This fly-o-the-wall high school movie is well worth the time. The relentless satire on a whole basket of classic public high school tropes is wonderfully understated, left for the viewer to remember and appreciate, and I truly did.

The director went for the signature Canadian technique of banning all BIG. DRAMATIC. SCENES from the footage and frowning at "acting", rather than just responding like you would if that really happened. Everyone behaves like the bored, slightly annoyed, doing their best, passive aggressive, vaguely desperate people we all are. This frustrates some viewers who are accustomed to, shall we day, other nations' cinematic conventions, where the drama (or in a comedy, the jokes) are signaled to the audience with fakey delivery that no-one would tolerate in real life.

And it really works here. A favourite example: after the coach tries to get the team to adopt a gung-ho jock attitude, he's told, "But this is just a high school basketball team." And another player adds, "In Calgary."

That zinger is so many levels deep it kept me laughing for several minutes. The fact that the actors half-mumbled it, like actual real-life teenagers, was the dunk.

This was something I turned on just because it was there, and ended up ignoring everything else I had to do tonight to watch all the way through. The title needs work, but if you ever went to high school, and like brilliant, genre-busting comedy -- the kind that doesn't elicit many "haw-haw" fits but keeps you smiling from start to finish -- this is for you.