what mall is it?

Though I have never been to either of them (I live in Illinois) I'm pretty sure that the Beverley Center was used for the exterior shots and the Sherman Oaks Galleria was used for the interior stuff. I haven't watched the commentary track in a while but I'm pretty sure this is what Wynorski said.

Also, I think Scenes From A Mall was shot at the Beverly Center and the end of Jackie Brown was shot in Sherman Oaks. Since these malls are both in California they get used a lot in movies. Valley Girl was another one at the Galleria. Hope it helps!

"I've seen things in this city that make Dante's Inferno read like Winnie The Pooh."

Yep, the exterior shot at the beginning of the movie was the Beverly Center and all the rest (interior) was filmed inside the Sherman Oaks Galleria...which was rebuilt after 1999 to an open-air mall. I like the original better!

Look at the opening credits, the street signs are in downtown LA, also some of the night shots show the LA area as well.

The movie was filmed mostly at the Sherman Oaks Galleria, but three scenes were filmed elsewhere, not counting the previously mentioned Beverly Center exterior shots.

The scene where the girls collect weapons was filmed at a hardware store. The director said in his commentary that he shot the scene "tight" (ie, no wide angles) to disguise how large the store was.

Two scenes were filmed at Roger Corman's movie studio. The air duct that the girls were crawling through was a mock-up, and the paint store at the end alternated between being a real store at the mall (in the shots where Kelli Maroney was looking out the window) and a reconstruction of the store at the Corman lot (the outside shots, the dumping of paint and other chemicals and of course, the explosion).

haha yeah no kidding its huge. Never seen a mall with a pet store lol

late to the party as always, but what the others said. Sadly, the oaks galleria was demolished in 1999, there's a new open air one instead, which is much smaller. i've been there (at the time I had no idea stuff had been filmed there) to the modern centre, which is OK but not very impressive.

however, here are photos of the old galleria pre 1999 (from the time CM was filmed). You can see the similarities!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3o62nlGlY1qzqju7o1_500.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UrVmKKdYxs8/U22nJB0sb0I/AAAAAAAAGSs/0sh4LVQSrjg/s1600/Galleria+first+floor+looking+north.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iaLpkV08a8A/U22nkb5ZtcI/AAAAAAAAGTE/lZtUn5MR_l8/s1600/Galleria+second+floor+looking+southeast.jpg

http://somekindofnostalgia.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/02_galleria_top_floor.jpg