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Valley Girl (1983)

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Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 24
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 4

With engaging performances from its two leads, Valley Girl is a goofy yet amiable film that both subverts and celebrates the cheerful superficiality of teen comedies.

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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 1

With engaging performances from its two leads, Valley Girl is a goofy yet amiable film that both subverts and celebrates the cheerful superficiality of teen comedies.

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A satiric romantic comedy, Martha Coolidge's Valley Girl is a testimony to the short-lived Southern California '80s craze. Julie (Deborah Foreman) is a good-natured teenager following a swarm of pastel pink valley girls, who utter "gag me" at every opportunity. To her friends' dismay , Julie breaks up with her egotistical boyfriend, Tommy (Michael Bowen), while shopping at the mall. All the valley kids go to a party that night, and Tommy immediately tries to bed one of Julie's friends. Randy

R, 1 hr. 35 min.

Drama, Romance, Comedy

Wayne Crawford

Aug 5, 2003

Vestron Video

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All Critics (24) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (4) | DVD (13)

For a change, there aren't any cartoon problem adults on hand as there often are in these pictures.

July 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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This movie is a little treasure, a funny, sexy, appealing story of a Valley Girl's heartbreaking decision: Should she stick with her boring jock boyfriend, or take a chance on a punk from Hollywood?

October 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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With characters as dimensionless as these, the film needs either greater irony or greater sympathy than it demonstrates.

August 30, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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Director Martha Coolidge turned a short-lived fad into a genuine sleeper, an exploitation film that thoroughly transcends its origins to become a highly appealing romantic comedy.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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A classic from a bygone era, Valley Girl has been given the special edition treatment.

September 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

While it's easy to get caught up in the nostalgia of Valley Girl, this datedness also puts some limits on how you can watch the film.

September 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

Insightful and genuine.

July 24, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Cage is very good in the role that got him noticed.

June 13, 2005 Comment
Entertainment Insiders

Dated yet infectious.

April 11, 2004 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

One of the better '80s teen comedies.

September 18, 2003 Full Review | Comment

Color it pastel and cute

August 15, 2003 Full Review Source: ToxicUniverse.com | Comment
ToxicUniverse.com

It's a measure of how, like, totally influential this little film was 20 years ago that there seems to be nothing special about it today.

August 6, 2003 Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | Comment
Flick Filosopher

Coolidge slips some darkness into Valley Girl that never resolves itself with the surrounding sunny void

July 29, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | Comment
Film Freak Central

Ugh! Ick! Gag me with a spoon! This film is an embarrasment.

May 13, 2003 Comment
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Audience Reviews for Valley Girl

Cooly awesome movie Deborah Foreman and Nicolas Cage have great chemistry together!!!!! This is an awesome cult classic. I'm So Sure! (:

February 24, 2008
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Cassie Hill

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The quintessential val movie! This hilarious comedy is an essential for 80s teen movie fans. The plot is like a modern day Romeo and Juliet, but more subtle, as the conflict is that her friends don't like who she's dating (her parents are hippies who're cool with him). I love this movie, it's a fun romantic comedy

September 6, 2010
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