Sugar and Spice: Perky cheerleaders rob a bank.
Meet Me in St Louis: Perky girls, old school.
Hairspray: Tracy’s pretty perky.
Saved!: OK, maybe not. But, you know, maybe.
I never saw the end of Saved. It was pretty snarky with a dark undercurrent, if I recall. But the Mandy Moore and Jena Malone cuteness might be enough to offset the darkness with bright-eyed perk.
Gorgonzola, you apparently don’t watch much Buffy. This is a pretty silly statement:
This, on the other hand–
Duh. Of course, Miyazaki! Probly *Nausicaa *first, then Princess Mononoke.
Is that one of those movies where the girl absolutely repulses everyone until she takes off her glasses, at which momentt she is beautiful?
Haven’t seen it. But the original, 1976 version would not meet the OP’s requirements – because the teenage protagonist is a rough-edged tomboy athlete, not a perky cheerleader type.
You know, I would have expected that the heyday of this kind of film would have been in the '50s and early '60s – before feminism and other disturbing trends; the days when a straightforward, unreflecting story about perky teenage girls would have been nothing but normal. I’ve never seen such films from that period, but it seems logical. Yet nobody has nominated any yet. I wonder why?
I do recall a few Disney comedies from the '60s about college students, but they all focused on male characters – the girls were simply foils and love-interests.
Maybe the Frankie-and-Annette beach movies?
How about classic stories of young women? Jane Austen is always good - Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense & Sensibility. There’s also “Real Women have Curves”, in which the herione isn’t exactly perky, but a possibility. My niece and nephew loved the old version of “Yours, Mine and Ours”, a true story of a widow with 8 kids marrying a widower with 10.
StG
“What a Girl Wants” Amanda Bynes and Colin Firth. Cute, perky - no sex, no language, but entertaining and funny (and Colin Firth wears leather pants).
The Lizzie McGuire Movie - completely innocent fun with Hillary Duff sneaking off to impersonate a rock star in Roma. Perky as all hell - but Hillary Duff can’t do anything but perky - its her entire range.
Chasing Liberty - Mandy Moore as a first daughter who escapes her secret service handlers and runs off in Europe with some strange guy on a motorbike (who turns out to be one of her secret service handlers). Little more sex, but perky…very perky.
These are the sweet harmless romantic comedy type movies. No bite. Mean Girls has some bite (and is a good movie). Clueless is well done. Bend it Like Beckham has bite and drama.
What a Girl Wants (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286788/) is a lot like The Princess Diaries.
Well, on the one hand you got your Jody Foster. On the other, you got your Lindsey Lohan.
Any questions?
I would be remiss if I did not mention the paragon of films that involve perky college girls- Animal House
Mean Girls, and 10 Things I Hate About You are both excellent !!
Cartooniverse
If cartoons count, then the Kim Possible movies/series count just fine.
Mystic Pizza, sugar and Spice, Drive Me Crazy, MOna Lisa Smile, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Fame (although it did have the TV series to go along with it), Valley girl, 16 Candles, Short Circuit (although I am not sure if Ally sheedy is in college she is about the same age as a college girl, same with Maid to Order.
Another vote for Chasing Liberty (with Mandy Moore and Matthew Goode), which was a very loose remake of the B&W minor classic **Roman Holliday ** (with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck). In both movies, a naive, privileged young princess (or America’s First Daughter) breaks free from her handlers and structured routine and enjoys some freewheeling adventures in picturesque Europe while going incognito – all the while falling in love with a new friend on the fly, who (as a journalist/Secret Service agent) turns out to know who she is and who surreptitiously protects her from various menacing types and unwanted media exposure. In neither tale does the girl lose her virginity with her handsome swain while on the run, although not necessarily for lack of trying. In the original, the social order is primly restored; in the remake, the First Daughter is able to eventually reconnect with the guy while attending college.
Or rather, holiday. :smack:
emm, now that I think of it , have of vivid videos could fall under this heading
Declan
Hmm, well, it’s really an observation (and I stand by that observation, whether you find it silly or not) about what teenage and young adult women at my workplace watch, rather than what broads like me watch, but I have watched a season of Buffy, after my 6 millionth viewing of the Firefly series. I can’t say much about it, other than that it was no Firefly.
Honestly, for fluffy girls who are bound to have an instant dislike to anything that looks or feels like anime, these are not good picks. I find Kiki’s Delivery Service makes a much better first Miyazaki exposure for Bring It On types. And no subtitles. 
I’m not sure if it fits the genre, but you might try ‘Adventures in Babysitting’. It’s pretty silly and has the standard fluffy happy ending.
It’s kind of like a Baby-sitters’ Club novel gone awry.
Well, that makes more sense. Still; Buffy’s pretty universal, once you get past the first season and a half or so. Ultimately, it blows Firefly out of the water. But the OP said the main objection to Buffy was its serial nature. So moot.
Kiki’s much younger; she’s pretty pre-teeny. Nausicaa and Mononoke–the characters–are older, and the adventures are, um, adventureyer.
I have no desire to speculate, really, lissener. I am simply reporting what I have observed from a number of years observing what certain females of this age group will watch, and in what groupings. I kind of got the impression that this was what the OP was asking for.
And while I support forever your right to boldly and publicly state that one Joss Whedon series, uh, ultimately blows another out of the water, you were first to mention the word silly?