Friday, January 27, 2006

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes, 1986)

Good to see you again, Ferris. After almost twenty years, I remembered a lot of its scenes. Which means I must have liked it in 1986 and I think I did. On this second viewing, however, the funniest scene is the ending school-bus sequence. The story's got a great rythm to unfold itself, but no character is really sympathetic or attractive. This is such a succesful role for Matthew Broderick that even today when I see him I call him Ferris, the older. Not bad, though.