good satire

Rating: 7/10 (20 September 2000)

I went to this movie not because I was really interested, but because my wife went to high school with Tsianina Joelson and she wanted to check out her work. That being said, I was pleasently surprised. I was expecting fluff from what I knew going in, but from the wicked opening sequence I realized it was going to have some sharp, barbed satire as well. When I think about it, I should have known, since Kirsten Dunst usually does more sharp edged type movies. My only complaint is that the movie was a little schizophrenic. It seemed strange to mix the over the top satire of the opening scene and others with a fairly conventional and politically correct plot. Overall the acting was very good and fit the mood of the film, though it was obvious the actors were not high-schoolers anymore. My vote was a 7.