Wow--This movie has certainly become dated

Rating: 3/10 (15 January 2007)

I remember when this came out--it was 1995 and I had just graduated high school and was entering university. Everyone I spoke to who had seen this movie at that time really liked it, but I thought it looked totally lame, so I never saw it.
Fast forward to last night, when I did! Owch! It was so bad. Worst of all, the music, the clothes, all that stuff--I wore the little minis, the belly shirts, the big boots, dated boys with skater haircuts--now I know how my mom felt when she looked back into the '70's and realized that the Farrah Fawcett hair and big owl glasses were not the height of style.
Plus the plot on this movie was weak, weak, weak. If there EVER was a place where people could work and this kind of adolescent s**t went on, even in the mid-nineties, I would guarantee they would get fired. What kind of manager puts up with this drama? And to have an employee have sex with a guest in a closet AT WORK? Classy! Dancing with your shirt off in the aisles? Woo-hoo! Sounds professional to me! Why not shave your head at work before your shift--and leave all your hair in the sink? Yay!
But I guess I perhaps missed seeing this in the window where it might have been relevant to me. I hope that teenagers today realize that someday they are going to look back someday and see just how silly their fashions (hello 80's new wave! Wait--there's nothing new about it) will look with 12 years distance. This movie takes whatever coolness that existed in the time period and encapsulates it into a sitcom-esquire music video. So I do have to say, Booo.
On a horrible note, this movie brought home the fact that Renee Zellweger has NEVER BEEN YOUNG. Liv Tyler and I are the same age (29) and I don't think that she looks much different, which is a good thing. Renee Zellweger looks like a less pruney version of herself, but definitely not a teenager!
Don't waste your time on this crap! See "Kids" or even "Swingers" if you want a cooler mid-nineties vibe.