Hey everyone, how's it going? I had to take a short break from the Troll series. I was starting to get burnt out and I figured that a lighthearted movie or two would be good between all the low-budget nonsense of Troll. So it's time for Clueless!
Surprisingly, this is my first time watching Clueless all the way through. "What?" you might be asking yourself. "And you say you have, like, taste in movies? Ugh! As if!" Honestly, I tried years ago, but the valley girl dialogue turned me off so much. But I decided I needed to give it a watch for this, so I did. And I'm glad I did. I *spoiler* liked this movie.
I’m not a prude when it comes to movies, I’m just highly selective. I mean, you see how picky I am about my shoes and they only go on my feet.
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First, the cast is stellar. This was the big break for Alicia Silverstone and Brittany Murphy, though Silverstone had been featured in some famous Aerosmith music videos ("Crazy," "Cryin'," and Amazing"). Stacey Dash had been in some big movies (Mo Money and Renaissance Man) and Paul Rudd was on the show Sisters, but I think it's safe to say that their careers went into overdrive after this. Wallace Shawn was most likely the most well-known actor in this movie. But no one in this is bad at all. It's refreshing, after watching three out of the five Troll movies, to watch something with good acting in it again. Amy Heckerling was the director, she had previously done Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Johnny Dangerously, National Lampoon's European Vacation, and the first two Look Who's Talking movies.
I'm not going to go into huge detail with this, every scene is a gem, and you should watch it yourself. But I will break down the plot and describe key moments, so... spoiler alert.
We start our story with a montage, not always the best way to begin a film, but it works here. The Muffs do a cover "Kids in America" and all the cuts are fast and stylistic. Cher narrates "So OK, you're probably thinking, 'Is this, like a Noxema commercial, or what?!' But seriously, I actually have a way normal life for a teenage girl." This is a great intro, you see and understand pretty much everything you need to know about the characters. You see them shopping and driving (poorly) everything is cool, stylistic, and fast-paced. Cher and her friend, Dionne, are living in Beverly Hills and very much fall into the "valley girl" stereotype. Even though they don't live near the valley. If you're not from LA, you wouldn't understand. But Cher also helps take care of the household. Her Dad is a litigation lawyer, so they have money, and Cher assists in directing the maid and gardener in their duties. Not in a selfish kind of way, and she is never intentionally mean to them. More on that later. Cher also has a piece of computer software that has ALL of her different articles of clothing in it, and it helps her pick out an outfit, and even lets her know if it matches or not. What? Why did the 80s and 90s make computers seem so much cooler than they are in real life? She also takes care of her Dad, making him drink Orange Juice for vitamin C and scheduling someone to come by and give him a flu shot at his work. Her mother passed away while she was young, so she stepped up into that role. Near the beginning of the film, Cher's Dad lets her know that her ex-step brother, Josh (Paul Rudd) is coming by for dinner. Cher is disgusted, she hates Ant-Man and reminds her father that he and Rudd's mom were only married for a short time, a long time ago.
Cher is soon in debate class, where she is given the assignment of taking the "pro" position to the issue of refugees entering America. She pulls off an impassioned, if unresearched and simplistic, analogy of her father's birthday party and how people showed up who didn't RSVP. Well it threw her whole plan for the party into chaos, and she had to reseat people and redistribute the food, but it ended up working in the end. And she closes with the classic line: "And in conclusion, may I please remind you that it does not say R.S.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty?" The class applauds, but the teacher is less impressed. When all her grades come in, she gets a C in debate and other classes. But as she tells her father, this is just the first offer, and is a "jumping-off point for negotiations." She convinces all her other teachers to raise her grade through her skills in persuasion, except for her debate teacher. He tells her that changing her grades is INCONCEIVABLE! (He didn't, but Wallace Shawn is the debate teacher, so...). Cher and Dionne go shopping as therapy, and she wonders why her arguing didn't work. Dionne reminds her that Vizzini is a sad, lonely, old man. Still single at 49. Suddenly, Cher figures it out! She needs to get her teacher hooked up with someone, to become happy, to change her grade! They pick another teacher, Miss Geist, played by Twink Caplan. They manipulate/encourage the two teachers to get together, which they do. Wallace Shawn gets happy and changes Cher's grades.
