Clueless (1995)

I watched this film on Valentine's Day evening and it was fully enjoyable.
Here Cher (Alicia Silverstone) is a spoiled rich girl, growing up in Beverly Hills. She is beautiful but looks and appearance are all that matters to her. She doesn't really care about others, though she strongly encourages her father (Dan Heyada) to eat more vegetables. She also negotiates grades, using all sorts of different methods so her so-so grades can be improved. Naturally, this makes Daddy proud. However, he does get mad at her, when she drives her car without a license. One of the few things she can't negotiate is when she fails her driver's license test as she is a horrible driver.
In school, she is largely respected. Her best friend, Dionne (Stacey Dash) is quite similar to her, though Dionne does have a boyfriend, Murray (Donald Faison). After receiving a bad grade in speech, Cher decides to find her teacher, Mr. Hall (Wallace Shawn) a girlfriend, so she and Dionne turn the mousy Ms. Geist (Twink Caplan) into a hot babe so Mr. Hall will fall for her, which happens, and her grade gets turned from a C+ to an A-. This happens fairly early in the film.
The rest of the film revolves around Cher trying to do good. A new girl, Tai (Brittany Murphy) arrives at the school. She is horribly average looking and has a taste for skater boys, including Travis (Breckin Meyer), a skater and pot head. Instead, Cher gives Tai a makeover and steers her toward the respectable Elton (Jeremy Sisto, who has aged oddly since). However, despite all of Cher's attempts, Elton likes her and on the ride home from a party, tries to hit on her. Cher leaves the car and then is robbed at gunpoint. She calls the only number she can, her former stepbrother, Josh (Paul Rudd). Yet, when Tai nearly falls off a balcony at a mall at the hands of some random guys, she is hailed as a hero and takes over Cher's position as the most popular girl in school.
Luckily, a new guy, Christian (Justin Walker) comes along and Cher tries her hardest to woo him and lose her virginity, but it turns out (just like I predicted) that Christian is in reality gay. And then Cher is upset to learn that Tai has a crush on Josh, though she doesn't know why. She even tries to win Josh's attention and to prove that she is more than a snobby rich girl, she begins helping her hot-shot lawyer father with one of his big cases. Josh is helping too, because it is his ambition to be a lawyer, though the environmental one, to Daddy's dismay.
Luckily, everything works out. Cher helps out Ms. Geist with her charity case and Travis gets clean and soon Tai's crush on Josh is history. Tai and Travis end up together and so do Josh and Cher (also just like I predicted). Elton ends up with no one (serves him right). Dionne and Murray are still together and have had sex (not that that is horribly important to the plot of the film). The film is incredibly funny and enjoyable with a good soundtrack. It is also interesting to see these people before they were truly famous. And there is a message underneath all the gloss and fake fingernails, Cher does grow and change and the ending is a happy one, with Mr. Hall and Ms. Geist getting married at the end and Cher catching the bouquet. I will watch this film again as it was wholly enjoyable. Grade: B+