History Film / RomyAndMichelesHighSchoolReunion

* BrokenAesop: Debatable. The Aesop of the movie is ostensibly ' be yourself!' and is highlighted when Romy and Michele change from their business women suits into the bright, colorful clothes that they made themselves and everyone likes it! Of course, at the end, the [[strike:goth]] aggressively frumpy chick is seen getting a make over from Romy and Michele. Apparently, you should follow your own style, but only if it's cheery, bright and sexy. Aggressive frumpiness is not acceptable.

** Unless you're being frumpy as a defense mechanism because being yourself in a high school setting leaves you open for others to take advantage of you.
*** Agreed. She'd already sharpened up considerably just to go to the reunion. After getting over her past feelings for Sandy and hooking up with Clarence, it's believable that she'd want to finally move even further on from the days of high school.

* EnemyEatsYourLunch: Christy grabs and eats Romy's hamburger at lunch in high school to humiliate her.

* FeigningIntelligence: They try to pass themselves off as inventors of the Post-It note... it [[HilarityEnsues doesn't work out so well]]

* AvoidTheDreadedGRating: Averted. The light-hearted comedy has no sex, nudity, or violence but got slapped with an R rating because it had too many bad words. The filmmakers refused to change the dialogue and kept the rating. Lisa Kudrow criticized the MPAA for their decision while promoting the film.

* DawsonCasting: Justified in the high school scenes because most of the movie takes place when the characters are 28.

* ThrowItIn: Lisa Kudrow (who, in RealLife, [[GeniusDitz has a biology degree from Vassar]]) made up the entire glue formula on the spot.
-->Um, well, ordinarily when you make glue, first, you need to thermoset your resin, and then after it cools, you have to mix in an epoxide, which is really just a fancy-schmancy name for any simple oxygenated adhesive, right? And then I thought maybe, just maybe, you could raise the viscosity by adding a complex glucose derivative during the emulsification process, and it turns out I was right!

* TheOtherDarrin: Both leads of course. Katherine Heigl in particular does a spot on version of Lisa Kudrow's accent from the original movie (although Kudrow played Michele and Heigl plays Romy...).

* Fiction500: Sandy has become a very successful and wealthy guy that he has houses in Aspen and Acapulco,a mansion in Malibu,a penthouse in New York,a yacht,a Bentley,a personal trainer,a full-time chef,a masseuse,and the staff of 24.

* InventorOfTheMundane: Michele claims she invented Post-It Notes; [[InventionPretension it's a lie to try to impress her old high school classmates]]). Sandy invents some

* Fiction500: Sandy has become a very successful and wealthy guy.

* InventorOfTheMundane: Michele claims she invented Post-It Notes; [[InventionPretension it's a lie to try to impress her old high school classmates]]).

* InventorOfTheMundane: Michele claims she invented Post-It Notes; [[InventionPretension it's a lie to try to impress her old high school classmates]]).

* YouKeepTellingYourselfThat: When a former GirlPosse member shows up her class' AlphaBitch:
-->'''Christie''': [[YoureJustJealous You're just jealous]]. Because unlike a certain ball-busting dried up career woman, I might mention, we're all HAPPILY MARRIED!

* BrainlessBeauty: Vain, airheaded supermodel Linda Fashionbella.

* GirlPosse: Christie, Cheryl, Kelly, and Lisa. [[spoiler:Lisa, however, left the group and made a name for herself as the associate editor of ''Vogue'', while Christie and Kelly were content to be married, with children, and pregnant.]]

* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler: Lisa Luder, by the time of the reunion. She is genuinely impressed by the style and construction of Romy and Michele's homemade club dresses, and tells Christie to let her flunkies think for themselves when Christie insists that "they" still think the dresses are ugly.]]

* GirlPosse: Christie, Kelly, and Lisa. [[spoiler:Lisa, however, left the group and made a name for herself as the associate editor of ''Vogue'', while Christie and Kelly were content to be married, with children, and pregnant.]]

** [[spoiler: Totally averted; when Romy and Michele encounter Billy, now an overweight alcoholic, outside of the reunion, he reveals that the "successful career in construction" that Christie had touted him as having is merely his being a drywall layer for Christie's father's company, and that he doubts that the baby that Christie's carrying is actually his. He then propositions Romy for sex; she tells him to go wait for her in his hotel room naked, which he does eagerly, but she instead leaves with Michele and Sandy in Sandy's helicopter, having gotten revenge for a similar prank Billy and Christie played on her in high school.]]

* BlondesAreEvil: Averted. The popular, persistently bitchy Christie and JerkJock Billy are both brunette, while Michele is blonde and Romy has dark hair that she dyes blonde starting at the end of high school. The rest of the shallow, bullying "A-Crowd" are blonde, but this includes [[spoiler: Lisa Luter, who had matured and reformed by the time of the reunion.]]

