I Watched *CLUELESS* For The FIRST TIME And Its PROBLEMATIC! (Movie Commentary and Reaction) 

I think the key quote for the step-siblings thing is "and you were barely even married to his mother." I've always assumed it was one of those handful of months marriages, so they never really bonded as siblings.

As I think others have said this is a modern adaptation of Jane Austen'a Emma. Cher is Emma who ends up with her neighbor and family friend who is 16 years older to her (and whose younger brother is married to her older sister), so these kinds of romantic relationships that now seem a little creepy are hard in modern adaptations. But overall this is actually a very good modernization of the novel and characters.

yes it’s crazy for tai to care about elton that much when they didn’t even go out but that’s also very accurate for a 15/16 yr old girls as well lmao

this movie is such a classic. and the fashion has aged so well cause people dress like this till this day

It’s funny that everyone is so freaked out about the step-brother thing lol. “Gross, no, I can’t date this guy bc my dad was married to his mum for a few months six years ago 🤮” what?? There’s no blood relation and no reason you’d see them as your sibling-it’s just some kid you could have met through any other circumstance. Idk, I personally don’t find it weird. It’s no different than the child of a family friend at that point.

Your wife telling you to watch is brilliant. She’s a lady of art and culture. We Stan that 😂

The 'Haitians' pronunciation blunder was purely Silverstone messing up, but they kept it in because it fit right in with her character. Plus, did you notice that the gum matched her outfit? Both yellow

I saw this movie with my whole family and asked my parents if her grades were legit. My mom (a school teacher): "if you can successfully get your grade changed from a C+ to an A-, then that's the grade you earned."

Brittany Murphy really could sing and I'm sure she would've been something incredible. She was in 8 Mile with Eminem back in the day if that's any indication. The world lost a great talent when she passed. RIP Brit 🙏

It’s pretty rude how Paul Rudd can’t age yet the rest of us do 😆 Also, really miss Brittany 😞💔

Also, so yes, they were step siblings, but their parents divorced a long time ago and were only married a short time (still weird, but not to the degree you were saying). Also you pointing out that she's 16 and he's at least 18...So? A 2 year age difference is neither weird nor uncommon at that age. Even if he's 19, that's a 3 year difference, and there are plenty of high school seniors dating high school freshmen.

Lowkey the point of the movie is that Cher is actually super smart and that while she’s clueless, people also judge her a lot without knowing her. Her friends are a lil superficial but they are good people and good friends. I feel like parts of the point of the movie flew passed ur head😭

20-ish years after ‘Clueless’ released, I literally started leading Cher’s lifestyle. Any conflict and then it’s OFF TO THE MALL!

No... this is a movie for ANY TIME of the year. Love this movie!!! Thank you for reacting to it!!!

It's definitely a classic! Most classic movies are problematic and it's okay to like them as long as we point out what's wrong with them, I mean look at the movie "Big"🤷🏽‍♀️

Paul Rudd is just so gorgeous. He’s just so nice to look at. ❤️

17:12 I think the director was very clever. She went so meta that you knew what was going on but still mildly surprised. Amy Heckerling deserves a lot more credit.

If you ever want to hear the Actress that played Tai sing, then watch the movie *Happy Feet* (it's a musical) . She plays the Penguin named Gloria. 😀

11:06 Technically, a major plot development in ‘Emma’ takes place at a Christmas gathering. So, might as well add that in the adaptation.

a lot of the comments have already pointed out that this is an Emma adaptation, so you should definitely check out one of the straight adaptations of the novel! my favorite by far is the 2020 version with Anya Taylor-joy as Emma, but the 1996 version with Gwyneth Paltrow is pretty good as well. you could even turn it into a Jane Austen-themed viewing and check out pride and prejudice (2005), sense and sensibility (1995), persuasion (2007) and so on, or the more crazy adaptations like pride and prejudice and zombies

the fashion in this movie is very underrated cher and dionne’s outfits were iconic.

You gotta add Blast From the Past to your react list please! Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek and the 90s... need I say more!! Love your reacts!!

