Amazon.com video review:
Like a soda pop left open all night, Bueller seems to
have lost its effervescence over time. Sure, Matthew Broderick is
still appealing as the perennial truant, Ferris, who fakes his parents
out and takes one memorable day off from school. Jeffrey Jones is
nasty and scheming as the principal who's out to catch him. Jennifer
Grey is winning as Ferris's sister (who ends up making out in the
police station with a prophetic vision of Charlie Sheen). But there's
a definite sense that this film was of a particular time frame: the
'80s. It's still fun, though. There's Ferris singing "Twist and Shout"
during a Chicago parade, and a lovely sequence in the Art
Institute. But don't get it and expect your kids to love it the way
you did. Like it or not, it's yours alone. --Keith Simanton
