Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)

Awesome Movie

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Blistering performances.

I had always heard this was a "guilty pleasure" or some kind of minor cult classic, and it being my own 10 year reunion this summer I thought I would finally check it out. Well I don't think it's either of those really, though I suppose guilty pleasure always fits to some degree.It's a just alright, broad, semi-funny look at female friendship above all else. Mira Sorvino's accent is the scene stealer here, it's some kind of Californian valley girl monstrosity that takes on a life of its own throughout the movie. Is it just me or does it become more pronounced when she returns to Tucson, where no one has that accent? Is this a subtle shade of "acting" on her part, the accent an affectation she picked up in SoCal to distance herself from her terrible adolescence? There's also Justin Theroux who plays a cowboy with a goofy southern accent. I've got nothing for that one.

Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow star in "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" from 1997. The two are best friends and, when they hear their 10th year high school reunion is coming up, decide to attend and show all the mean girls how well they've done. Except they haven't. They have two weeks to get boyfriends and decent jobs. "If it was so easy to do, why haven't we done it already?" Michele (Kudrow) asks.Both of them decide to say they invented post-its, apparently not planning on talking to the same people. Michele negotiates with a friend for a halfway decent car, and the two take off. At the reunion is someone Romy (Sorvino) recently ran into, Heather Mooney (Janeane Garofalo), a sarcastic, tough individual who was madly in love with a boy, Sandy Frink (Alan Cumming) who was crazy about Michele. She never gave him the time of day. Heather really has invented something, a paper that goes around the fast-burning cigarette.Very cute movie with wonderful performances by the leads, Kudrow as the clueless Michele, who never actually knew she was out with the out crowd; and Sorvino as Romy, who learns that Michele thought of her as Rhoda while she, in her mind, was Mary - "why aren't you Rhoda? You're Jewish," Romy complains. A huge fight ensues.Others in the cast include Julia Campbell, Camryn Manheim, Justin Theroux, and Kristin Bauer van Straten.In the end the women learn there's nothing wrong at all with who they are and that they are, in fact, pretty fantastic and good- looking to boot. I liked it because the writers didn't beat us over the head with this "lesson," it's just what happens in the story, as does the discovery of a talent they didn't realize they had.The tenth year high school reunion would make these people 28, but in reality, with the exception of 30-year-old Sorvino, the actors are all in their mid-thirties. Interestingly, if it were made today, I think the actors would be the right age - the business has changed quite a bit since "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" was made.

OK ... it's NOT meant to be "Gone With the Wind" or even "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" but .. come on people ! This one is STOOOOOPID !!! to the extreme. Why I finished it, I have no idea... compulsive movie watcher, I suppose! Poor Lisa plays Phoebe again. Mira wonders if they will take her Academy Award back. The snotty girls are all just snotty tho' they do remind me of several posters on the Classic Film Board now that I think of it. The Vogue editor in her man's white suit .. shrug ! Garofolo and her cigarettes and swearing .. YAWN !It's just LAME and pointless even when it is not doing that on purpose.Alan Cumming's dance with both girls at the very end was the only really good scene and it was ... well ... ODD to say the least. The less said about this film the better. Give it a miss!

In a movie where no one and I mean no one is very nice, is it hard to attach onto someone to root for? Why, yes! And it's even enjoyable to finally get to see them shop!I used to describe this movie as the "female Dumb & Dumber," and in reality, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion is, in fact, just that. But, let me assure you: it's 10x funnier and has more originality than the Jim Carrey movie will ever have.I just rewatched this movie for the, I dunno, fifteenth time and even though it's been about a decade since I last saw it, I found myself laughing out loud so many times, I couldn't count. So many memories, so many great characters, so many rude behaviors that would normally make me squeamish, made me burst out this time. Again, I understand hardly anyone is a "good person" in this, but their so-outrageous behavior made this slapstick comedy all the more enjoyable.Further, so many scenes and lines brought back such great recollections that I marveled in the comedic genius behind the screenplay. One that stood out, that made me stood up to watch, was the (Mild-spoiler, sorry) Romy-Tell-Off scene towards the end. I could watch that few-second scene dozens of times and never tire of it.(One more major spoiler, and if you haven't yet seen this, please skip to the next paragraph…) When I first saw this in theatres, I thought this movie was "just okay" and when it came to a scene that one character dreams of what the reunion is going to be like, I rolled my eyes. "Here we go again," I thought, for in many sitcoms, much like The Brady Bunch or movies, one character will dream of events they've never partaken in, but are worried about, and lo, following the dream, the next day, normally, they encounter the exact same scene/set up, even though it was physically impossible for them to predict/dream of what was to come when they've never encountered it. Here, Michele dreams of their pending High School Reunion, but, upon waking, the actual reunion is far different from what she imagined. Now, that's real life. That's exactly what would really happen. It was that moment that I admired and LOVED this film.Romy & Michele reminisce on their high school days of Tucson, Arizona's past once told about their upcoming high school reunion. But tensions rise between the non-gay BFF ditzy blondes of (now) L.A.'s beaches when the truth of who's (a VERY tad bit) smarter than the other right before they get to the reunion. Will they make up? Will the endless and set-up in advance old high school students finally realize who they were meant to be with or avoid?It is a comedy after all.With one of the best soundtracks, after all. And cleverest lines, and deep acting for a slapstick comedy. And fairly good cinematography and overall originality. It's also one of the absolutely funniest movies that still holds up today, for the most part – Flip phones, anyone? – of all time.Revisiting this movie, I now realized it's been far too long between viewings. This movie is amazing. I know I've seen this many times, but I found myself laughing, sometimes for joy, more times that I could count.I say: See it! And she says: Me, too!