3:48 Yes it's a thing and people do die from post complications My friend Caitlin died in 2017 at age 22 from that and colon cleaning routine. Not sure exactly how but yes it's a real thing. She has just graduated from that France chef school cordein blue or something and moved from Houston to Austin to start her chef adventure. Really miss her she didn't even get a chance to live what she learned in chef school. 💔

Loved your reaction! By the way, if u thought the relationship between Josh and Cher was cringy then try and watch cruel intentions.

20:39 Ok, that is an attac on me for taking crushes and acquaintances more seriously than they actually are. But thank you for calling us out, I guess?

Lol great reaction, you made me laugh more than the movie. Same on not hanging with that sort of people but I love having a bowl of popcorn and just watch them. Oh and thank you for getting Let’s go to the mall reattached to my head just after I stopped randomly singing it.

Today, Clueless might seem a bit problematic but it is still pretty enjoyable movie . Also it is based on the novel by Jane Austin - Emma - which was written in 1800s so yeah, some concepts may seem a bit "dated". You should watch Emma now - ideally the version with Anya Taylor Joy.

The most Christmasy 90s Jane Austen update is definitely Bridget Jones' Diary. Worth a reaction if you've not seen it.

i’ve been subbed to you for over a year now (since the jatp videos) back when you had less than 1k and i just saw you hit 30k !! a huge congrats, it’s been great to see you grow :D

I was JUST watching your Detroit streams, catching up

This is my favorite comfort movie. I first saw it as a kid on TV sometime around 99-01. Even with it's problematic moments, I think it still holds up well. RIP Brittany Murphy 💕

Dude your predictions are spot on with this movie

also, paul rudd is supposed to be in his first year of college, so he's about 18

she sure is problematique™️ but “you’re a virgin who can’t drive” is such an iconic clap back and cher also confirmed to me that i am indeed a bisexual as someone who watched this for the first time in like 2020 lol

That fairy tale cottage you briefly commented on is the Spadena House, aka The Witches House, is a beloved iconic Beverly Hills home and is a protected landmark.

Reaction Guy: “Do people get routine liposuctions?” Me: “Ummmmmmmmm yeah?”

"Three Fugitives" -a really sweet comedy with Martin Short and Nick Nolte. Suggestion.

I still can't believe how long it cost me to see this was a "modern" adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma lol

hey, speaking of britney murphy, you ever seen uptown girls? from what i remember, that movie was actually really good and might warrant a reaction

My favorite teen comedy film, fun fact Paul Rudd met his wife during the making if the movie.

One of my favorite movies growing up , it’s one that when it came out on vhs I would watch it over and over and missed some days of school

Your review was hilarious 😆

I've never heard the expression "Cake Boy" before or since this movie came out. It still confuses me.

I spat my drink out when the kentucky bit came up 🤣

I love this movie. Great reaction!

It’s a modern retelling of Jane Austin’s Emma , a lot of teen movies were modern adaptations of classic literature

This will forever be a comfort movie

Well, it's REALLY problematic but it's an adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma so it's really dificult to adapt some relationship into a teen movie in the 90's (and in the Austen's novel, Josh/Mr. Knightley is 16 years older then her AND is friend of her father, so this is much less problematic)

lol when he's so sure that he called the ending

That clip of the singer singing "Let's Go to the Mall"-that's the gym teacher in this movie!

The reason we’re almost not surprised by this movie is because this movie is the start of most teen tropes done to death.

Yes! I love Clueless and the tv show was one of my favorites growing up (every night I’d watch Sabrina, Sister Sister and Clueless). The only thing that I didn’t like is that for some reason they removed the character of Christian from the tv show…. I wonder why

LOVE THIS MOVIE

Always loved this movie - we actually used to watch it in English class in my high school since it’s based off Shakespeare lol.

that’s a frisky polo u got there

Elton is no Felix sir, how dare you. lol. This movie is such a weird classic. Great reaction.

