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Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Blondes rule
Review: Ok this film is a must see, Lisa Kudrow is a perfect blonde, i love her. This movie is a bright, fun loving, blonde classic wiv strong female characters.

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: no
Review: Don't see this movie. It's a waste of time and energy. It's just about 2 nit wits wanting to impress everyone at their high school reunion.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great & Happy Movie
Review: I got this movie when I was remodeling and frustrated with the progress that was being made. This movie instantly cheered me up. Romy and Michele may be the stereotype of dumb blondes, but the movie can sure make you laugh.

"I invented Post-Its."

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Ravishing Reunion
Review: This is a movie about two ditsy blondes: Romy and Michele.

Romy has a part-time job and Michele is unemployed. When Romy meets an old classmate (who invented the cigarette with the quick-burning paper "twice the taste in half the time"--slogan), she finds out that there is a 10-year high school reunion coming up for their school. She and Michele (they live together) realize that their lives aren't as great as they thought they were and decide to attend the reunion faking that they have great boyfriends and have jobs as buissinesswomen. During the time that they try to get boyfriends (this is before the actual reunion), they have flashbacks and have nostalgia about high school. Eventually, they go to the reunion and meet the people they once knew and disliked, as well as creating new relationships with people.

I won't say what happens at the end (I don't want to ruin it for those of you who haven't seen it yet!), but I will say that this movie is full of laughs and is a really great movie! I wouldn't share this movie with children, however, as they probably wouldn't get some of the humor and there is some harsh language (probably why it's rated R) that you might not want them to hear.

I give this movie 5 stars for the hilarity, and for how much I've watched it over and over again.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hysterical
Review: This movie is absoulutely hysterical! It's stupid witty humor is perfect. And it is a great cast. Perfect light humor if you want to ease your day.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: high school reunions taken to a hilarious extreme
Review: Romy and Michele are best friends who don't do much -- they watch "Pretty Woman" over and over again (best lines: "Oh boo hoo! They won't let her shop! waaah!" followed up by a tearful Kudrow saying, "I'm sorry ... it's just that it makes me so happy when they finally let her shop!")

With their 10-year high school reunion coming up, they have to reinvent themselves fast as successes. They decide that they will be the people who invented Post-Its -- because no one knows who those people REALLY are! While deciding on who gets what title in their fake company, they have a massive argument about which one of them is the Mary and who is the Rhoda (the funny thing is when I saw this in a theater the audience all went "oooooooh" as if to say "low blow" when one of them was called the Rhoda.)

Interspersed is a classic character played by Janeane Garofalo as Heather, an old classmate who really likes some weird cowboy guy who smokes on the football field.

It's all very funny, although I do wonder why Kudrow, at her 1987 prom, is dressed as Madonna on her 1990 Blonde Ambition tour. whatever.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Lightweight fun, but very, very funny
Review: This movie works because of the amazingly good natured attitude it takes and the wonderful chemistry of the leads. Kudrow and Sorvino are great together - you can really see them as buddies and comic foils for each other in a very natural, comfortable way. Kudrow, in particular, is hysterical. This is not a major film or weighty classic - but it is a great fun, fluffy, funny - mega-rewatchable feel good comedy. Garofalo is absolutely perfect as the surly loser and steals every scene she is in. For a good simple fun - HIGHLY recommended.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Dumb intelligence
Review: A dumb film with a genial intelligence that'll register once you're willing to forget what you should be liking - and just get on with watching the thing. Not flawless by any stretch , but it contains some very sharp , exquisitely executed gags. You wont sit there feeling short changed trying desperately hard to find it funny - like watching a disappointing episode of your favourite sitcom. The performances from ALL (not just the feted Janeane Garofalo) are excellent.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Sweet and Funloving
Review: Cute movie with much to look forward, it's so easy to fall in love with the charecters. Being in highschool, it really makes you want to enjoy what you can.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Why I don't attend class reunions
Review: This film milks the most out of what is a pretty [poor] plotline. Two fun-loving but less than intellectually astute blondes (let's just say that they're not the type of people whom you engage in the Hegelian dialectic with) find out that their 10 year high school reunion is coming up. As they both lead what they believe to be very "ordinary" lives, they have a plan to lie about their professions so as to impress their former classmates.

The strongest point of this DVD is its cute satire of what can & does happen at HS reunions. So many times the people who were thought to be "shoe-ins" for success end up falling flat on their faces. Meanwhile, the quiet people whom nobody ever paid any attention to end up becoming mega-successful. This is a theme that is played out in a myriad of ways throughout the film.

It is demonstrable that Mira Sorvino is a dynamic actress who can play just about any kind of character there is. She could easily go from playing a ditzy girl in the present film to playing college professor in her next project if she so chose.

It remains to be seen how far Lisa Kudrow's talents can stretch. The clueless blonde she plays in this story is pretty much a clone of her FRIENDS persona. I'd like to see her in a role that she's not typecast as.

The good news for this film is that Kudrow and Sorvino work well with each other. They are believable as best friends who have virtually never been apart. If nothing else, we get to view Kudrow in about a dozen different hairstyles during the movie, and she looks FABULOUS in all of them!

If you're looking for a cheesy flick that has some satirical moments, this movie is worth a look. It's not hilariously funny, but there are some comical moments. It's not a movie you will think about much after watching it, but it's just good enough to make you happy you saw it once.


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