Dangerous Minds (DVD) Reviews

The 90s saw a run of films that featured colleges and school, often with violent and disruptive students at their core, and a teacher who came in and made a difference. John N Smith's 1995 film Dangerous Minds is no different. Set in an inner city school, it features an ex-marine (Michelle Pfeiffer) who comes into a school and is ...  Read the complete review

Here's a classic of the genre that is inner city urban school drama. Michelle Pfeiffer stars as Louanne, an ex-marine teacher struggling to teach an inner city school full of yobs. This film, at its worst, is a predictable and cliche inner city school drama, and with that comes it being really really easy to guess the general plot. ...  Read the complete review

Dangerous Minds is a rather predicatble film as it follows the theme of a teacher who goes into a tough inner city school and wins over the disillusioned students, it has been done in various formats over the years from Please Sir to the sporting linked Coach Carter. In this film it is Michelle Pfeiffe playing Louanne Johnson who after serving ...  Read the complete review

This classic 90s film sees Michelle Pfeiffer deliver one of her best performances as Luanne Johnson - the teacher hired to try and educate a group of under-privileged, uninterested high school kids in LA. After initially struggling to get the kids' attention, Johnson tells them about her background in the US Marines, captivating the ...  Read the complete review

The whole teacher goes into a tough inner city school and wins over the disillusioned students has been done a few times over the years and this version has a female lead in the form of Michelle Pfeiffe playing LouAnne Johnson who after serving with the marines and then leaving the service becomes a teacher in a tough California ...  Read the complete review

Ex US Marine, LouAnne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer)has accomplished many respectable things in her life but for her that just isn't enough; she now wants to take on her biggest and most challenging job to date... teaching. When arriving at Parkmont High School, California for her first day of teaching she is shocked and outraged to discover how the ...  Read the complete review

One of my favourite type of film is the sort where you get a teacher who comes along and does something wonderful with a bunch of tough kids. The best of these has to be 'To Sir with Love'; which is a wonderfully inspiring film, but as I watched Dangerous Minds on DVD last night, I could not help but notice many striking ...  Read the complete review

***Please note this is a film only review*** Introduction ========== What first got me interested in this film was the soundtrack by Coolio, Gangsta’s Paradise, if it had not been for that song I think I would have dismissed this film and still be waiting to see it now. I have only seen this film once when it ...  Read the complete review

Dangerous Minds is often shown on ITV1, but every time it’s shown I manage to miss it. Last Friday night, though, I remembered and set the video to record it. I’d heard many a good things about it over the years, and before watching it I knew it was going to be great viewing. Michelle ...  Read the complete review

LouAnne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer) or Miss. Johnson to her students is a middle-aged, recently divorced ex-marine desperately in need of a job. She turns to teaching and sees a rosy job description and thinks its ideal. Though as she soon finds out she’s teaching in a touch inner-city school where her students are rebellious and ...  Read the complete review

Dangerous minds! What a title! The first though that game into my mind was a film of violence and degradeability, but no! This film to me was inspiring, and has become one of my favourites in my video colletion. I may only be 15 years old, and run along with teenage fashion, trends and cultures, but I am an individual and I have the right to ...  Read the complete review

Dangerous Minds. I don’t think this film ever got the credit it deserved at the box office. This is a quality but predictable drama starring Michelle Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer plays a teacher who’s pay depends on results, when working at a touch inner school that leaves little left in your already small pay-packet. Pfeiffer brings in a new ...  Read the complete review

This is a good film starring Michelle Pfeiffer as Miss Johnson, a recently divorced woman in need of a job. It begins where she applies for and gets a position teaching a class of rebellious students. Unfortunately the interviewing teacher forgot to inform her of how much of a challenge she was taking on. The entire class consists of street kids ...  Read the complete review

Michelle Pfeffer is absolutely brilliant in this film, the story line is good, it will have you gripped from the very beginning. The story is about a class of 'problem' kids in a school in a bad part of town. This class has a certain reputation and can not keep the same teachers for long....because they harrass them. So ...  Read the complete review