"Dumb Blond Joke"
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What You Need To Know:
ROMY AND MICHELE’S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION isn’t a success. The women’s CLUELESS-impersonating demeanor quickly goes stale. Some of the humor is completely surreal and confusing. Kudrow seems to be playing the same role as in FRIENDS, and Sorvino seems to be dumbing down. This movie could have cut out some of its foul language to obtain a PG-13 rating, so that it would have been suitable for its real audience: teenage girls. There is no nudity, no violence and a only brief moment of sexual talk. Ultimately, the moral of the story is to be yourself, do what you love and the opportunities will follow.
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(Pa, LLL, V, S, N, A, D, M) Pagan worldview of young women who want to be successful; 21 obscenities & 10 profanities; woman hit by car; some sexual talk; upper male nudity & revealing costumes; alcohol use; smoking; and, lying, deception & lewd gestures
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Blondes may have more fun, but in ROMY AND MICHELE’S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION, they have less financial success. Capitalizing on the fears of the aging Generation X-er, this movie stands in the shadow of GROSSE POINTE BLANK and demonstrates that in today’s world, time and a high school diploma do not necessarily yield social status and big bank accounts.
Dim bulbs Romy (Academy Award winning Mira Sorvino) and Michele (FRIEND’S Lisa Kudrow) were best friends in high school in Tucson, Arizona, and have been roommates in Los Angeles ever since. While designing colorful metallic party dresses, the girls have not gotten the careers they wanted. Romy works behind a sales counter at a Beverly Hills Jaguar repair shop while Michele is currently in between jobs. They get wind from class cynic Heather (Janeane Garofalo) that their 10th year high school reunion is in two weeks. Depressed about their lack success, Michele and Romy decide that they need to lose weight and quickly find boyfriends and good jobs.
When they find none, they decide that they will dress up in business suits, borrow a Jaguar from the dealership and pretend to be co-creators of the Post-It notes. Then they can win the respect of their peers, especially from the A-group, jock-dating snobs who have always looked down on them. At the reunion, their deception is revealed, and their dignity is almost completely lost until they decide to wear their own creations capturing the fancy of a former classmate/Vogue editor.
For such attractive leads and an understandable plot, ROMY AND MICHELE’S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION isn’t a success. Their CLUELESS-impersonating demeanor quickly goes stale, and we never get a chance to root for them because the script tells us nothing of their post high school life except that it is difficult We do see, through clever camera tricks, what their life was like in high school, demonstrating that they didn’t identify with any particular social group.
Some of the humor is completely surreal such as a very stylized dance sequence and helicopter landings. Hence, the movie doesn’t know whether to be reality based or a fairy tale. Believability is also compromised in the premise that if their fashions are as good as the Vogue editor says they are, than they should have been discovered and been given designing deals already.
Kudrow seems to be playing the same role as in FRIENDS, and Sorvino seems to be slumming after doing an Academy Award winning role in MIGHTY APHRODITE. This movie could have cut out some of its foul language to obtain a PG-13 rating so that it would have been suitable for its real audience: teenage girls. There is no nudity, no violence and a only brief moment of sexual talk. Ultimately, the moral of the story is to be yourself, do what you love and the opportunities will follow. In today’s tenuous times, this adage may not have legs, unlike Romy and Michele.
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What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.
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