As we go into the second half of the decade, we enter one of the more popular filmmakers' most popular films: Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Hmm, I wonder who didn't get that one, and I pity them. Because in all seriousness, still today Ferris Bueller is popular. He even appeared in a Super Bowl commercial. So now for his big moment, a film review.
Plot time:
We begin with Ferris being very sick in bed one morning. His parents say he can stay home, but his sister Jeanie doesn't believe him. Once the parents and sister are out of the room, Ferris reveals to the audience, and throughout the movie he talks to us, that he is in fact healthy as a bee and ready to have a good day outside of school.
His first thing is grabbing friends, and who better than his best friend, Cameron Fry? He is at home as well, but he's a little depressed and over-tired apparently and is a little sick, but Ferris manages to get him out of bed and come over to his house where they can grab another friend, Sloane Petersen, who is in school.
Meanwhile we meet Edward Rooney, the dean of students for Ferris and Cameron's high school. He's very determined to get Ferris another year of high school and knows he's been swindling him. After a call comes in from Mr. Petersen that Sloane's grandmother has just died and that she needs to be dismissed. Rooney, thinking it's Ferris, insults him, cusses him out, and even partially threatens him. His secratary tells him he has another call, from Ferris Bueller. After he switches back over it is revealed that Mr. Petersen is actually Cameron.
Unfortunately, Cameron says that he wants Sloane and Rooney out in front of the school so that he can pick up Sloane. Ferris says that they must pick her up with a different car since Cameron's is not so good. So they hijack Mr. Fry's classic Ferrari. They pick up Sloane, park the Ferrari in a garage where someone will take care of it, and then go out to enjoy Chicago for the day.
Rooney feels he is being swindled again and decides to leave the seek out Ferris himself. Ferris and company end up eating lunch at a fancy restaurant calling himself the Sausage King of Chicago. Unfortunately he is in the same restaurant as his father. After evading him repeatedly he ends up singing on a float in a peace parade.
Rooney ends up at Ferris' house and is terrorised by the dog and Jeanie once she decides to skip school to blow Ferris' cover. Rooney's car is towed away and he runs after it as Jeanie is picked up by the cops for a phony call about an intruder in her house, Rooney.
The group go back to get the Ferrari, and they realize that the guy attending to watching it actually drove it all day and put quite a few miles on it. Cameron blows a chip and sort of goes through a mental wall hit, if you will, and ends up almost drowning in his own pool, but Ferris saves him, but he reveals he was acting the entire time.
Bueller comes up with a plan to take miles off by going in reverse in the garage, blocking the car wheels with cinderblocks. Unfortunately the plan doesn't work, Cameron beats up the car, and even sends it flying out of the garage where it "dies" after a steep fall. He says he will take the heat and stand up for himself.
Ferris says goodbye to Sloane and runs to get home and beat his parents before they discover he was out the whole day. Mrs. Bueller picks Jeanie up from the police department and heads home. Jeanie, driving, gets two speeding tickets, but manages to beat Ferris home. Ferris, searching for the key, finds that Rooney has it after he returns. Jeanie saves him and sees that he is terrorised again by the family dog.
Ferris manages to get back into bed before his parents make it back up to his room and then says, "Yep, life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while...you could miss it." In a during credits scene Rooney rides the bus back to school in a hilarious scene. Then Ferris comes out and says,"You're still here? It's over. Go home. Go on." After a chi-chi-chaaaaa the film cuts to black.
Now for the ratings:
Acting: 10 out of 10. Everybody does very well.
Entertainment: 10 out of 10. Throughly entertaining.
Screenplay: 10 out of 10. Hughes juggles everything very well.
Directing: 9 out of 10. Very well done.
Technical Credits: 8 out of 10. Editing and music and cinematography are well done, everything else is standard.
Genre Fit: 7 out of 10. A little drama here and there as well as comedy, but its mostly comedy.
MPAA Rating: 10 out of 10. A perfect PG-13. Yeah, doesn't go too soft or too hard.
Stupid Scenes: 10 out of 10. None.
Deeper Message: 10 out of 10. The last quote there from Ferris above says it all. And not the go home one, huh?
Beginning: 27 out of 30. A great start.
Middle: 27 out of 30. Some of the most merorable moments of the film happen here.
Ending: 30 out of 30. Very great conclusion.
Final Rating: 168/180 or 93%. An A, very well deserved and a very well done film by Hughes. A very high rating as well, I might add.
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