After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.
Here is a dream as old as adolescence, and it is fun to be reminded of its ageless potency, especially in a movie as good-hearted as this one.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
8 Aug 2011
rotten:
A film that doesn't seem to know what it's about until the end.
– Gene Siskel,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan 2013
rotten:
[While Risky Business] suggested that money isn't everything, Ferris Bueller insists just the opposite.
– Carrie Rickey,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
23 Apr 2014
rotten:
It is most curious that Hughes, who is obviously clever and talented, has failed to develop the intriguing situation he has set in motion.
– Jay Boyar,
Orlando Sentinel,
23 Apr 2014
rotten:
What should've been a joyful romp turns into a stale, sour-edged celebration of the New Conformist, an affluent, technology-addled cherub without a rebellious whim in his brain.