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Think Ms Dumb & Ms Dumber. Or Wilma And Edine's Excellent Adventure. Romy And Michele's High School Reunion is a buddy comedy starring the gorgeous Mira Sorvino (Romy) and that mistress of adorable witlessness, Lisa Kudrow (Michele). These California lasses, who've roomed together since school, are cocooned in a rose-tinted world where girls make gaudy clothes, watch Pretty Woman "like a million times" and rely on each other with unshakeable innocence. They're both going on 30, single and looking for Mr Right, although they'd settle for Mr Okay and might even be tempted by Mr Average With A Large Hooter - - as long as he's loaded.
The plot is suitably predictable. A decade before, Michele and Romy were bullied by bobby-socked cheerleaders (Julia Campbell, Mia Cottet and Kristin Bauer), Romy had an unrequited crush on football player Billy Christianson and Michele had to fight off the attentions of amorous geekoid Sandy Frink (Alan Cumming). Now, of course, the roles have been reversed: Christianson is a two-timing drunk, the cheerleaders are up the duff and Sandy Frink has become a Bill Gates-style billionaire. Along the line, we also get a dream sequence, a broken friendship, a host of girlie one-liners, some pleasingly short dresses, a ridiculous dance number and the chance to ogle Kudrow in her underwear.
A Valley girl blend of Clueless and Bill %26 Ted, this offbeat comedy isn't designed for blokes. Nevertheless, Sorvino and Kudrow make for an attractive double act, and there are some bona fide funny lines. A more fleshed-out plot and less "woah" and "er, okay" would have helped.
