Ten years out of high school in Arizona, and Romy and Michele the best friend heroines are living in Southern California. They've got a cute apartment on the beach, baubley clothes and a great capacity for unironic enjoyment: Watching "Pretty woman" on video for the millionth time, they can still be moved by the sadness. They have no jobs (well, Michele is unemployed) and no boyfriends, but that doesn't keep them from hitting the dance clubs together. The two have got irrational optimism and a blissful trust in one another's friendship. Then they hear about their 10th high school reunion - and proceed to get all bent out of shape trying to make themselves appear more succesful than they are. How they go about it - how they get psyched, humiliate themselves, fight to reconcile, prevail, woo the boys, and triumph while never making any sense on planet Earth - is the rest of this comedy fairy tale, directed with an indulgent hand by TV producer-writer-director David Mirkin (Newhart, The simpsons - a lot of good stuff.) Had 'Romy and Michele' been written by Wendy Wasserstein - at this point our bard of the contemporary American female condition - it would have been called "Uncommon High school woman and others" and it would have been a much better and tighter story. As it is, this sloppy, pleasant comedy is an amiable mess, a padded out expasnion of a play called 'Ladie's room' mounted nearly a decade ago, starring a then unknown Lisa Kudrow in a showcase role that eventually brought her to 'Mad about you' and 'Friends' doing much the same ditz-as-Zen-mistress character. There are so many good ideas packed into 'Romy and Michele' about friendship, revenge, about the kind of high school torture that never sees the light of day in "Grosse Pointe Blank" - that it may be uncharitable to yammer. There's a killer interpretive dance the two friends do with Alan Cumming. The music is dishy. So, like, I guess who cares if there's a long draggy fantasy portion in the middle? Who's carping that these girls couldn't possibly be so dumb and so savvy at the same time? They're, like, sort of like real girls from high school. And they just want to have fun.