For all you kids out there, this is where Iggy Azalea got the idea from
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Brittany Murphy's character, Tai, transfers to this school. When she comes on first, she's wearing jeans and flannel and a... she's wearing a god damn troll shirt. I mean troll as in the troll dolls, which were popular at the time, and not any of the Troll movies. But god damn it! I watched this movie to get AWAY from trolls. And now my old crush, Brittney Murphy, shows up wearing a damn shirt with a troll on it.
Anyway. Cher decides to take Tai under her wing and do something nice for her. Cher calls Tai "totally clueless" and figures a makeover and hanging out with the "popular girls" will both make Tai popular and, therefore, happy. We very quickly learn that Tai and Cher come from very different backgrounds. Tai has had sex, done drugs, and is attracted to one of the school's "loser" skateboarders. But Cher is determined to get her hooked up with a popular boy named Elton. "If you make the decision to date a high school boy, they are the only acceptable ones," she tells Tai. When Tai asks which one is Cher's boyfriend, she responds all grossed out. "As if!" Cher doesn't date, as she is disgusted by high school boys. Later in the movie, she delivers this classic monologue "I don’t get how guys dress today. I mean, come on, it looks like they just fell out of bed and put on some baggy pants and take their greasy hair – ew – and cover it up with a backwards cap and we’re supposed to swoon? I don’t think so!"
So Cher keeps trying to get Tai and Elton together. They all go to a party in the valley, have some beers, smoke some weed. The skateboarder dude spills some beer on Cher's shoes, ruining them, which infuriates her. At the end of the night, Elton ends up giving Cher a ride home, instead of Tai like Cher was insisting. They park in a convenience store parking lot and Elton tries to put the moves on Cher. She tells him "No" a couple of times and asks him "What about Tai?" Elton said he would never go out with someone like Tai. Cher gets out of the car after he tries, again, to kiss her. In classic douche mode, he tells her to get back in the car, she says no, and he drives off. Cher then tries to call for a taxi, but she gets robbed. A dude puts a gun to her face and takes her phone and purse and, worst of all, makes her get down on the ground in her Alaia dress. After he leaves, she's got no money but manages to call Josh. He's with a college girl at his dorm, but as soon as Cher starts to cry on the phone to him, he tells her he'll come to pick her up.
Ant-Man comes to the rescue and picks up Cher, with his date in tow, and the two college kids sit in the front seat of the car, pontificating at each other. Now THAT I can remember. Being 19 or 20 and thinking I knew everything because I had taken 5 or 6 college classes. But anyway, the girl uses the "To thine own self be true" and attributing it to Hamlet. Cher says "Hamlet didn't say that." The girl gets real snotty with "I think I remember Hamlet accurately." Ugh, I DEFINATELY used to know people like that. I also used to be like that, too. Now I just say "Are you sure? I'm pretty sure" and then look it up. Cher locks it down with "Well, I remember Mel Gibson accurately, and he didn't say that. That Polonius guy did" referencing the 1990 Hamlet film. Rudd laughs to himself, proud of Cher.
Cher and Dionne break the news about Elton to Tai, and she's devastated. It hits even more later, while they are in a restaurant, and Collio's "Rollin' with My Homies" comes on. She thought that was their song because they briefly danced to it. Also, what restaurant plays "Rollin' with My Homies" in the 90s? This was a decently nice place, like a Coco's or something. This is when it's revealed that Cher is "saving herself for Luke Perry" aka is still a virgin. She gives the aforementioned Baggy Pants monologue over World Party's cover of "All the Young Dudes." It's then that she meets her boy. A transfer student named Christian (Justin Walker). He shows up to class wearing black pants, a white t-shirt, a black jacket, and sporting a 1950s style haircut. He looks really cool, walking and talking like he's a man out of time. Cher is smitten and the two of them end up going out. He doesn't impress Cher's dad OR Ant-Man when he comes to pick her up. He drives a 1954 Nash Metropolitan, which I don't think I've seen before, and is a bitchin' little convertible.
We find out that Christian loves to dance, loves art, and hanging out with guys. Cher is convinced that he is into her because he rejects all other women who come around. They are all at a party in a club, Tai is there, and Paul Rudd followed them. No one dances with Tai, so he decides to be nice and dance with her, so she won't feel left out. Later, Christian comes over to watch movies with Cher. We find out that he is a huge Tony Curtis fan and LOVES Spartacus. Hmmmm. At this point, I think the viewer knows what's going on. He rejects all Cher's physical advances and then ends up leaving, feeling "tired."
