For the flashback sequences, this is fine, because memories tend to remember only the extremes. On route to the reunion, Michele has a dream sequence, where they arrive at the reunion, encounter their old high school classmates and find them as flat, simplistic, and cliched as they remembered. And that's ok too. If anything is true in life, it's that people surprise you. When one is nervous about a pivotal future encounter with someone, one invariably dwells upon the worst of the possibilities, but rarely does the meeting proceed as predicted.
People change in ten years.
Obviously this is not an easy social phenomenon to capture in a movie, but if you're going to do a high school reunion movie, you should do it right. As a cartoon, however, it works rather well and is sufficiently amusing to be decent featherweight entertainment. Links Internet Movie Database . More Reviews . Back to the Film Reviews for the 1990s .