| I don't know about all of you, but if my best friend from college and I had gone to high school together, we would have been B+ student versions of Romy and Michelle. Having said that, I enjoyed the characterization and the ideas behind the film, but found it a little....odd. The dialogue was sometimes devoid of any interest and the soundtrack wasn't 80's enough. But! With my ten year reunion looming 2 months away, and having a job and a life I could wish to be somewhat more...impressive, I found another way to identify with Romy and Michelle. |
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The short version is that these women were best friends in high school and are still best friends today, 10 years later, and are fairly unsuccessful by material standards. Their high school experience was as an offshoot of the normal pecking order, and they have anxieties about impressing the snobs they looked up to way back when. Needless to say, mayhem is supposed to ensue, but it doesn't really. |
| It's funny, but not laugh out loud funny, and it's interesting, but not enthralling. It's not a waste of money, but if you had to choose between high school reunion flicks to see in the theatre, I would again recommend Grosse Pointe Blank. |
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Mira Sorvino (that's Oscar winner Mira Sorvino to you) and Lisa Kudrow are surreal in their roles but not in a bad way. Janeane Garafalo is, as always, edgy and angst ridden, and always funny. There are gratifying moments, Big Kahuna in-jokes, and every now and then, an attempt at a Message (but not in a bad way). I say to everyone, rent this movie with a high school chum.
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