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Overall Rating
  Awesome: 63.1%
Worth A Look: 20.24%
Average: 13.1%
Pretty Bad: 1.19%
Total Crap: 2.38%
4 reviews, 60 user ratings
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| Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
by The King of the Bros
"Bo Derek's Tits! I like sex!"
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This movie is sex in a baseball dugout at midnight. It's smoking pot in the van before school. It's jerking off in the bathroom while fantasizing about Phoebe Cates getting naked to the Cars. It's driving whilst getting drunk and running the car into a big pile of bricks. My dear friends, this movie is America. Or at least what America should be.I really don't know what kind of problems you could have with this film. If you do, then should probably do the world a favor and suck on a gun.
It took me a few viewings, but I realized that this movie doesn't really have a plot. It's just a slice of FUCK YEAH.
The thing that makes this movie is the characters. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Stacy, the naive, virginal (not for long) and trusting girl that everybody seems to know. Judge Reinhold plays her brother, a dude that really doesn't know what's going on, but still likes to kick ass. Phoebe Cates is Stacy's older, more experienced friend. She likes to give Stacy really good advice as well as show her how to give a carrot a blow job. She also likes to show her breasts.
You got that guy Ratner, who really is a little bitch, but you can't blame him, he doesn't know any better. His buddy Demone is a "cool" guy who's into scoring with chicks and then impregnating them and ditching them in one fell swoop. He also sells Van Halen tickets.
But then as we all know, the scene stealer is of course Jeff Spicoli, the stoner/surfer played by Sean Penn. Now, I know Mr.Penn has been nominated and or won some Oscars, but that don't mean shit. This is hands down his best performance ever, and he will never top it. I don't care what you say, this is it my good friends. This is acting.
Ray Walston is the ever charming Mr.Hand. He's hellbent on getting his student's to learn. He doesn't like it when people eat food in his class, he also doesn't like you.
One of the things I like about this movie is it doesn't follow the regular standards of a teen movie. It doesn't have the happy ending where everybody finds true love, or the party scene where somebody barfs.
Strangely enough, this movie is an original and can never be touched. Then again I suppose that's mostly due to the fact that it was made in the early 80's and the world as we know it will never be that cool again.All in all, this movie is just like how you remember high school, only all the good parts are put together. And then there's some abortion and stuff like your best friend banging that girl you have a crush on, but basically it's all good. If you haven't seen it already, then fucking what the hell are you doing? Go! Now! Or else!
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originally posted: 06/17/00 06:35:13
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USA
02-Sep-1982 (R)
DVD: 02-Nov-2004
UK
N/A
Australia
02-Feb-1983
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