Later, Cher is driving with Dionne and Dionne's boyfriend. He's trying to teach Dionne how to drive for her test. Cher explains the whole, weird Christian thing to which the boyfriend explains that Christian is gay. Cher doesn't believe it at first. The scene gets terrifying real fast as Dionne, not knowing what she's doing, accidentally gets on the freeway. She panics as trucks and other cars are flying past her, her boyfriend trying to yell panicked instructions over her screaming. They eventually get off and pull over to the side of the road, calming down after their "brush with death." If you think they're exaggerating, well, they are, a little. But man. On my second driving lesson, the second time I ever drove, we went onto the freeway. And my next two lessons did as well. I was absolutely petrified, scared beyond belief, I barely knew which side was "brake" and which was "go" on the pedals. The only thing that would have made it worse is if it was an LA freeway.
This part of the film is when Cher's reality starts to come crashing down. Cher, Tai, and Christian are at the mall together, Cher accepts Christian as just a friend at this point. Tai is flirting with some guys, who end up dangling her dangerously over the railing on the second floor of the mall. Christian steps in and saves her, the guys saying it was "just a joke" ("It's just a prank, bro" if this movie was made in 2022). Tai becomes the center of attention at school, having had a near-death experience, and this is when you get the idea that Tai has changed. Then, Cher tries to tell the maid to instruct something to the gardener, because he doesn't speak English. This offends the Hispanic maid, who doesn't speak Spanish, and that confuses Cher. Paul Rudd tells her "Lucy (the maid) isn't from Mexico, she's from El Salvador." Cher still doesn't understand what the difference is. When she takes her driving test, she does HORRIBLY, sideswiping another car, among other things. The driving instructor makes her pullover, not even allowing her to drive back to the DMV, and failing her. She tries to argue and persuade him, as she did with her grades earlier, but it won't work. She goes home, defeated, finding Tai and Rudd hanging out. She anticipates Rudd will give her a lecture about being irresponsible, which he doesn't. Tai wants to talk to her. She has a box of stuff relating to Elton and she wants to burn them, with Cher. Tai then confesses that she thinks Rudd has a crush on her. Cher doesn't think that he does and tells Tai that she doesn't think they'd be good together. Tai is insulted, thinking this was a personal jab at her, and tells Cher "You're just a virgin who can't drive."
The next scene is a classic. Cher is wandering outside, trying to come to grips with what's been going on recently. Between the Christian and Elton and Tai and driving situations, Cher admits "I'm the one who's clueless." It's a really impactful scene when you think about it. See, you assume going into this movie that Cher will be a selfish, dumb, ditzy blonde. And yeah, she's no Rhodes Scholar, but she's not stupid and she has a heart. This is when she comes to grips with the realization that she isn't as wise as she thinks she is. She lacks wisdom about the world and turned Tai into a monster. And this is also when she realizes that (oh boy) hold on to your nuts... SHE is in love with Paul Rudd. Yep. Her ex-stepbrother.
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The awkwardness of this potential relationship never weirds her out, but what does upset her is that Paul Rudd knows her for who she is. She can't put on a superficial show to entice and manipulate him, because he knows the real her. Her lack of worldly wisdom and knowledge is exemplified as she watches the news with Rudd, who doesn't know why she's watching the news. The Bosnian War is being shown on the TV (sadly reminding me of the currently ongoing Ukraine Invasion, but moving on). Cher is confused, saying "I thought they declared peace in the middle east." Yeah, it's a funny statement, but the best example of Cher realizing just how out-of-touch she is. She then confesses to her Dad that she's in love with a boy who doesn't love her back and she wonders if she's good enough for him. She doesn't say who it is, mind you, so her dad responds with a very positive response of "obviously this boy is a complete moron" and "to tell you the truth, I'm not sure I want you with a stupid fella like that." He then reminds her of how valuable of a person she is, about how she takes care of him and the household, and that he hasn't seen someone like her since her mother. This uplifts her and encourages her to go forward.
