Watch Valley Girl For Free

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

I am only giving this movie five points because it contains a fair amount of footage of L.A. circa 1983. It also features some of the most awkward dialogue ever penned for the screen, especially the exchanges involving adults. I mean, Frederic Forrest must have been so annoyed with his agent once he started shooting his dreadful scenes. It also would have been nice for at least one of the Valley girls to talk like a real Valley girl--I can understand not being able to find an established young actress who could do a spot-on Valley girl accent, but if you're going to cast a bunch of nobodies with limited acting ability, why not just drive over the Valley and take your pick? That's plain old lazy. And--here comes the spoiler--the Julie Richman character's sudden change of heart about Randy makes no sense, given how hot and heavy they were, and the climactic prom scene is just too silly for words.

To quote and slightly alter a song from Rancid: "Little Randy was a punk rocker. You know his girlfriend never understood him." What do you do when the perfect guy is from the wrong side of the tracks and doesn't talk or act like your friends? What a dilemma! This has a classic 80's plot, struggles, amount of nudity, and resolution. Watch this if you know what you're getting into and you'll enjoy it immensely. There is plenty wrong with this movie, but don't watch it with a critical eye, rather a nostalgic opportunity to see Nicolas Cage before he had his teeth worked on, an early Elizabeth Daily, and a young 'Buck' from Kill Bill. Rating 24/40

Happy 25th Birthday to Valley Girl! Great soundtrack, plausible story, wonderful performances...captures the spirit of the 80's; the slang of the mainstreams and the outcasts. A wonderful rendition of high school life and "gritty downtown" from a suburban perspective.The soundtrack contains songs by Modern English, Felony, Josie Cotton, Sparks, Payola$, Josie Cotton, The Plimsouls, The Psychedelic Furs, Men At Work, The Flirts and Bananarama.This movie truly is Romeo and Juliet (minus the double suicide) set in 1980's Los Angeles. Julie's dad, played by Frederic Forrest (Sonny Bono, anyone?) is hysterical as a hippie idealistic dad who wonders how he sprung such a materialistic offspring. Yet, he doesn't judge, ya dig??

To THE MALL OR BARF ME OUT I feel we are scratching primordial ice in Mallology with any review of Valley Girl set against the backdrop of the mall. The theme was not original: boy meets girl in a clash of cultures and values, but the setting was not a war movie with the focus on unity in diversity but the unifying element of materialism in my favorite place for reflection and relaxation: the mall. A lighthearted, teen angst flick Valley Girl melds a cute romance between two kids from different backgrounds who have trouble attaining acceptance in each other's worlds. Julie Richman (Deborah Foreman) a sweet, rich valley girl develops crush on Randy (Nicholas Cage) a stray alley cat, ie a punk. When Julie's snotty friends disapprove, Julie must choose between her heart and her popularity. The movie not only follows the life of the valley girl and her punk; but her friends too as they shop, party, hang out, and go to the mall. Though Julie and Randy don't have much in common at all, the movie captures the essence of the materialistic eighties: malls, the credit card machines, the punk hair color, in a sweet, intelligent Romeo & Juliet teen flick. Despite suffering from spats of sophomoric silly, corny dialogue and story lines and bad acting, the flick captures the spirit of the times in period characters: vapid mall chicks, pseudo punk rebels and preppy jocks and most especially the period slang in potent, time-specific dialogue: "rad," "awesome," "fabu," "totally," "BARF ME OUT," "OH MY GOSH," "like it is," "AND GAG ME WITH A SPOON!"--- "like you know." Fer Sure, the characters are vapid and shallow. They're like, from the valley, like, you know? Yet if the characters seem lifeless cardboard cut-outs, they represent a plastic mall culture stemming from the nether world of the San Fernando Valley and enaring from late Hippie culture turned opportunistically materialistic. The characters depicted differ little from the rather shallow, adolescents who proclaimed Val culture as an outgrowth of the prevailing hedonism. The pop poster of the time announced: POVERTY SUCKS. Wealth or its appearance of it, fancy hair and flashy clothes ruled. If the plot were unpretentious, it attained its goal of updating Romeo and Juliet and resetting it against the background of the mall with the talk and style of dress carefully portrayed in period pastels. The movie took a *very* common theme and reworked afresh.