I have a few years before I'm ready for my 10 year high school reunion, but I'll bet it won't be as awesomely hilarious as the reunion in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion! Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Lisa Kudrow) are best friends who live together in LA, and are excited to find out about their 10 year high school reunion in Tuscon. In order to impress their former classmates, the pair decides to pretend to be businesswomen (who invented Post-its), and hilarity ensues. By taking a stroll through memory lane and confronting their past and present issues, Romy and Michele learn to live their own lives, stand up for themselves, and have a blast.
I love this movie! It's silly and fun, and super quoteable. All of the high school stereotypes are present and accounted for, including the "A group" (aka the bitchy popular crowd) and the nerds (Alan Cumming and the delightfully cynical Janeane Garofalo). Some of them have changed in the last ten years, and some are exactly the same. Romy and Michele march to the beat of their own drum.
This movie has some hilarious moments...Romy boyfriend hunting, Michele somehow knowing the recipe to glue, their wonderful dance at the end. Sorvino and Kudrow are great together, and very convincing as best friends. Watching them slow dance together at their prom, both dressed as Madonna, is oddly touching. Who's to say who's the Mary and who's the Rhoda? Anyone who went to high school can surely find something to relate to in this film. At some point, we all felt we weren't cool enough, or attractive enough, and maybe we bullied or were bullied. The point is, high school is NOT "the best years of your life" and everyone is capable of reinventing themselves. This film explores that in the funniest way possible.
Happy viewing, and don't forget to bring your yearbook!
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