Romy and Michele's high school reunion

Year of release : 1997

Run time : 1h32m

Genre : Comedy / Buddy / Screwball Comedy

Cast : Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, Alan Cumming, Janeane Garofalo, Camryn Manheim, Justin Theroux

The movie is a buddy, screwball comedy released in 1997, which became a cult classic. The characters of the movie are from the stage play Ladies Room, that Lisa Kudrow also played in.

The movie opens with Romy and Michele who watch Pretty Woman for the 36th time, pretending not to like it, and make fun of it,when we know they do.

They live together in Los Angeles, and think they live a pretty great life, until one of their former high school school mates, Heather, comes to pick her car from the car shop Romy works at,telling her about their high school reunion.

The girls want to go, but they realize they didn't achieve anything, they are still single, Romy is a cashier while Michele is unemployed.

After looking through a magazine, seeing models pretending to be business women, Romy has the idea to pretend they invented something, like post its.

Thinking back at their lives in high school (when they were best friends)), they realize maybe they weren't as popular as they thought.

During these reminiscing scenes we see the popular kids, which they call the "A group", were making fun of them, as Romy was in love with the popular kid who was dating the popular girl, and Michele was wearing a back brace.

At the same time, a smart, nerdy guy, Sandy Frink, was in love with Michele, while she never gave him the time of day, while Heather was in love with Sandy.

The movie kinda bored me. I only laughed once. I didn't appreciate the fact it was like a fantasy of the nerds who get to be respected by their bullies, and their bullies have miserable lives, and end up being the mocked. That was very predictable.

The characters were unlikeable, starting with the leads, who were mean to others by their own admission, Heather who was mean to a girl who was nice to her (and not just her, she has a mean attitude), Sandy who was mean to Heather..so pretty much everybody was mean to the ones who liked them and was nice to them.

The two leads are also dumb, with Michele being dumber than Romy, as Romy has all the ideas, and tells her what's what.

I liked the girls' style,clothes and jewelry.

The acting was fine.

The soundtrack was good.

The movie received positive reviews while the audiences gave it a C on an A+ to F scale. The movie made 29 million dollars against a budget of 20 million dollars.

The movie got a tv prequel in 2005, and even a musical adaptation in 2017!

Rating : Could have been a contender !