Poorly conceived and badly executed.

Rating: Null/10 (21 April 2004)

The utter self-absorption of the infantile main characters makes this absolutely unwatchable. Was it Horace or Vince Van Patten who said, "It is when I struggle to be cool that I become embarrassing"?
As noted elsewhere in these comments, Ethan Embry turns in what has to be the most annoying performance of the 90s as mouth-breather Mark, flailing about like the misbegotten lovechild of Lucille Ball and all three Stooges. Liv Tyler turns in the same performance she always turns in, i.e., the Little Wooden Girl, and Renee Zellweger just generally looks embarrassed to be there. As with Airheads (but not, interestingly, High Fidelity), the really painful part is the music they have the actors perform in their noble and selfless efforts to save the record store--it honestly made me burn with shame for them. A film to be shunned.