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    I'd say this doesn't look appropriate for any age.  :^)
    
    - Sean

    Hey! This has gotten some good reviews. They love Alicia Silverstone's
    performance.

    Lisa

    I can't imagine anyone giving Alicia "definitely clueless" Silverstone
    a good review except may Wayne and Garth - "exsqueez me?"
    
    Mo
    

    
    I don't know about a 9 year old seeing it; but Alicia knows what
    she is doing, she is nothing like her screen persona, is a
    good little actress, beautiful, smart, and has a promising career!
    
    I have read and seen so much on her, she has something people like.
    
    enjoy!
          Bob

    re .3

    Hey, Mo! See the movie first then judge her. I read two reviews in USA
    Today International when I was out of the country last week. One critic
    liked the whole movie and especially her, and the other liked her and
    the movie so-so saying though that it was entertaining.

    Lisa

    
    I saw a review with Medved and the other guy who try and pick family
    movies. Jeffrey ? was going to take his son to get the son to explain
    the lingo. The only line they didn't like was a single drug scene they
    felt was gratuitous, otherwise they liked it.

    I took my son (age 12) to see the movie. We both found it boring. It
    did seem okay for a nine year old to see. The audience I was in seemed
    to feel the same way my son and I did about the movie, almost no
    chuckles from the crowd. There were a lot of kids at the showing.

    892.7
    
    I rest my case!!!!!!!
    
    Mo
    

	saw her on Letterman, she's a ditz!!

    From Basenoter...
    
    Decided on Pocahotis and she reluctantly agreed.  
    
    Thanks for your opinions.
    
    

    I saw this last night & thought it a pretty entertaining piece of
    fluff.  Some good acting, some good understated sight gags (e.g., a 2-
    or 3-second shot of a report card, with the comment "nice shapes"
    beside the geometry grade), and enough amusing scenes to keep me
    watching.  Not a stupid movie.
    
    There is a little marijuana smoking.  The attitude of the main cahracter is
    that it's ok to "spark a doobie" (hope I got that right) at a party,
    but not as a habit.  There's one sympathetic character who gives it up
    & enters a 12-step program, this all treated very lightly.
    
    I suppose the movie might tend to glamourize the silly rich kids' high
    school scene it satirizes, but its general tendency is fairly
    conservative:  everyone's heart is in the right place, family members
    care for each other, and the importance of discipline and hard work and
    intelligence are pretty clearly stressed.
    
    -Stephen 

    
    My pan wasn't a knock on Alicia 23-news-stories-in-one-week-about-how-
    she's-really-bright-and-NOT-like-her-character-Cher Silverstone.
    
    While I have little against the actress, I'm just getting oversaturated 
    with the moron motif Hollywood seems to revel in portraying.  Didn't
    we cover this ground fairly thoroughly already?  I mean, after Sean
    Penn's Jeff Spicoli, they're all just pale imitations.
    
    I guess I don't mind the theme as much as the way that a state of
    mindlessness seems has moved from being parodied to being praised.
    
    Or maybe I'm just too Dumb and Dumber to see the Box of Chocolates that
    this movie is offering, heh heh, so "Clueless" is cool, heh heh...  
    
    - Sean

    
    	The stupid movie isn't supposed to "A Streetcar Named Desire"
    	or "THE Snake Pit" come on take them face value; the kid knows 
    	how to play a kid in Beverly Hills, rich, spoiled and all
    	that.  She is a doll!
    	relax and enjoy!
    
    
    
    	Bob

    I saw Clueless on Friday because of the excellent air conditioning at
    the theatre.  I agree it was a great piece of fluff.  Next day I read
    an incredibly cranky review in the local rag about how unfunny the
    first hour was. The critic seemed uncomfortable about how dumb the
    character Cher was, figuring Alicia Silverstone must be a real moron to
    be able to play her so convincingly.
    
    Sheesh--how come nobody said that about Tom Hanks as Forest Gump?  I
    mean, it's _acting_ for pete's sake.  I thought it was terrific and bet
    she's got a good future for herself.  

    I didn't think the Cher character was particularly dumb.  Not very
    well-informed about some things, and heavily into various kinds of
    adolescent silliness, but with considerable common sense and
    self-confidence.
    
    -Stephen 

    
    	Most viewers don't have any other Alicia performance to compare
    	this to, so they base their observations on this 1 movie.  Tom,
    	on the other hand, has shown some versatility in a slew of other
    	movies.
    
    	Alicia was in "The Crush", I believe, but as far as I know that's
    	it so far.
    

    
    
     Alicia's Filmography...
    
       1.Clueless (1995) 1995 [Cher] 
       2.Hideaway (1995)[Regina Harrison] 
       3.True Crime (1995) 
       4.Cool and the Crazy (1994) (TV) 1994 
       5.Crush, The (1993) 1993 [Darian Forrester] 
       6.Judith Krantz's 'Torch Song' (1993) (TV)[Delphine] 
       7.Scattered Dreams (1993) (TV)[Phyllis Messenger] 
    
    

    Re .16--
    
    Right. A nice kid, no dummy. The plot, such as it was, played off this.
    Her basic good sense and decency emerged from the trappings of a stupid
    rich valley girl.  
    
    That's what galled me--the reviewer said the director had "too much
    sympathy" for the character. Apparently it annoyed him that she wasn't
    portrayed as an idiot after all.
    
    I hope my daughters have as much sense at her age.

    This movie just went on general release here in Blighty last week....
    
    I saw it at the weekend and thought it was really funny.... 8/10 in my
    book.
    
    And if being lacking in brain-cells mean that you can get a $10 million
    3 picture deal with Columbia Pictures, as well as start up your own
    production company by the time you're 18.... then I want to be this
    stupid.
    
    
    Reargards,
    
    
    Stephen