Cher decides what she needs is another makeover. But this time, a makeover of the soul. She wonders to herself "But what makes someone a better person? And then I realized, all my friends were really good in different ways. Like, Christian, he always wants things to be beautiful and interesting. Or Dionne and Murray, when they think no one is watching, are so considerate of each other. And poor Miss Geist, always trying to get us involved, no matter how much we resist?" Miss Geist is talking about the recent Pismo Beach Disaster, how sad it is, and how all those people lost everything. Cher decides to volunteer to help with donations. This is the turning point for Cher who, while she has been nice and helpful to people, this is her first act of... I would say pure selflessness. This isn't doing good for her dad or friends, it's doing good for strangers, and there is a difference. She gathers food and clothes and athletic equipment from her house for donations. She helps Miss Geist run the event and, while there, the stoner skateboard dude donates a box of food and his bong. He then apologizes to Cher about ruining her shoes, which Cher doesn't even recall at first, but then tells him not to worry. But he has to go around apologizing as part of his twelve steps... good for him! Anyway, he invites Cher to a skateboarding event he's in on Saturday. She says sure and goes. Shortly after arriving, Tai comes up to Cher to apologize. Cher apologizes also, they hug, promising to never fight again. In the next bit, we see the skateboarder pulling some tricks, Cher realizes that he's really motivated. "I had no idea" she says. "Oh, I did," Tai responds. Cher realizes what she should have seen all along. Tai likes the skateboarder.
A stoner, crusty girl being into a stoner, skateboarding, crusty boy? Inconceivable!
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Rudd and Cher are helping their dad organize information for a lawsuit, assisting one of dad's assistants. The assistant proves to be an ass, as he realizes Cher was doing it wrong, setting them back a day. She apologizes, clearly upset at herself, but the assistant yells and insults her, calling her an "idiot" and to "go back to the mall." Rudd tries to defend her, saying she's not an idiot, to which the assistant tells him that it wouldn't have happened if he hadn't been "playing footsy with the dumb kid." Rudd says he doesn't know what the assistant means, which makes the assistant leave. Cher is sitting on the stairs, devastated, thinking that she ruined her dad's lawsuit. Rudd sits with her and tells her not to worry about it, he'll take care of it. He then chastises the assistant for insulting her and implying there was something between them. Rudd tells her that he needs to do this work because it's training. He wants to become a lawyer and go into environmental law. He then tells her "But you, I mean, you don't need to be doing this. Go out and have fun, go shopping." Cher looks at him and, calling back to the film's opening thesis statement, says "You think that's all I do, I'm just a ditz with a credit card?" Rudd stammers over his words, telling her she's beautiful and popular. But he doubles down on the learning experience and how her dad is the only one who cares about him. Cher looks at Rudd and tells him that her did isn't the only one. And then they kiss. Eww.
Cher narrates "Well, you can guess what happened next." And it's a wedding. wtf, this escalated fast! Then she catches us, "As if! I am only sixteen, and this is California, not Kentucky." Well, apparently, it IS Kentucky, since you just made out with your ex-stepbrother. But no, the wedding is for Wallace Shawn and Miss Geist. I'm really happy they ended up together. When it comes time to throw the flowers, the girls show up. And the damn maid, Lucy, is there, in her maid outfit. And at first, I was confused, why is the maid at the wedding of Cher's teachers? Matter of fact, why is the crowd full of high school students? Then I realized that Lucy was there because the wedding was being held at Cher's house. Oh okay, that makes sense then. But hold on a second... why is the wedding being held here? Who knows. Anyway. Cher catches the flowers. She kisses Paul Rudd in public, which apparently everyone is okay with, and then the credits roll. The end.
Clueless was released on July 19, 1995. It had a $12 million budget and was a hit, making $56.6 million. It debuted as #2 in the box office, behind Apollo 13, and was the 32nd highest-grossing film of 1995. Pretty good. Clueless has since gone on to become one of the highest regarded films of the 90s. In fact, when I decided I needed a Troll break, I googled "90s movies" to look for an idea. Clueless was one of the first that popped up.
The movie started as a pilot for a TV series for Fox. They wanted Heckerling to write a teen comedy about the "in-crowd." Heckerling decided to do it, but only if she could make fun of it. Much like Wes Craven, slasher movies, and Scream at the same time era, Heckerling was sick of doing normal teen comedies. Nothing ended up happening with it at Fox and later, on the advice of a new agent for Heckerling, was turned into a feature film and was then picked up by Fox, who loved it. It was originally called "No Worries" and "I Was a Teenage Teenager" a title which I love. Eventually, Fox wanted Heckerling to rewrite the script with fewer featured female characters. She didn't, and it became the subject of a bidding war, which Paramount Pictures won. This was a better situation anyway, since Paramount typically caters to younger viewers, owning Nick and MTV.
