Lisa Kudrow (Michele) plays a great dumb chick . Her glazed-over dumb face in scenes where the pair confront the A-group chicks is hilarious. The school social structure portrayed in the movie, albeit presented in a highly clichéd form, will ring true for many viewers. At the top of the social scale are the attractive and self-confident kids who are often arrogant, mean and shallow. In the moral scheme of the movie they are seen to pay the price for these deficits ten years down the track, for example, relationship failure and alcohol abuse. As I'm sure many have experienced, people don't change and it can be pointless attempting to make friends with people who shunned you at school. But it is the wacky scenes in the movie which redeem it: Romy's dream while waiting in the car, invention as a means of creating unlikely wealth (fast-burn cigarettes, Postit notes), and the opening scene where the couple are watching Pretty Women for the 67?th time instead of playing down the beach. In short, some of the acting, wackiness and the grains of truth in the storyline save this movie from being total crap.
