Movie Review - Fast Times at Ridgemont High

This is a film that American thirty somethings seem to rave about. It might have been a good movie when it was released but it has no plot, FAR too much dialogue and almost nothing happens. Basically the film follows the lives of students at Ridgemont High as they try to live and learn and survive school. Judge Reinhold stars and looks FAR TOO OLD to be going to school. Appearances by Phoebe Cates (who briefly appears nude), Jennifer Jason Leigh (who I still have no idea who she is) (also has 2 nude scenes), Forest Whitacker as a Jock, Sean Penn as a stoner, Eric Stoltz as one of his friends.

The cast have all gone on to bigger and better things and films like this have been spoofed many times since. The film can't be sold on it's plot (there is virtually none at all), it can't be sold on the then pretty unknown cast, the music isn't very good for an 80's film and the nudity isn't enough to carry a generally poor film which hasn't stood up well to the passage of time.