Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Pros: Entertaining movie with likable main character and good cast.
Cons: Might be too silly for some.

John Hughes became known in the 1980's for making movies focused on teenagers like The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles. Many of the movies he made are now considered classics. I ...

Pros: very funny, great cast, Broderick is superb, can be watched many times over
Cons: none

Matthew Broderick found fame in the film War Games and Director John Hughes decided to take full advantage of that when he cast the lead for Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It turned out to be just the latest in a string of films depicting high ...

Pros: funny and occasionally insightful, Stein and McClurg
Cons: Ferris is annoying, pretty unrealistic

I was never much of one for playing hooky when I was in school. Once in a while I’d feign illness, but my parents had seen E. T. one too many times to fall for such shenanigans. I might have gotten away with it once or twice, but I certainly ...

Pros: Matthew Brodrick, Jeffery Jones, cute, charming humour.
Cons: Pretty inconsequential, overall..... but that's part of the fun!

............after my new cute friend and myself watched the Canadian punk rock film H ard Core Logo, we ended up watching a film that was much different in tone and style. The film was Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, J ...

Pros: Characterization.
Cons: Excess.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) pleases because its hyperbolic nature provides something for everyone to relate to, foreshadowing O ffice Space (1999). The bizarrely fortunate youths and the monstrous, ...

Pros: Everything. Laughs from start to finish.
Cons: None at all.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it. - Ferris Bueller

A better quote I really have never found. That quote will go down in history as my favorite and this movie is a classic. I...

Pros: The movie is still a delight and the new cast interviews are interesting.
Cons: John Hughes' lack of participation is felt throughout the extras.

John Hughes built up a considerable reputation with his first three movies in the 1980s, the pop classic Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science. An old man who seemingly was able to connect to the fantasies and ...

Pros: funny lines we all remember!
Cons: Broderick can be a bit annoying at times

OK, I don't think I would've bought this video to be honest, but to have it handed to me by a friend who got it on DVD already, was a treat. The world of Ferris Bueller is similar to my high school world back in the early 80's. I had friends back in...

Pros: Funny and overall clean
Cons: There is some bad language

Some of the best movies are movies that we can relate to. A movie where we have been there and know what the character is going through. A good example of this is Ferris Buellers Day Off. Who hasn’t been there? I mean seriously, I bet we can all ...

Pros: One of the best "teen comedies" from the 1980s, with an excellent cast led by Broderick and Ruck
Cons: Parents should be very, very afraid

For years, I’ve lived with a secret. It’s a dark chapter of my life, a momentary lapse in judgment that I only now confess because the statute of limitations has expired.

I skipped school.

To my parents, my teachers, my principal:...

Pros: Matthew Broderick at his best
Cons: None, absolutely none

The question isn't "What are we going to do?” the question is "What aren't we going to do”?

When Ferris Bueller decides to cut school, he doesn’t do a half tushed job. No, this high school senior knows that you have to make...

Pros: Excellent comic acting by Broderick and Jones, good ensemble cast, Great takes on Chicago, action flows nicely.
Cons: Maybe some people won't take kindly to the anti-authority attitude?

“Ferris Bueller, you're my hero!” -- Cameron Frye

Ferris Bueller represents the ideal that many of us wanted to be when we were in high school (and perhaps beyond). He is the master psychologist who uses people like putty and...

Pros: Absolutely brilliant level of satire creates for hilarious comedy all backed by outstanding performances.
Cons: Naysayers might find it conveying a rebellious message (it's really not)

"Ferris Bueller's Day Off" portrays an attitude most adults, and therefore, most filmmakers ignore - the way the world is seen through the eyes of young people. This movie captures that essence all the while being a mainstream comedy and a hysterical one ...

Pros: Great cast, superb acting, and good directing. Not to mention it has a Ferrari.
Cons: The parents are cardboard characters.

John Hughes once again makes a comedy set in Chicago that outsold in the box-office and Matthew Broderick is the lead, so what else is new? The presentation seemed like one of the usual movies reeled by Hughes; who made nearly a dozen teen movies in the ...

Pros: Acting, Plot
Cons: ...

“Bueller … Bueller … Bueller…” These words are now synonymous with popular “comedian” Ben Stein. He plays the typical boring high school teacher in this, one of the funniest movies of all time. Though I was too young to remember this movie at the...