Why do people like Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris Bueller's Day Off Is a mean-spirited movie. Ferris fakes that he's sick to cut school for the 9th time that year. He somehow even though he's "sick" goes to school and says his girlfriend's grandmother dies to have her leave school. He ropes his "best friend" Cameron into coming even though he's legitimately sick. Ferris then wrecks his friend's dads' car and everyone's getting concerned that Ferris is sick even the newspapers and the cubs have signs and articles saying save Ferris. In the end Cameron has to pay for what he didn't do and Ferris doesn't get caught. The one excuse everyone always gives me is that it's funny but that doesn't hide from the excuse that it's mean-spirited and after kids saw it they probably thought that they could do whatever they want and not get caught. So why do people like this movie?