It’s a light and breezy musical with a fun nostalgic tinge.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2022

This is the perfect mental margarita to decompress with, because sometimes the world is just too much.

| Sep 10, 2021

Tender performances and attempts at narrative depth keep this revisit more thoughtful than it appears to be at first glance.

| Jun 10, 2021

It's reasonable to view Goldenberg's Valley Girl as a bit of harmless, devil-may-care kitsch - it is built to be digested as guilty pleasure.

| Jun 5, 2021

Goldenberg and her cast do have the beat, and assemble better production numbers than many splashier recent movie musicals.

| Original Score: B | Jan 28, 2021

An energetic rhythm, its well-known musical themes and its extraordinary staging will ensure that you have a fun and enjoyable time. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 4, 2021

It's the classic girl falls for the boy from the wrong side of the tracks story with all of the teenage angst you could possibly want, wrapped up in a pretty and well-sung walk down memory lane.

| Original Score: 6.0 | Nov 25, 2020

Almost everything about this musical smacks of an inauthentic, forced recreation of the effortless 1980s charm that made the original Valley Girl movie a cult classic.

| Jul 18, 2020

Fans of '80s music won't enjoy their cherished tunes being churned into pap by the cast recordings, and fans of the original movie won't enjoy the counterproductive changes to the story.

| Jul 16, 2020

With the chemistry and shameless nostalgia-grab of jazzercise, leg warmers, and 80s pop, there's enough to Valley Girl to entertain, although there's admittedly little there to impress.

| May 21, 2020

The movie is just as slick as the lifestyle it supposedly mocks.

| Original Score: C+ | May 21, 2020

Overall it was a bubbly, effervescent fun film with a very likable leading presence from Jessica Rothe.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | May 16, 2020

By the end, even a fan of the original may feel dread instead of glee at the rise of synth on the soundtrack, announcing yet another interminable musical number.

| Original Score: C+ | May 14, 2020

Disney Channel style musical numbers give the story a propulsive energy but the artificial, generic tone also threatens to make the story weightless.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 14, 2020

If Valley Girl was a roller coaster, it would be the kiddy ride you choose because the line is short and you just want to pass the time before the next big thrill ride. And even then, it's still pretty disappointing.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 12, 2020

It's puffery laden with dialogue written by people who think references are jokes.

| May 12, 2020

This movie hurts my heart, and not in a good way... This just made me cringe a lot.

| May 12, 2020

Valley Girl is a blast of enjoyable camp that is, unlike its teenage protagonists, entirely sure of its own identity. It knows it's broad, silly and cheesy, but it embraces that and turns its fantasy elements up to 11

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2020

Is Valley Girl true to its tagline, 'the awesomest love story ever told'? No. It's predictable with a familiar narrative and familiar conflicts, but it's feel-good and highlights not the stereotypes of the era, but its boisterous energy.

| Original Score: 6/10 | May 11, 2020

Valley Girl is an '80s artifact that either should have been given a more interesting makeover or been left untouched in the dustbin of the decade that spawned it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 11, 2020