Fast Times At Ridgemont High Reviews
How could they do this to Jennifer Jason Leigh? How could they put such a fresh and cheerful person into such a scuz-pit of a movie?
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| Original Score: 1/4
Netflix
Fast Times has not endured the passage of time.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Was never all it was cracked up to be.
The nice thing is that Crowe and director Amy Heckerling have provided something pleasant to observe in all of these characters though they really are sadly lacking in anything gripping.
Movie Metropolis
...largely prosaic, crude, stereotyped, and pointless.
| Original Score: 5/10
Director Amy Heckerling has failed to provide the raunch or poignancy that would interest young moviegoers, all of whom have seen American Graffiti and its 467 imitators. Ridgemont High? A nice place to visit, but who would want to transfer there?
Creative Loafing
The filmmakers' attempts to capture the "real" high school experience run hot and cold, while the comedy quotient just doesn't cut it.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Time Out
Top CriticLacks the frenzied energy which allowed Porky's to beat all competitors in its field.
Common Sense Media
Teen movie is full of sex, drugs, and misbehavior.
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| Original Score: 4/5
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Arizona Daily Star
The comedy captured the brutal realism of post-sexual-revolution high school life and has been imitated often, rarely equaled, and surpassed only once.
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| Original Score: 4/4
eFilmCritic.com
The great high-school comedy that spawned a thousand rip-offs.
| Original Score: 4.5/5
Moviehole
Fast Times at Ridgemont High has really stood the test of time. Ridgemont will still have you reeling with laughter, and tapping your feet along to those eclectic pop classics.
Combustible Celluloid
Director Amy Heckerling almost encourages the film's shapelessness, letting the individual moments speak for themselves, rather than molding a cohesive whole.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Filmcritic.com
The movie is sublimely funny. And interesting.
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| Original Score: 4/5
