'Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you're gonna miss it.'

"the most sophisticated teen movie ... ever seen," Almond

Roz Kaveney notes that what "Ferris Bueller brings to the teen genre, ultimately, is a sense of how it is possible to be cool and popular without being rich or a sports hero. Unlike the heroes of Weird Science, Ferris is a computer savvy without being a nerd or a geek—it is a skill he has taken the trouble to learn."