Tedfoldol
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Odelecol
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
SnoopyStyle
Romy White (Mira Sorvino) and Michele Weinberger (Lisa Kudrow) are dim-witted blonde best friends in L.A. Romy runs into her high school classmate Heather Mooney (Janeane Garofalo) who is now wealthy with news of the upcoming Sagebrush High School 10th year reunion in Tuscon. The girls decide to go but then they realize that they are not as successful as they thought they were. Despite their best efforts, two weeks are not enough and they decide to lie about their lives. When the girls were in high school, they were picked on by popular mean girl Christy Masters. Romy was in love with Christy's boyfriend Billy Christianson and they played a trick on Romy. Michele was in a back brace. Mooney was secretly in love with fellow geek Sandy Frink but he was in love with Michele.Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow have both played iconic dim-witted blonds. In this movie, they pull together their performances and it's a wonderful pairing. Their friendship is really the glue that holds this movie together. The dream sequence in the middle could have been cut down. Also Sandy Frink could have been played by a hot nerd rather than Alan Cumming. There are some hilarious fun and some uncomfortable awkwardness. I would have loved these great actresses go for a sequel.
jc-osms
I just noticed the advertising slogan for this movie ("The blonde leading the blonde") and kind of wished that whoever came up with that witty one-liner might have hung around to help with the screenplay itself, but this is still a reasonably amusing chick-flick about two ditzy blondes working dead-end jobs in L.A. who decide to crash their old Tucson high- school tenth anniversary reunion and make a point to the three bitchy seniors who picked on them during their time there.That folks is the sum of the plot as our female Wayne and Garth set out on a road-trip in a fancy borrowed car to Tucson, improbably power-dressed as the company executives who invented "post-its" where they predictably crash and burn, even falling out with each other in the process, before assisted by the intervention of two of their even weirder former-classmates, right all the past wrongs done against them and of course come out on top, friendship and status intact, indeed enhanced.Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow are both equally likable as the blonde and blonder leads, stupid but sassy with it. Alan Cumming is the most prominent support as the school geek with a crush on Kudrow's Michelle who grows up to be a multi-millionaire inventor and who comes to their rescue, with helicopter, naturally.The funniest scene by far is the threesome's show-dance at the end and there are some other amusing scenes and lines too along the way, but probably not enough of them. Still, rather like TV's Laverne and Shirley from the 70's, Kudrow and Sorvino have you rooting for them from the start and it's their cuteness, kookiness and finally loyalty to one another which ultimately make this an amiable if shallow watch.
PlugInYourBrain
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion put Sorvino's then soaring career into a tail dive.It took in $30M at the box office. Not a flop, but far below expectations. At the end of the day, movies are about making money. So despite proving her chops as a comedy actress, Sorvino didn't get a second chance. She tried many other genres, but somehow always picked movies that didn't do well at the box office. (She's now in a new TV series: Intruders) Kudrow has done a bit better, but never became an A-lister.Why didn't Romy and Michele do better? Perhaps it was expectations. The caliber of the cast and the fun premise has us expecting something far better. On first viewing I was very disappointed. I almost hated it.But the first 45 minutes is very good. It has enough laughs, and the characters (and the actresses) have a lot of charisma. Romy and Michele are a Folie à deux; a happy pair of fools who share the same delusion. They're fun to watch and it looks like we're in for a real treat.But after that first 45 minutes, with a few exceptions, the movie falls flat. The last hour of the movie is about the reunion itself, but this is poorly told and poorly directed. Laughs are few and far between. The whole thing is carried on two very weak jokes, which in a sitcom would no more two throwaway lines. But instead of hitting us with new jokes, Director Mirkin and Writer Schiff recycle the same two weak jokes over and over again.This has been done before and done much better. Even teen comedies like Patrick Dempsey's "Money can't buy me love" have a far more compelling plot. So after the build up, we're left disappointed. Perhaps it was bad word of mouth that killed it.But I watched it again, and while my comments still apply about that last hour, there's still a lot to like. Sorvino and Kudrow are brilliant, and there are iconic scenes (like Garofalo's Cowboy) which carry a lot of weight and a few good gags (the suit cracked me up). If there were more of these, the movie would have been a classic. The interpretive dance at the end is nerdy but very sweet and I loved their "Stayin' Alive" too.For the first 45 minutes I'd give it 8/10 (4 stars), but that last hour drags it down to 6/10 (2 stars).There have been attempts to relaunch Romy and Michele. In 2005 Shiff launched a TV series which by IMDb comments was badly written. Sorvino and Kudrow are begging Disney (Touchstone) to let them do a sequel, but Disney is baulking. Perhaps they can't imagine a movie with two 40 year old female leads? Perhaps they think the Valley girl undertones are passé? Perhaps Disney don't want to give up the rights either? Hollywood is competitive, and studios have been known to buy rights to scripts just to stop another studios possibly making a hit.And perhaps after two disappointing outings they don't think Shiff can deliver? I think Shiff had a wonderful germ of an idea here. If she stands back and lets more experienced comedy writers take it further, her franchise may yet deliver.
alfredblue2
i really don't like this movie as the rating you just saw me give it on the top of this review. Of course everyone expected this movie to stupid and believe me i did. But just because i expect something from a movie doesn't mean i will like it. I don't know her real name cause i don't care to even bother but she is known as Phoebe from the hit TV series Friends.I only allow stupidness in movies if its funny but this is not the funny kind as you can see.I could see how this movie would attract a lot of woman but i am a male and i don't like this stuff. Maybe there is another movie like this out in the world. But if there is i hope i never see it. I hope i have made it very clear that i don't like this film and i hope to never see it again. I give this film a F
