Romy and Michele's High School Reunion . Tucson Weekly . 05-22-97

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

DIRECTED BY: David Mirkin

REVIEWED: 05-22-97

To write any sort of review about this movie seems superfluous, as in a rare moment of commonality everyone in America would seem to fall into one of two categories: already seen it, or wouldn't be caught dead in the theater. Nonetheless, here goes: In an odd pairing, Mira Sorvino (wasn't she some serious albeit Academy Award-winning actress?) and Lisa Kudrow (of Friends fame) get dolled up as late-20s childhood friends living the low life in Southern California and scheming to appear rich and successful at their 10-year reunion in podunk Tucson. One of the more annoying aspects of Romy and Michele is how Sorvino sounds like a New Yorker trying to sound like a Southern California native. As anyone knows, this would never happen in real life. There are lots of other aspects to Romy and Michele that equally do not correspond to how real people behave, even at reunions, but they're more fun to watch. But really, not that much fun. Unless you just really like to watch presumably smart actresses look embarrassingly shallow and dumb. At least in Grosse Pointe Blank some of the dumb people die. Here, they all fly away in a helicopter and live happily ever after.

--Mari Wadsworth

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