90s Classic

As a Persian, the ‘Persian mafia’ quote always makes me laugh 😂

this movie is so iconic

Only because my friends and myself were in our early to mid 20s when this came out (I was 24) and the line we used to say to one another when the other pissed us off .... "You're a virgin who can't drive!" BEST FRIGGING SHADE EVER!!!! lol

Since we’re getting in the period of Christmas, may I suggest that you react to Love Actually plz 🙏

She did a movie two years before called the crush that also had an other guy with a young girl. I think during that time in movies that was seen very heavily

I love this movie man

Like, get over the step bro/sis thing. He does not live there, he’s just helping his ex step dad with a legal case. They are so cute together! It’s not like they’re kissin’ cuzzin’s! I LOVE Alicia Silverstone in anything she does. I LOVE Paul Rudd because I know he would turn totally gay for me… if ever we meet! 🥰😋🥰

This movie is a modern day "Emma" by Jane Austen. Seriously, it was modeled after Jane Austen's "Emma", but for modern day.

Could you please react to ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (2005)? It’s awesome. Or do a series on ‘Pride and Prejudice’ adaptations.

I know it’s not a Christmas movie but I really hope you get to Tick, Tick…Boom soon. I know you will love it

As others have mentioned, this is an Emma adaptation. I highly recommend Emma Approved for a modern adaptation.

I’d like to recommend Grumpy old men, I think ud love it and it’s a Christmas movie!

This is one of the best reaction to Clueless!! Follow

i like the clothes!!! some of the jokes have def aged out but i can see the appeal from older audiences ~

You know what other movie I think you’d like? Freaky Friday, with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan

My God dude... Ritilin. Take lots of it.

22:08 You just explain OG Married Royals. Interesting chemistry but aren’t they related or something?

i like clueless simply for the aesthetic and the fashion, the stepbro plot weirded me out alot lol.

Yes please do heathers

Ahh... The beginning of my love for Paul Rudd. 😍

As someone who grew watching movies like soul man, revenge of the nerds, short circuit,big and it being acceptable. My problematic meter may be broken

“ you were barely married to his mother, and that was five years ago “ meaning they were stepsiblings when Cher was like 11 and Josh was 13. For a very short amount of time.

Now I really really want to see your reaction to Easy A with Emma Stone.

Kentucky born!

lol lol if I have to tell you again, movie logic, zip it hahhahaha

I always thought this movie was fun either way. The step-brother thing wasn't necessary, but it didn't really bother me, either. She mentions earlier in the movie that her dad was "barely married to his mother", which indicates a very short relationship. I think a brotherly/sisterly bond relationship is very different from the kind of relationship that is displayed. I can also understand why the idea might ick some people out, as well, though. Personally, I just don't think this is a movie to think too deeply about. It's just a fun romcom ^.^ Also, watching your emotional rollercoaster of a reaction was hilarious. "What is happening in this movie?!" xD

The 90s were really into stepsiblings love... See also, Cruel Intentions.

Have you ever watched Secondhand Lions? Cats Don't Dance?

Potentially unpopular opinion. You can't apply today's standards on artistic works of the past. It would be pretty ignorant to call every work of Shakespeare problematic. Right? Or to toss out all of classic literature for their problematic sexism, racism, lack of diversit, homophobia, transphobia, etc? The 90's was 3 decades ago and at the time this film was released these ideas weren't considered by the public to be hugely upsetting, so take them with a grain of salt and just understand that society changes as knew generations are born and society experiences cultural shifts.

Your predictions tells me you haven't read emma lol

Will you please react to Noelle on Disney+ one of favorite newer gen Christmas movies

I don’t have issue with the previous step sibling thing. The age of consent in most states is 16 (tho CA is 18), but even back in the day when this movie came out, I thought the age gap was a problematic. They could have maybe have made Cher a HS senior who was late to take her drivers test

If the step-sibling thing weirds you out, I recommend staying away from about 50% of Japanese love stories and about 98% of all fanfiction. XD

There are so many familiar faces in this. Btw isn't her father's actor from The Addams family?

The real title for this video should have been :" WHAT DID I SAY? I AM TOO GOOD AT THIS!" lol. I am laughing at your comments and it's 2.50 am.

It's not weird. They're parents aren't currently together and apparently it was for a very short time. Also, it seems like it was recently so it's not like they were children or anything. They were trying to find a "current day" version of her sister being married to his brother (the whole almost family but not really) and I think this is a reasonable version that really makes sense in this universe.

