This film is in my top ten teen films ever, its a fun watch and a pure classic

A

Hilarious. Love this one.

9/10 (A)

"He does dress better than I do, what would I bring to the relationship?"

"It's like this book I read in ninth grade that said, 'Tis a far, far better thing to do stuff for other people'"

This movie was one of my favorites in the 90's and I'm a guy. Point being: it's very versatile.

A

Twas a really good movie, but not quite great.

8.9/10 B+

So...pretty much ditto to what everyone else said.

A

This movie is great, one of the top three teen films of all time. Alicia Silverstone deserves better after this movie (Batgirl, no)

Every character works.

I think my favorite part is when Brittney Murphy gets hit in the head with the shoe, or falls down the stairs at the club. She is the very definition of the word. I also can't help but notice that its 12 years later and Paul Rudd hasn't really aged that much, except when his hair is longer.

Alicia Silverstone appears stoned on some of her interviews. I don't know -- she just comes across as a flake. Maybe it's the lack of B-12.

"I was surfing the crimson wave! I had to haul ass to the ladies'."

I will never give up my devotion to this movie. When I am 80 years old, I will probably find it just as funny as I did when I was 15.

Watched this for the first time today. One of the few modern films that I know I should've seen long ago but didn't.

Anyway, it was awesome.

This is very re-watchable.

OMG this movie, so in love with it always

Wonder if I should watch this before Easy A.

Magnus, that is a distinctly not horrible opinion. You're growing!

Clueless is my favorite comedy of all time.

I'm calling your boss.

*/****

Clueless is the pinnacle of a certain kind of smarmy teensploitation/Classics Illustrated vogue that saw Shakespeare (10 Things I Hate About You) and, in this case, Jane Austen (i.e., Emma) squeezed through the sausage mill of swatch-guards and Prada bags. It's the Shrek school of satire: mythological creatures made to act out master-plots in unfunny, unimaginative ways in stock mythological landscapes. In place of literal trolls, find euphemistic trolls in Alicia Silverstone and Brittany Murphy, posed opposite one another as after/before shots of one-trick lightweights. (So light is Silverstone, in fact, that her most recent attempted comeback was essentially as this character ten years later in NBC's prophetically-named "Miss Match".) The only interest in watching this relic in its new, ten-year anniversary "Whatever Edition" (also prophetically-named) is in trainspotting current sitcom stars in what, in retrospect, is a piece of work every bit as smug and self-loathing as Pretty Persuasion or Saved!.

The crux of the problem arises in a scene where matchmaker/Beverly Hills princess Cher (Silverstone) tries to teach her project Tai (Murphy) what the word "sporadically" means (it refers to how often Silverstone sees new scripts): Rather than let the moment play out in its own spectacularly ironic way, it comments on it with an arched eyebrow and a snort of derision from love-interest Josh (Paul Rudd). Clueless is never content to just let be, be the finale of seem, if you know what I mean--never content to trust its audience without having a smug jackhole remind exactly how vapid and, yes, clueless our heroines are. In this way it invites the audience to share in the scorn and contempt--Clueless is about being smarter than these classless bimbos, these proto-Paris Hiltons, and then, in the last reel, we're asked to give them a patronizing pat on the head. We're not exactly cheering Cher on as she proves incapable of driving a car, argues her way to better grades, or spends half her screentime with a cell phone glued to her ear--and neither is she, on the flipside, satirizing the way kids are today. Judging by the film's popularity, it's more of a documentary on how teens get their jollies off laughing at people to whom they feel superior.

Clueless is drunk on its own cleverness and afraid, at the same time, that its target audience won't understand the joke, thus it proceeds to explain itself in studied detail. An awkward love affair between gnomish teachers Wallace Shawn and (associate producer) Twink Caplan has moments of genuine pathos, but because they're reduced to cutesy fetish objects for the patronizing manipulation of our stable of clothes horses, it's tough to separate our feelings of recognition therein from that cozy Red Cross tingle of relief at being better off, at least, than these lovable oafs. For all its meta-winking, Clueless is completely sans irony, substituting in its gaping absence a desperation to seem better than its premise.

Yet another review randomly spliced from the Internet and dropped into a thread. Trolling in the deep.

it's not just some random negative review. it's from my favorite film critic. i hope you enjoy it, libs.

This is so funny and Alicia Silverstone is hot and brilliant in this. I wasn't in love with the ending as the love story was not explored but Paul Rudd and Alicia share such great chemistry in this that its easy to root for them in the end. There are some really LOL worthy one-liners in the movie that still work very well.

B+