of the antagonists)

Release
The first red band trailer was released on February 18, 2021 with the green band version releasing the next day.

The second red band trailer was released on June 4, 2021 while the green band version came out on August 21, 2021.

It's final trailer, both red and green band, was released on October 24, 2021.

The movie was released theaterically on November 24, 2021, and released on U.K. on December 10, 2021.

Home media
The movie, both R-rated theaterical version and the unrated version, was released on DVD and Blu-Ray on Feburary 22, 2022. The unrated version included more scenes, more bad words, more sexual references, and the orgy scene. Special features included outtakes, deleted scenes, commentary, and behind the scenes.

Unrated
The unrated version, titled High Schoolers: Gone Unrated, had a limited theaterical release. It included more scenes, more bad words, more sexual references, and the orgy scene.

Rating
The movie is rated R for pervasive language, sexual references, brief nudity and some drug use. The movie was rated 15 in UK and 14A (18A on Alberta and British Columbia) in Canada.

Variants

 * Universal Pictures - none
 * Original Film - Normal, but now has the logo music.
 * Point Grey - We see the pencils, books, sharpeners, and markers inside, as it closes, the school supplies fall to the floor except for the pencils, erasers and the pencil box, which they fall into the desk, after that, the "Point Grey" is drawn.

Quotes
High Schoolers/Quotes

Transcript
High Schoolers/Transcript

High Schoolers/TV Spots and Trailers

Outfits
High Schoolers/Outfits

Original songs

 * Best Day Ever by The High Schoolers Cast
 * Best Day Ever (reprise) by The High Schoolers Cast (including Stacie, Lagan, Logan, Haley, Haley Malone, The Teachers and Caitlin)

Songs heard in the film

 * Behind Blue Eyes by Limp Bizkit
 * In the End by Linkin Park
 * Slow Motion by Nickelback (Note: This song is used in the Climax)
 * Hell Yeah by Midnight Red

Trailer songs

 * Wiggle by Jason DeRulo ft. Snoop Dogg
 * Still Waiting by Sum 41 (TV Spots)

Critical response
High Schoolers recieved positive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes had the score of 78%. The site's critical consensus reads "Funny, sexy and heartwarming, Rogen does it again with the R-rated High Schoolers." On MetaCritic, it had a score of 80 of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews". On CinemaScore, it was given an "B+".

TV Series
Main article: High Schoolers: The Chronicles of D.J and Friends

Due to the film's critical and commercial success, Original Film and Point Grey Pictures announced that the movie will be adapted into a television series with Warner Bros. Animation developing the cartoon with Snipple Animation. The series will be created by Lauren Faust and Genndy Tartakovsky with Rogen and Goldberg executive producing.

International Release

 * U.S.A (Dolby Theatre): October 17, 2021
 * Poland: October 29, 2021
 * Canada: November 24, 2021
 * U.S.A: November 24, 2021

Theaterical release

 * Budweiser hosted a sweepstakes for the movie.
 * Red Robin promoted the movie by giving out the High Schoolers can coolers, as there are six to collect. In addition, a new burger, called The High School Burger, was introduced to promote the film, where it contained pepperjack cheese, bacon, onion rings, French fries, tomatoes, pickles, and lettuce in the burger.

DVD Release
More soon...

MPAA
2 months before the film was theaterically released, the movie was assigned a NC-17 rating due to the orgy scene, but Seth wanted the film R-rated, so he removed the orgy scene in order to be reassigned a R rating, and a day later, it was successfully reassigned a R rating.

Credits
High Schoolers/Credits

Sequel
The sequel, High Schoolers: Back 2 School will be released on November 2023. Rogen was in talks to make Lagan and Haley the protagonists.

Games
An game, tiled High Schoolers: School Rush, will be developed for mobile devices. You have got to be 15 or older in order to play the game.

An console game, titled High Schoolers: Haley's Bad Day, is released 7 months after the film release. It is confirmed to be set 3 months after the events of the film, and will have a Conker's Bad Fur Day-styled gameplay.

Crossovers
High Sausage School Party

An Insane High School Surprise

Trivia

 * Due to the fact the orgy scene isn't included in the theaterical release version of the film, it is the first Point Grey Pictures film to not include any orgy scenes (Sausage Party: Dawn of the Humans doesn't count because even though there wasn't an orgy scene in the sequel, but is seen in flashbacks from the first film.).
 * It also makes it Point Grey Pictures' first lightest film.
 * However, there was originally gonna be an orgy scene, but was removed in order to avoid an NC-17 rating.
 * You can see the orgy scene in unrated version.
 * Interestingly, the students and teachers are seen having the orgy in their clothes.
 * More interestingly, the male students and teachers' dicks are covered with censor bars despite being the Unrated version.
 * This is the third animated film by Point Grey Pictures, first being Sausage Party and second being its sequel, Sausage Party: Dawn of the Humans.
 * Apparently, this film comes out 5 months after the release of Sausage Party: Dawn of the Humans.
 * In the deleted scenes, girls that were in the background named Hannah Abernathy, Laila Teleja and Lyndsey Joiner talked, indicating that they were originally going to have a talking appearence in the film.
 * There are a lot of bad words uses in this film including:
 * Fuck - 86 (100 in Unrated)
 * Shit - 20 (49 in Unrated)
 * Bitch - 7 (9 in Unrated)
 * Cunt - 5 (10 in Unrated)
 * Whore - 4
 * Cock - 3 (5 in Unrated)
 * Bastard - 4 (6 in Unrated)
 * Pussy - 6
 * Damn - 3
 * Goddamn - 3 (7 in Unrated)
 * Ass - 5 (6 in Unrated)
 * Dick - 1 (5 in Unrated)
 * Douchebag - 3
 * This, along with sexual references, are the reasons why the movie is rated R.
 * This is also Point Grey Pictures' first film without having Salma Hayek, Michael Cera, David Krumholtz and Paul Rudd involved.
 * Despite not having the "strong crude sexual content", the film has sexual references.
 * Samurai Jack makes a cameo as a poster in the auditorium room where Haley is hiding in.
 * Coincedentally, Samurai Jack was created by Genndy Tartakovsky, and he is one of the 3 directors of the film.
 * For some ways, the movie shares some similarities with the Sausage Party series, because:
 * Both are computer-animated (However, Nitrogen provides the animation for both the 2016 film, and it's 2021 sequel, while Reel FX provides the animation for this film.)
 * Both are produced by Point Grey Pictures
 * Both are rated R by the MPAA
 * Tim Miller was attracted to direct the movie, but due to his involvement with the Deadpool series, he left and was replaced by duo Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley.
 * This is the second Point Grey Pictures film to release on an November date, after 2015's The Night Before.
 * It was Point Grey's fourth film to be distributed by Universal Pictures, it's rather than Columbia Pictures. The first being Neighbors, second being its sequel Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising and third being The Something.
 * On the teaser poster, the font was different, but when the red band trailer gets released, it was changed into the High school-font, the same font as its logo.

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