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30 lines
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what do you get when you combine clueless and dumb and dumber ?
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to answer the question , you get director david mirkin's new comedy romy and michele's high school reunion .
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romy white ( mira sorvino , mighty aprhodite ) and michele weinberger ( lisa kudrow , tv's friends ) have been inseparable buddies since they graduated from sagebrush high in 1987 .
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however , when former classmate heather mooney ( janeane garafolo , the truth about cats and dogs ) confronts romy about the 10 year reunion , she is astounded that she forgot .
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watching pretty woman for the um-teenth time , they are reminded of how they wouldn't let julia roberts' character shop in the expensive stores because of her appearance .
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then it hits them : they are not successful .
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what are she and michele going to do ?
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romy's instant solution is lose some weight off their already slender frames , " bag a couple of boyfriends , " and get jobs .
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romy says this will be easy , but michele retorts that if it is so easy , why hadn't they already done it .
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robin schiff's script keeps the show moving with some nice one-liners .
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one of the best has romy reminiscing about her life's battle against the bathroom scales .
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" i was so lucky getting mono , " she says looking at her thinnest high school picture .
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" that was like the best diet ever . "
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the casting for the film is so perfect that one begins to suspect that the leads were chosen and then the script was developed .
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romy and michele use their high school yearbook to discuss the caste system at their high school .
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the film's editor david finfer dissolves the stills from the yearbook to live action flashbacks which makes the past come to life .
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at sagebrush high , the hierarchy consisted of the a group ( cheerleaders ) , the b group ( drama club ) and the c group ( nerds ) .
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romy and michele were none of the above .
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ridiculed as " the weirdoes , " they were constant targets for abuse .
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even though they were quite attractive , they had so much fun being together that they did not care about the others .
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that they make their own outlandish clothes helped keep the wall around them .
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complementing romy and michele's lightness , is janeane garofalo as the dark , pudgy heather mooney .
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heather , who invented a new cigarette paper for cigarettes with " twice the taste in half the time for the gal on the go , " has the success and the money that they would like .
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heather was even more of an outsider than they were in high school .
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garofalo's one-dimensional role is only a side show .
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this is a two person film with the other characters there merely for the two leads to bounce their lines off of .
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the genuine chemistry between sorvino and kudrow makes for a sweet and sometimes touching comedy .
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they have so much fun acting out their parts , their enjoyment spreads to the audience .
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