hyped garbage

A Disappointing Continuation

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

There was a time in my teenage when i used to love this genre; however, that has completely changed now. I had a lot of fun watching this movie, Alicia Silverstone acting was adorable. The story and plot was beautiful and unique in some way. This genre is most of the very predictable where an unpopular girl likes a popular guy or vice versa, but this story was much different then what i expected.

No spoilers, just my hope that if you, like me, have waited over two decades to watch this story, that you'll enjoy it as much as I did. Other than knowing the stars were a lot younger, the tale it tells - and how it tells it - is just as fresh today as it must have been then. A great reason to escape to a happy place for a too-short while.

Ready for a shock? Pinnacle teen-comedy Clueless is over 20 years old. Before Silverstone was a retired-actress-turned-naturist; before Dash was just another Fox News pundit; and when Rudd was young, funny and good-looking...as opposed to now, when he's middle-aged, funny and good-looking. They were part of a cultural phenom that was so thoroughly 90s we wondered if its greatness could hold over time. Well, either my nostalgia is strengthening, or the film is actually getting better with age. Clueless is as funny as ever, lovingly laughing at its characters with a timeless sense of teenage naivete. The story of posh high-schooler Cher (a never-better Silverstone) and her gang of hilariously un-self-aware cohorts is a segmented film. Befriending and making-over a lower-class classmate. Falling for the James-Dean-esque new kid. Playing matchmaker to some lonely teachers. Learning how to drive. Dealing with your mopey, know-it-all college stepbrother. It's a collage of teenage moments; nonetheless, there's a beautiful cohesion throughout. The colorful dialogue of obnoxious colloquialisms and the beyond-perfect casting ground the film at every boa'd, saggy pants'd turn. Sure, Clueless is a "chick flick", but to write it off because of that would be to ignore how smart and subtly subversive the movie is. Based on the Jane Austen book Emma, the story parallels are not only fun and unexpectedly exact, they give the plight of these decidedly unsympathetic characters a rare gravitas. Neither praising adolescents or standing at a distance to laugh at them, it instead simply accepts them, warts and designer clothes and giant cellphones and all. That uncynical love makes this colorful and lively gut-busting comedy every bit as successful as it was in 1995.

I really wanted to like this film. I really tried. But I just couldn't ignore the fact that there is no clear storyline. It didn't feel like a movie, instead it felt like it was originally atv short series but stringed into a feature length movie right before they began filming. The ending doesn't tie anything together, and many plot points are left with questions unanswered (for example the part of the plot that focuses on Cher trying to get her driver's license). While this film did have some enjoyable moments, that isn't enough to warrant it all the great reviews it has gotten. I found it a complete waste of an hour and forty minutes.