• Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 23, 1990
Metascore
38

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 9
  2. Negative: 4 out of 9

Critic Reviews

  1. San Diego Union-Tribune
    Reviewed by: Robert P. Laurence
    May 5, 2014
    60
    Ferris Bueller, at least, confronts its source up close and personal in the opening scene and gets it out of the way. [22 Aug 1990, p.D-9]
  2. Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    Jun 7, 2013
    42
    I can't imagine an insufferable little twerp like this hanging around NBC's lineup for too long.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Rick Kogan
    May 5, 2014
    40
    On the surface, Ferris Bueller can be seen and judged as harmless, high-tech hijinks. But it's subtly subversive, implying that success and popularity are the result of cunning and subterfuge rather than work and honesty. That's the same sort of greedy disregard for rules and regulations that got this country in its messy savings-and-loan quagmire. [23 Aug 1990, p.19]
  4. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Marvin Kitman
    Jul 12, 2013
    40
    Lacks the sharper edge of Hughes' movie. [23 Aug 1990]