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Release Date: 19 October, 1999 Retail Price: $19.99 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
Clueless Reviews
Step In To Delight
Clueless is a thoroughly delightful film, this edition improves on it with excellent bonus features - all are good, but Fashion 101 is not to be missed.
Despite its glossy veneer - a world populated by attractive, narcissistic, and privileged kids - Clueless is a smart, droll, endearing look inside youth culture. Because it touches on universal themes, fully operational when Jane Austen wrote Emma, the film withstands the test of time despite language (as if) and fashion trends (droopy drawers for skaters) that, as fads, have the average life span of a drosophila.
Many viewers will approach Clueless with a certain amount of hostility. Cher, the protagonist, played to perfection by Alicia Silverstone, is impossibly beautiful. Worse still, her father, a gruff but charmingly protective Dan Hedaya, is beyond rich. Even worse, Cher seems to live entirely on the surface of things, expressing her creativity through social meddling and wardrobe. (The outfits worn by Cher, her friend Dionne, and others in their inner circle are reason enough to watch the film.) How could we ever like such wretched, spoiled kids?
Because, Clueless is a beautifully executed, gentle satire, not a broad farce or biting indictment. Writer/Director Amy Heckerling, (who also did Fast Times At Ridgemont High - a lesser endeavor), understands and loves her characters, they are not stereotypes. We like these kids because they are in on the joke, they know they're hothouse orchids. Blatant examples include Murray, played by Donald Faison (now on Scrubs) a black uber-yuppie who learns his street patois from MTV, and Jeremy Sisto's Elton who has apparently hobbled his identity together from Rat Pack press photos.
With the stage beautifully set, a comedy of manners begins, Cher manipulates people in order to serve her idea of the greater social good and learns a few lessons along the way. No one is shot. No helicopters appear. Inept driving is featured, but there are no car chases. Wonder of wonders, especially for a teen movie, there is no gratuitous sex. Amy Heckerling is to be saluted for creating a film that relies on story, dialogue, detail, character, and acting to do the work. Her success is complete. Clueless uses SoCal youth culture as its milieu, not its point. Really a pleasure and worth owning.
best teen movie of the 90's
I love Clueless. It's an amazing movie based on spoiled rich kids. The main character is Cher( silverstone), who likes to help out others in the school and likes to get her way. Dion is the funniest character of them all. I like her sense of humor.
Mostly a teen could relate to any of these characters. Instead of using their popularity to bring people down, they made the new girl Tie, fill welcome.I'm so happy they made a special edition for ''Clueless.'' The packaging is brillant. Most of the talking was funny. Thanks Paramount for releasing it!
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