Solemplex
To me, this movie is perfection.
filippaberry84
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Usamah Harvey
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Thomas Drufke
The classic case of a film that is very much of its time but yet can still have an impact on generations to come. I've been recommended this film by so many people from the age of early 30's to early 50's. Just like The Graduate in the generation before it and for my generation Superbad, Fast Times doesn't have a deep plot or huge character development, but it showcases a moment in time for a group of high schoolers who are into sex, drugs, and rock n roll. I can't say I felt a great connection to any one particular character but the iconic scenes and quotes are undeniable, Sean Penn is electric, Ray Walston plays a perfect jerk teacher, and Phoebe Cates is memorable (to say the least). This film only displays slices of high school life, but Cameron Crowe's script feels far more real than something that may come out in 2018. The genuine production is something to strive for.7.6/10
Matt Greene
This sits alongside other decidedly "classic" 80s comedies, like Caddyshack and Trading Places, that I just don't get. This is sporadically funny, but mostly it just feels like a collection of random vignettes whose final product is just a lesser version of so many better 80's teen comedies.
guywhoacts
This is a FUN movie. Brings me back to the early 1980's. Sean Penn, what a performance.I see a lot of negative reviews. I think those people don't understand. This movie isn't trying to be anything other than it is. It's just meant to be a time capsule of high school in the 1980s.Does it have a great plot? Not really. Does it even have a plot? Not really, but that's not the point. The film is an adventure and takes you on a ride with the characters. It also captures a piece of the 1980s I haven't seen emulated since.Also, Nic Cage gives a wonderfully understated performance.
RavenGlamDVDCollector
This is the movie made famous by the bikini sequence carried out so talentfully by Phoebe Cates, shortly after she starred in the controversial nudity-filled movie PARADISE. It also features some intimate scenes with a very young Jennifer Jason Leigh at the beginning of her career. On the extras of the DVD, she mentions that though they were controversial, she felt that they were more realistic, spoke more to real-life average people, than Brooke Shields' highly glamorous scenes in THE BLUE LAGOON and ENDLESS LOVE, which she felt were just too pretty. Yeah, Jennifer's really cute, and lots of girls would be able to relate to that supremely inglorious botched sex scene.Phoebe Cates is an unforgettable standout in the annals of movie eroticism. It would take much more to create an iconic scene nowadays than merely filling out a red bikin (and then going topless) but back in 1982, she made bikini history indelibly locked into the minds of the young generation of that time.Without the red bikini sequence, my score would have been considerably lower, as I do not find neither the movie nor most of the characters particularly entertaining. Amy Heckerling did much better with CLUELESS, which ranks as one of my personal favorites.Let me just add that the insane song at the end "Goodbye, Goodbye" by Oinka Boinka or something goofy like that, is so atrociously bad, so maddeningly irritating, that if I could break the original and thereby wipe it from recording history, no matter how I would be chastised for it, I'd stomp on the damn thing.
