Nice effects though.

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

I think we all know Ferris Bueller is more of an embodiment of the envies of high school, and his best friend Cameron whom he manipulates is the outsider looking in. And perhaps there are other deep studies that could be made about many of the characters-- including the hilarious bit-role from Charlie Sheen-- but let's face it, that's not why we watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off. However, it is worth mentioning that the profiles made of all the characters work so well in the flow of the day and the interactions that take place.For those who haven't seen this movie that's considered a classic, you will not get laughs-a-minute where you consistently give small chuckles to clever lines. And those types of movies can be great (look at Airplane! and The Lego Movie), but that's not what this is. And that's okay. Instead, you have a fleshed out adventure in one day from John Hughes that gives situation after situation where he knows exactly what he wants. The slightly off-kilter vibe separates the movie from others like it, and the result is many genuine laughs. I'm not here to say it's a classic, but it is hard to deny that there are many elements that have worked their way into classic pop references.There's a lot that happens in this single day. And when I make statement like that, that is usually a very scary thing for a comedy, for everyone knows that the longer a comedy drags on, the worse it becomes. To its credit, this film is consistent in its type of humor while creating scenes that feel fresh-- even with subsequent viewings. From the Ferrari to the parade to the baseball game, some sequences are big and some are really only for a couple of seconds. It's this combination of build-up scenes for a great laugh or clever visual gags that keep the pace going; to sum it up, it works.I won't say this is one of my favorite movies or even one that everybody has to watch, but it is something that almost everybody will enjoy. Not to mention one thing I always appreciate is that films would copy the formula (obviously with less success in most cases), a sentiment to the status of this film.If nothing else, the recreation in Deadpool is enough to put a smile on your face.Bueller...Bueller......You can find this review and dozens of others at gillipediamoviereviews.blogspot.com You're still here? It's over! Go home. Go!

From start to finish this film was utterly amazing. There may not be lots of action, but contrary to belief a great film does not need to be full of action. The simplicity of this film is it's genius, Ferris is a rule breaker. But he is certainly a very likeable character & along with the growth of his best friend during the film Cameron. The relationship between these characters & the constant chase from the head teacher Rooney, give this film a real depth. I can guarantee this film will bring a smile to anyone's face. No matter what mood you may be in, this is a film that will always lighten your mood. It is one of those films that everyone needs to make sure they see at least once in there life.

Using one of the musical leitmotifs of the film, I can only respond with the iconic "Oh, yeah".Indeed it's pretty hard to disagree with that statement. I just passed the 35 line and it seems like yesterday when I hit the '30'. There's a sort of acceleration of time when you get older that makes ten years feel like two in your 'childhood' referential. Ten is the age I was when I saw the film for the first time and I enjoyed it for what it was: a fun teen comedy starring Matthew Broderick, a name I instantly identified because I had seen in "The Freshman" a few weeks only before, but just like I didn't get the Brando references, in "Ferris Bueller", I laughed at the slapstick gags with Dean Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), I enjoyed the dance sequence, I had a child crush on the beautiful Mia Sara, I felt sorry for Cameron (Alan Ruck) but the whole existential undertone of the movie passed over my head. I wish I could be mature enough to grasp the message and use it for my teen years.It's only today that I realize I'm getting older and bitter because I should have enjoyed my youth as much as I enjoyed the film. I kept nodding at some statements and looked for opportunities to be emotionally touched. I loved that Sears Tower moment and how things seem pretty tiny and insignificant when you take some perspective, which is a metaphor of life that speaks for itself. But it's the Art Institute interlude that got me, I don't know if it's the static poses or the music or the way Cameron kept looking at the infinite details of the painting, until getting to grainy dots. Sometimes, you can also look too much at things and miss the essential.It's for moving strokes like that that the 80's are remembered and revered, even in a movie intended to be fun, you could have these moments of sheer contemplation, moments that consecrate John Hughes as the youth's voice of wisdom. If directors treated youth with one tenth the respect Hughes had, movies' quality would be multiplied by ten. Parents, teachers, deans are represented as dream-killing figures, always trying to prevent you from having a good time and being yourself, it seems superficial at first sight, but that 'superficiality' is integral to the youth' spirit, it's for this capacity to confront and challenge the adult world that ironically, kids like Ferris won't have any problems becoming adults. And the more submissive you're to parents or teachers' rules (like Cameron and indirectly Ferris' sister) the less likely you are to become yourself. And that's the truth. So "Ferris Buller's Day Off" is less a road trip in Chicago, although Hughes wanted to capture the spirit of the city, than a tour over the lives of three teenagers who don't have real plans for the future but only know they're having their last year in school and better be prepared to adulthood. Ferris shouldn't miss school, one more truancy day and he's expelled, his girlfriend doesn't endure the same risk but her presence requires the help Cameron, a sickly awkward teen estranged with his father, and more than that, it requires his father's 1961 red Ferrari, perhaps the one thing he values more than his son. The trip won't do without the car and there's a way the film uses it to materializes the personality of Cameron and his Freudian arc in the film, making him the most sympathetic character before Jeannie (Jennifer Grey).Jeannie is devoured by jealousy, by the fact Ferris is so popular and can get away with everything he does, she epitomizes the individual crisis of teens who can't just enjoy what they are and value their self-worth, like Cameron, but instead of depressed passivity, but chose to deliberately live under the shadows of better, she tries to ruin Ferris' plan. Just like Cameron, the day will be an opportunity to discover the real truth and try to be a better person not without the help of a wise punk played by a young Charlie Sheen. Jeannie learns to a better person, focused on herself just like Cameron learns to deal with his father and value his own feelings.It is fascinating that the main character doesn't undergo any change, any coming of age, he's the one who possesses the real truth and breaks the fourth wall to better deliver his message. The day off isn't much a day off school but a day off the usual routine allowing you to have a look at your life and try to change things for the better. A day at the restaurant, museum, ball game, German parade or a simple talk can do the difference. The film is wrapped up in the package of typical 80's comedies but there's nothing typical in the way, it unveils many beautiful truths about life, like other John Hughes' movies, not all of them centered on adults. And a thought had just occurred to me a few days ago and it seems to been in line with Ferris' philosophy, we're either nostalgic of sorrowful toward the past, and too worried and anxious about the future, we have valid reason rot hat but it comes to the point where the only time to be enjoyed is the present, when we go to a party, travel, have sex, everything is about the present actually, that's what happens while we're making plans, and "Ferris Buller's Day Off" there are many impending threats: parents, Dean Rooney, Cameron's Dad but they never stop anyone to seize that day off.And teenage years are the microcosm of the day in your life that indeed moves pretty fast... and everyone I the film ends up having the time of life, Ferris, Sloane, Cameron, Jeannie, the two parking attendants... except for Dean Rooney.

I really wanted to like it, after hearing friends talk about it like it were some paradigm of coming of age masterwork. But I really couldn't. The main character takes a day off, behaves badly and gets away with it. Which would make for a funny, cheeky film, weren't for the fact that such main character is an unlovable, self-absorbed young idiot. The film itself has more plot holes than a narrative colander and the other characters are little more than cardboard cutouts. Charlie Sheen fleetingly raises the tone slightly with a tiny, well acted part of a juvenile delinquent -- but this is pretty much the only positive thing I can say about this absolute dud of a movie.