Fast Times At Ridgemont High Reviews

Fast Times is a brilliant, funny and often challenging examination of teenage life in the early 1980s.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

Teen movie is full of sex, drugs, and misbehavior.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A cult classic.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Fast Times will always be remembered for one thing: showing respect for and insight into the members of its core audience, something that was as rare in the 1980s as it is today.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Great fun if not quite the great teen pic some believe it to be.

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A brashly funny yet sensitive comedy that has become a cult favorite.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

| Original Score: 4/5

Director Amy Heckerling almost encourages the film's shapelessness, letting the individual moments speak for themselves, rather than molding a cohesive whole.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

[Penn] sets the tone of fun for the whole movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

This R-rated comedy captured the natural humor of high school life, while also addressing serious topics.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

| Original Score: 4/5

Sean Penn's calling never left Mr. Hand's classroom.

| Original Score: 5/5

| Original Score: 4/5

The great high-school comedy that spawned a thousand rip-offs.

| Original Score: 4.5/5

The comedy captured the brutal realism of post-sexual-revolution high school life and has been imitated often, rarely equaled, and surpassed only once.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

| Original Score: 3/5

Pretty dated now, but it's early Penn.

| Original Score: 3/5

a high school comedy gem

| Original Score: 4/5

A jumbled but appealing teen-age comedy with something of a fresh perspective on the subject.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

| Original Score: 4/5