Valley Girl Reviews
Saying that I loved it falls short. It was so fun!!! Chloe Bennet did an amazing job
Just awful. Remade a cool movie into a boomer's memory of 80s nostalgia.
I hate to start by saying I was disappointed, but it looks like I'm not the only one. Recommendations showed that this was a Peyton List movie and while she is in the movie, she wasn't the lead. From what I hear she would have had a more substantial part, but her scenes were deleted. So, I spent 100 minutes not entirely satisfied but not completely disappointed. This is a straight-to-video remake of the 1983 hit film Valley Girl. In which a sheltered suburban teenage girl lives a nice happy life but on the cusp of adulthood finds love with a bad-boy rocker named Rusty. Learning there is life beyond suburbia but there is a modicum of difficulty in life across the tracks. It's Grease set in the 1980s with popular music blaring without warning as a musical. Peyton R. List's limited time on the screen aside, this wasn't half bad. I do not like musicals, but I do love the 1980s and the music was magnificent. The actors were okay for the most part, but nowhere near as good as the originals. I do like Jessica Rothe's acting and Chloe Bennet's. But her appearance made my heart pound, I was a fan of her acting in Agents of SHIELD, but she is beyond gorgeous in skintight leggings, spandex, and jeans. The whole idea of the present day with Alicia Silverstone reliving the glory days to her daughter felt like A Princess Bride, another 80s staple. That was the true star of the movie, the great decade of the 80s. But I could have done without the musicals and the injection of present-day sensibilities in the story. An okay movie, but it could have been better.
Nice. I like the film.
This musical journey back to the ‘80s is a lot of fun, thanks mainly to its music and well-placed pop culture references. While it's a visual feast of fun, the story, however, doesn't stray too far from its original which stills up well in its own right.
They turned an old classic movie into an awful musical with a plageristic ending. They should have ended it with a unique song about the main character instead of claiming "I melt with you" my Modern English by an English band was written about her... This was corny garbage, but if they would have wrote a unique song it would have come off slightly more realistic. I am not even sure who this movie was for. It was like a Disney Channel movie trying to be nostalgic, but hitting the wrong people. SO SO SO BAD.
They should have just ripped off the original entirely and called this version something else. No one would have noticed when it's as cliche as this is. And probably would have faired better. It sure could've been better done and far more interesting; any of the edge the original had is, quite unsurprisingly, gone. "Meh. It passed the time." is absolutely correct.
Horrible. Awful. Old 30 year old terrible actors playing high school kids. So bad.
Very different than the original. Similar plot, don't compare and enjoy. Three items: this Randy and Julie have better screen chemistry in my opinion. Why not have Deborah Foreman play older Julie? Logan Paul playing a D Bag is genius!
You know when there's a movie your wife starts and you're like "you go ahead; I'll go do something else" and then you get sucked in? This is that movie. So much that it makes me question the uncharitable Rotten Tomato score. Are professional reviewers really that snobby and pretentious? I mean, really. It's a musical. It's got punk rock. It's got aerobics. What else could you ask for?
The perfect amount of 80's nostalgia and feel good songs, mixed with the Romeo and Juliet love story. Would easily rewatch multiple times
Liked the original.. Saw this on cable and said WTF, I'll give it a shot. Holy crap this is bad. Calling this a big pile of dung would be putting this mildly.
The new musical Valley Girl is one of the more weaker ones with predictable weak story masked and peppered with pop covers that don't add anything worth dancing or singing along too.
While no masterpiece by any means, this tribute to the 80s never stops feeling honest and caring, and you can't simply quit smiling through the whole film. Jessica Rothe shines once more (as in both Happy Death Day films) and becomes, as "Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga" (best musical of the year, by the way) Rachel McAdams, the great snubbee of the Musical leading ladies at the Golden Globes. This actress is going to be huge, I feel.
Although I'm a sucker for musicals, something about this one missed for me. It's like it tried too hard to embrace the '80s and went overboard. There are plenty of cliches and tropes though it has some fun moments.
Decent flick. Definitely captured the spirit of the 80's. It's pretty cheesy... just like all 80's movies were. So I think that might've been on purpose! ha! Anyway, if you like the 80's, and musicals, then you should definitely check it out for yourself.
If you've never seen the original you might just think this was just a horrible high school musical script gone wrong. If you've seen the original, especially if you saw it during its theatrical release, then you're either mad as hell that someone did this or just completely disgusted and hope that death takes you before the end of the movie. It's truly the worst thing to happen in the last 12 months and that includes Covid19. If you're even remotely responsible for this thing getting made you need to rethink what you are doing with your life.
LOVED LOVED LOVED IT! Took my time to finally watch it because I am a teenager of the 80s and a huge fan of the original and so I wasn't sure that this would live up to it, but it did for me in every way! The story, the music, the casting - it all worked so well and has left a big smile on my face. If you are a fan of the 80s and all the wonderful music, then I would highly recommend it! I think they did a great job and I can't wait to watch it again with my teenage kids!