Buffy is still funny as hell—the lines are zippy, as much as it makes a person cringe to hat-tip Whedon, and the physical comedy is still there too.

| Feb 21, 2025

There's ultimately never a point at which Buffy the Vampire Slayer is entirely (or even partially) able to live up to the seemingly foolproof nature of its high-concept premise...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 3, 2020

As silly as its title suggests, Buffy the Vampire Slayer manages to deliver a sly message about female strength and the fragility of sexual stereotypes.

| Mar 26, 2019

While it would be a mistake to oversell "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," the sad and/or happy truth is that you could do worse on a warm summer night. A lot worse.

| Mar 26, 2019

The idea of mixing vampires and modern teens has, of course, been tried before... But it has never been done with so much sophistication - yes, sophistication.

| Mar 26, 2019

''Buffy'' shuffles through a number of styles and approaches, from the satirical to the Grand Guignolesque, but never treats its material with much respect.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 26, 2019

Though the idea of pitting ancient European evil against modern Californian idiocy at the script conferences must have screamed High Concept, the result is pitiful.

| Mar 26, 2019

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is lightweight summer fun.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 26, 2019

Despite a promising set up, replete with oodles of Valley-girl lingo and cliquish quips, Buffy the Vampire Slayer becomes a comedy of missed opportunities and banal action.

| Mar 26, 2019

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" ultimately falls prey to the worst tendencies of horror and teen pictures.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Mar 26, 2019

Somewhere between Prom Night and Dracula, without any real sense of menace, comes this vampire comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 26, 2019

"Does the word duh mean anything to you?" It does to director Fran Rubel Kuzui, whose frenzied mistrust of her material is almost total.

| Mar 26, 2019

[O]ne of the film's biggest blunders is that most of the actors are unsure about how seriously they should be taking the whole project, their leading lady included.

| Jan 14, 2019

I give this a "Fresh" rating because it owns its place in history and is not nearly as bad as many of the action movies I've watched & discussed online.

| Oct 17, 2018

As a comedy, "Buffy" is a horror show, and vice versa.

| Feb 9, 2018

Buffy the Vampire Slayer evidently exists to show us what a rough, rough draft looks like...

| Jan 31, 2018

Fine if we're looking at a nasty-minded satire about valley girls; less fine if we're looking at a funny-atop-serious fable about dealing with the end of high school .

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 27, 2017

Serves more as a fun guilty pleasure, but one that chooses to embrace the absurdity and run with it...

| Oct 13, 2014

Production values are low and everything looks cheap, but the film punches above its weight and has a lot of heart.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2013

Buffy isn't funny or scary, it's just mediocre, slowly losing interest in itself as Kuzui runs out of imagination.

| Original Score: C | Jul 30, 2012