Valley Girl
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Movie Reviews of Valley Girl
Movie Review: I LOVE THIS MOVIE, BUT THE DVD SHOULD GET 1 STAR
Summary: 5 Stars
Valley Girl is a classic, and it's nice to see it in widescreen. The print for the most part looks great. But the production value of the extras and packaging was apparently an afterthought. It took 20 years to make it on DVD and it looks like it was slapped together in a week. Way to go MGM! The cover, for starters should be sexy and fun and feature Deborah Foreman and Cage, not that unknown woman they used for the original poster. A film still maybe of a great scene? Anyway, it looks like a bootleg. The extras include a painfully titled Valley Girl --Twenty Totally Tubular Years Later, and features interviews with the most of the cast, including, surprisingly, Nic Cage. Except that Deborah Foreman is nowhere in the interviews! No, really. (They even interviewed Stacy.) Huh?
Hardcore fans are sure to be disappointed in the final product but seek solace in being able to find their favorite scene with ease. But how to choose just one?
The best we can hope for is that Valley Girl will find a new legion of young fans. As for MGM, it's really hopeless guys. So painfully out of touch, and this DVD is further proof.
Movie Review: Totally tubular to the MAX !!
Summary: 5 Stars
I could not love this movie more!!!! I knew all the "valley talk" of the 80's when I was a kid, but never was allowed to watch this movie because of its rating. As an adult, I heard a segment about it on an episode of VH1's "I love the 80's"... I purchased it not knowing how awesome it would be! I have watched this movie numerous times- it's sort of my HAPPY PLACE! And Nicolas Cage is absolutely gorgeous in it!
This movie captures the lighthearted teen scene in the 80's... things that are considered "taboo" now in teen movies (a.k.a doing drugs in the bathroom, or a teen girl's mom trying to hook up with the boy her daughter has a crush on) are perfectly normal and acceptable in this movie- which makes it so great! It's a good love story as well as a trip back in time! It also has the BEST techno-rock soundtrack; I would recommend that as well.
If not for any other reason, watch this movie for the totally 80's fashions.. Very entertaining!! I would strongly recommend this movie to anyone who loves the 1980's as much as I do. Trippin -Dicular!!
Movie Review: Doesn't Gag You With A Spoon
Summary: 5 Stars
The studio bean counters were probably chomping at the bit when they were pitched this film whose title was spun-off from Moon Zappa's novelty hit song. They were rewarded with a film of great poignance and intelligence about a love story between two kids from opposite sides of the tracks. Director Martha Coolidge delivers a film that is very knowing about class envy and peer pressure and how it effects relationships. What I liked about this film is it shows the vulnerability of the teen years and not as all-knowing adults. Nicolas Cage and Deborah Foreman project dynamism and your heart breaks when their love hits a bump in the road. Two scenes stand out as smart homages to other films. One where Cage and Foreman are nuzzling under the marquee of a movie theatre where "Romeo and Juliet" is playing and at the end where the two escape from the prom and sit safely in the back seat of a stretch limo which recalls "The Graduate". My only reservation here is some gratuitous nudity which seemed to be a staple in films at that time.Movie Review: The Best 80's Teen Film Bar None!
Summary: 5 Stars
Valley Girl is the greatest of the 1980's Teen films, and is second to none. John Hughes wishes he could have made a film this accurate, this genuine, and this sincere!This movie is as much 80's as Easy Rider was 60's. It defined the times is what it did.
As silly as it sounds, Valley Girl is actually a very good film. It's put together extremely well, and is original, fresh, and personal all at the same time! They simply do not make teen films of this calibre anymore.
This DVD release is long overdue, but well worth the wait! There are a score of fabulous extras, a commentary track with the director, conversations between the director and Nicolas Cage today, two music videos and much much more!
The picture is high-quality with a tad bit of grain, but the sound is 5.1 surround, and is in widescreen. Valley Girl has never looked or sounded better.
If you only ever see one 80's Teen film, Valley Girl should be the one, and probably the only one you'd ever need to own.
Movie Review: Like Totally Cool!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is like totally like awesome man I just think that it is the raddest movie of the 1980's and it stars some really cool people like E.G. Daly, Deborah Foreman as "Julie" like one of the coolest chicks that I have ever seen act the coolest the way that she like wore her shirts they were like the coolest shirts... And the cool shades they wore like the coolest shades that I have ever seen like in my whole life !!!! The hairstyles in this movie was very rad too!!!!Getting down to business this is a cool movie I really did enjoy it . This movie is about some cool teenagers a group of friends that hang together it is about Julie going with this guy named Tommy and she decides that she doesn't like him anymore and then starts to date Nick Cage and Tommy gets jealous and him and Nick Cage have a fight this is a great movie and I would truly reccommend anyone to buy this movie and both soundtracks!!!!