I like the basic plot of this movie: two friends go to their high school reunion. They are confronted with old fears and feelings and decide to lie to their former classmates about their success in life. It's common to go to these events and find out that the geeks are still geeks, and the mean girls are still mean girls, and to reflect on how you wish things had turned out differently. As the leads, Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow are both likeable and their friendship is convincingly portrayed, but I don't know if having them both as blonde ditzy characters works. It makes the movie a little too lightweight and their issues are too similar. As the school rebel, the character Heather, played by Jeneane Garofalo, does have a very interesting character - unlike Romy and Michele she is so non-conforming and so different that you wonder why she bothered to go to the reunion. I guess it's so she can stand at the edge of the event and provide an acidic commentary and counter-point to the sugary, utterly fake festivities. Which she does do, very well. The cowboy character, who would smoke with Heather at high school but never used to utter a word to her, was amusing. At the reunion Heather doesn't seem very sympathetic to his explanation of how he used to behave, but he doesn't seem to mind. Almost ruining the movie, for me, were the three "mean girl" characters. I know this is a light comedy, but they were almost cartoon characters they were so stereotyped. They were too predictable. In the end there are no surprises from the movie. It didn't strive to be anything other than a bubbly soap opera. This was disappointing, because Kudrow, Sorvino and Garofalo are all intelligent women and probably deserved a better movie.

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.

This movie left me with giggles and smiles all over! If you're looking for a deep and meaningful, complicated existential bullshit, this is not the movie for you. This, however, will make your life a shade brighter, even if it's just a while.I loved both Mira Sorvino's and Lisa Kudrow's characters. The simplicity of the characters, though predictable, is very lovable. Usually, I'd be "P.O."-ed if the movies get to predictable but this is one of the rare ones that is actually bearable to watch. I'm fond of it even. They hit the home run on all of the obvious tropes. And the dance sequence and the ending!! UGH. SO MUCH WIN.Basically, the movie plays all the things that you want to happen in your high school reunion. Also, the movie actually holds palpable but meaningful lessons that you learn after high school (or when you get over it - or else you might just end up like Christy and Billy).All in all, this movie is a feel good movie that is very relatable and will bring some fond (but some may be bitter) memories from high school days. This movie is fun to watch, especially if you have a high school best friend that can be paired with these two's tandem.Rate 8/10

Most everybody remembers their high school years with mixed affection, even those in the "A" group had their share of torture, whether it be someone they were dating, teachers that hated them, parents that didn't understand them, etc. Those of us who attend at least one class reunion can all identify with "So what do you do now?" We can't say, "I'm the President of the United States" or "I'm a big movie star", but we can dream of coming up with something to impress that makes us seem better than who we really are. In the case of Romy and Michelle, they want to get past the memories of being mistreated by the "A" group at their Tucson Arizona high school, boys who either didn't know who the heck they were or got excited just by being near them, and come back to their Venice Beach California home with some sort of dignity.So what do these cool fun women who make great party outfits do? They come up with a whopper of a lie and claim to have invented that item that everybody knows about but whom nobody seems to know who invented it: Post-Its! One invented the glue, the other chose the color. Cool, right? It all seems to work until a former rival who ran into one of them at their uncool job at a car rental shop shows up and threatens to spill the beans.A great mix of dumb blonde comedy, fun 80's music, bad 80's hair and the slobs versus the snobs, "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion" is a comedy of stupidity that works in a very subtle intelligence level. The two friends are obviously devoted to each other, and as played by Oscar Winner Mira Sorvino and TV's Lisa Kudrow, they seem as perfect a couple as Lucy and Ethel, Mary and Rhoda, Laverne and Shirley, Patsy and Edina, well, you get the drift. "I'm the Mary, You're the Rhoda!" one yells at the other during a sudden argument, and this threatens to split them apart. "You're the Jewish one!", the Mary wanna-be tells the other. But once they see the nasty girls who are still just as nasty, loyalty is not only tested but things are revealed about the "A" group that many of us can attest to from high school reunions we've gone to.Jeanene Garafalo is hysterical as the class freak, a goth-girl/genius who has invented the quick-burning cigarette. Broadway vet Alan Cumming goes through several different looks as a nerdy geek who becomes a multi-millionaire, and Julia Campbell perfectly spoofs the spunky cheerleader type who manipulates her friends (all but one) and is obviously overly self-obsessed. It takes a while for the film to get going, mostly vignettes of Romy and Michelle's life together, trying to find a good job, find a decent boyfriend and dealing with the sexy Latin lothario that the one works with at the car rental place. But even though there's a long-time of set-up, it is all done in fun, and when meshed together (even with a fantasy sequence that threatens to slow down the film but really doesn't) the result is a future film classic that late baby boomers can particularly relate to (like me) and younger audiences will see some of the build-up to what has become now their generation. So have a ball, pull out your Cindy Lauper records, Madonna outfits, and just enjoy.