** [[spoiler: Totally averted; when Romy and Michele encounter Billy, now an overweight alcoholic, outside of the reunion, he reveals that his "successful career in construction" is merely being a drywall layer for Christie's father's company, and that he doubts that the baby that Christie's carrying is his. He then propositions Romy for sex; she tells him to go wait for her in his hotel room naked, which he does eagerly, but she instead leaves with Michele and Sandy in Sandy's helicopter.]]
* HeCleansUpNicely: [[spoiler: Sandy Frink, having become a suave billionaire. Applies both in Michele's dream where he's had plastic surgery and in real life where he's simply dressed sharply, has a slick haircut, and is much bolder and less dorky]].

* PrecisionFStrike: The "flying" variety is memorably used by Romy in her takedown of Christie.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Romy to Christie:

-->Um, well, ordinarily when you make glue first you need to thermoset your resin and then after it cools you have to mix in an epoxide, which is really just a fancy-schmancy name for any simple oxygenated adhesive, right? And then I thought maybe, just maybe, you could raise the viscosity by adding a complex glucose derivative during the emulsification process, and it turns out I was right!
* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler: Lisa Luder by the time of the reunion.]]

* ValleyGirl: They act so much like one but aren't rich.

* GirlPosse: Christie, Kelly, and Lisa. [[Lisa, however, left the group and made a name for herself as the associate editor of ''Vogue'', while Christie and Kelly were content to be married, with children, and pregnant.]]

* GirlPosse: Christie, Kelly, and Lisa. [[Lisa, however, left the group and made a name for herself as a fashion writer, while Christie and Kelly were content to be married, with children, and pregnant.]]

* BlondesAreEvil: Averted. The popular, persistently bitchy Christie and JerkJock Billy are both brunette, while Michele is blonde and Romy has dark hair that she dyes blonde starting at the end of high school. The rest of the shallow, bullying "A-Crowd" are blonde, but this includes [[spoiler: Lisa Luter who has reformed by the time of the reunion.]]

* ClassReunion: Duh
* ConversationalTroping: The movie opens with Romy and Michele watching PrettyWoman and commenting on one of the TearJerker scenes. They are also rather GenreSavvy about their own genre: HighSchool movies and comedy movies in general.

* TheEighties: The flashbacks to high school, replete with heavy examples of....
* EightiesHair: Romy and Michele in particular were into experimental, Madonna-inspired 'dos (although one of the 'dos came from Madonna's Blond Ambition tour from 1990). Romy accidentally whips Michele multiple times with her three-foot-long bleached-blonde top-of-the-head ponytail while twirling at the prom.
* EurekaMoment: A magazine spread with models posing as [=CEOs=] gives Romy the idea to act successful for the reunion.

* GirlPosse: Christie, Kelly, and Lisa. Except Lisa left the group and made something out of herself.
* HeCleansUpNicely: [[spoiler: Sandy Frink, having become a suave billionaire. Applies both in Michele's dream where he's had plastic surgery and in real life where he's simply dressed sharply, has a slick haircut and is much bolder and less dorky]].

* InventorOfTheMundane: Michele claims she invented Post-It Notes ([[InventionPretension it's a lie to impress her old high school people]]).

* SeamlessSpontaneousLie: Michele comes up with a {{Technobabble}} explanation for her invention of "a special kind of glue" which is so plausible and off-the-cuff (see ThrowItIn, below) that she even surprises herself. [[spoiler:Shame it was All Just A Dream.]]

* ThreesomeSubtext: Sandy still has a crush on Michele, but doesn't bat an eyelid at her insistence that Romy dance with them as well. At the end, all three of them go home in his helicopter.
* ThrowItIn: Lisa Kudrow (who, let the record show, [[GeniusDitz has a biology degree from Vassar]]) made up the entire glue formula on the spot.
-->Um, well, ordinarily when you make glue first you need to thermoset your resin and then after it cools you have to mix in an epoxide, which is really just a fancy-schmancy name for any simple oxygenated adhesive, right? And then I thought maybe, just maybe, you could raise the viscosity by adding a complex glucose derivative during the emulsification process and it turns out I was right!

* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Michele and Sandy, Billie and Christie.

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot

* TheOtherDarrin: Both leads of course. Katherine Heigl in particular does a spot on version of Lisa Kudrow's accent from the original movie (although Kudrow played Michele and Heigl plays Romy)...

* TheOtherDarrin: Both leads of course. Katherine Heigl in particular does a spot on version of Mira Sorvino's accent from the original movie.

* EightiesHair: Romy and Michele in particular were into experimental, Madonna-inspired 'dos. Romy accidentally whips Michele multiple times with her three-foot-long bleached-blonde top-of-the-head ponytail while twirling at the prom.