"See? I'm just too good at predicting these movies!" He says, after predicting that Josh would fall for Tai, after watching a scene in which Josh did not show any interest in Tai 🤣 "What did I say? I'm too good at this!" He says, about "predicting" that Christian was gay after the movie already showed him ignoring women and flirting with a guy 🤣🤣🤣 Happened a couple other times, but you picking up on what the movie is trying to make you pick up on isn't a 'prediction', it's just you saying what the movie is showing you and then acting like you predicted the thing the movie told you was going to happen lol.

He's a freshman in college right so he's only 18 or 19?

I love this movie and I'm pretty sure that you will too.

Clueless aka Mean Girls in reverse. I absolutely loved this film as a kid and Alicia Silverstone was my first crush ever. AS IF!! 😋😋😋

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Clueless is an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma (just like West Side Story was a remake of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet). If you read Emma, you’d know that Josh’ role is a takeoff on the fact that Emma’s older sister married Josh’ younger brother. So, again, while there’s no “relationship “ between the two, & they are referred to by others as brother and sister (brother-in-law, sister-in-law) AND there’s a huge age gap between the two (I believe about 16 years, IIRC) the family relationship merely gives them more of an opportunity to mingle w one another than would otherwise happen in the early 1800s. Emma (like Cher) enjoys matchmaking, altho only the very first of her so-called efforts could be called a success. Her problem is that while she has very definite opinions, she is young & hasn’t seen much of the world. Basically, she thinks she knows best but it comes from a place of complete lack of knowledge combined w strong feelings of class consciousness. So. The biggest problem you have w the film is basically the way they attempted to match up the “family tie” bet Cher & Josh. The writers do stress that the marriage was quite short, and thus the idea that either Cher or Josh would truly think of one another as “brother” & “sister” is totally off the table. The rest of Emma is rather convoluted but the basic premise of Elton always having a thing for Cher; Cher never realizing this and attempting to get her new friend involved w him instead; and Elton being a complete and utter shit follow directly from the book. As well as the mixup between who Cher believes her friend is interested in (bc of recent events) and the sudden awful realization - after the fact - that she actually loves Josh herself. The book is wonderful but if you prefer movies, they made a great movie w Gwyneth Paltrow in 1996 (‘97?) you can google - but it’s truly fun (albeit it doesn’t have the 1990s flair of Clueless. If you have ever enjoyed period pieces - or if your wife has had you watch period pieces with her, and you’ve thought: hey, not bad! this would be like that. OR you could watch the A&E version of Pride and Prejudice made right about the same time w Colin Firth and a woman and COLIN FIRTH (did I already mention him?) He plays the perfect Mr. Darcy. Like if you looked him up in Webster’s dictionary you’d see a (beautiful) picture of Colin Firth re Mr. Darcy. To the extent that when Bridget Jones Diary was made, Colin Firth got the role Mr. Darcy (albeit it wasn’t [exactly] the one from Jane Austen.) Still and all, if you don’t wish to watch around 5-6 hours of P&P (the A&E adaptation is lovely but long), Bridget Jones Diary is a hoot and it’s only about (IDK) 90 minutes? That would be (sort of) in a vague way… similar to a remake of P&P but not nearly to the extent all the other movies adhere to the plot lines of the earlier films or books. And it’s amusing and fun and filled w Britishisms (which I love) and Hugh Grant is also in the film, not stuttering nearly as much as he normally does, and without saying anything re how the story ends, the credits scene is one of my favorite end scenes I’ve ever watched in any movie ever. And I not only like films of today, films from the 1980s and ‘90s but old films from as far back as the 1930s. So I feel I have a fairly good basis upon which to make that statement. (Altho, admittedly, I haven’t watched many hard core thrillers. Bc our country is scary enough and I occasionally wish to sleep.) I’ve now seen two of your videos, by the by, and I would say you are born to do this work. JMO. But I think you’re excellent!!

Clueless while inspired by the jane austen novel is also a satire of american culture and its youth at that time 😅. Tbh, still relevant today.