CineFix has a great Seven Things You Probably Didn't Know video about Clueless. One that I like was Silverstone was cast because Heckerling was on a treadmill, watching MTV, and saw Silverstone in one of her Aerosmith music videos. Amazing. CineFix also has a Clueless Drinking Game video that Stacey Dash shows up for. Very entertaining.
Heckerling wrote the script as, basically, a modern update of Jane Austen's Emma. There are websites and YouTube videos that go into detail between the characters. Buzzfeed and As The Bunny Hops both do nice jobs of that.
The 1995 Pismo Beach Disaster took me by surprise. See, I have lived near Pismo since 1999, and even before that... my family had been taking vacations in this area since my mother was a little girl. So I was mystified, "wait what Pismo Beach disaster?" I had to look it up. It turns out that it was fake, but it fooled me for a second. Pismo Beach is a great town, btw. Great clam chowder. It's no wonder Bugs Bunny was always trying to go to Pismo Beach for vacations.
Make sure you take that LEFT turn at Albuquerque to enjoy a disaster-free Pismo Beach
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Silverstone is probably best known for Clueless, but she's had a very consistent, steady career since then. A couple of years later, she famously (infamously?) played Bat-Girl in Batman & Robin. Paul Rudd probably had the biggest career of anyone, with feature parts in a ton of comedies, such as Anchorman, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, a recurring character on Friends, and staring in Role Models. But of course, Paul Rudd is Ant-Man in the MCU, his biggest role yet. Brittney Murphy was well on her way to building up a great filmography, before her untimely death from Pneumonia on December 20, 2009. She was sadly only 32. But she was in some great movies. Drop Dead Gorgeous, the critically acclaimed Girl, Interrupted, 8 Mile, Sin City, Happy Feet, and was also doing the voice of Luanne Platter on King of the Hill. Speaking of King of the Hill, Breckin Meyer (the stoner skateboarder, Travis) was also on King of the Hill, providing the voice of Joseph Gribble. Of course, we can't forget Wallace Shawn, who's been in so many movies... but might best be remembered in the post-Clueless world as the voice of Rex in Toy Story, which also debuted in 1995. Elisa Donovan (Amber in Clueless) went on to do Morgan Cavanaugh in Sabrina and star in the Dog Who Saved Christmas trilogy. Dionne's boyfriend, Murray (Donald Faison) became famous as Turk on the show Scrubs. Lastly, I want to mention Julie Brown, who's a fine actress, but I recently saw her in a movie called "Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 In. Women" which was horrid. I'll probably do a review of it at some point. Just wanted to mention that.
I still can't get over how good all these people are in this movie. I've been watching too much Troll. Or maybe not enough Troll? I don't know anymore!
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I want to point out that the cinematographer for Clueless was Bill Pope, a legend in the cinematography world. Pope worked on Army of Darkness, the Matrix trilogy, Spider-Man 2 and 3, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Baby Driver, Shang Chi, and the upcoming third Ant-Man movie. He was also the visual visionary behind the videos Janet Jackson's "Nasty" and Metallica's "One" among other videos. Just a cool little thing.
I really loved the soundtrack to this film. I love 90s soundtracks, with tons of contemporary songs and old hits covered by younger bands. The Muffs and World Party covering "Kids in America" and "All The Young Dudes," respectively. We also had Radiohead with an acoustic "Fake Plastic Trees." Beastie Boys, Cracker, Counting Crows, Coolio ("Rollin' with My Homies") all contribute. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are actually in the movie, performing "Where'd You Go?" at the club scene where Paul Rudd and Tai dance. Great stuff, I want to track down a copy of the CD for my collection.
Now, I'm going to level a couple of criticisms towards this movie. Some of them are minor but one is very serious. First of all, the gay character... again, while he is presented as a positive, But there is a scene where Murray refers to him as a "cake boy" and "disco-dancing, Oscar Wilde-reading, Streisand ticket-holding friend of Dorothy." These aren't terrible slurs and are not meant to be insulting to the character, but it's still in bad taste. Also, the whole part where Cher and Ant-Man get into a relationship is... that's pretty uncomfortable. First, you have the brother/sister aspect, which isn't that bad, but still weird. They don't see each other as brother and sister, and they were only step-siblings for a short while, a long time ago. It is also another reference to Emma, where Emma gets with her sister's brother-in-law. But it's the age gap that bugs me. Now I could care less if an 18-year-old and 81-year-old get together. I wouldn't do that, but hey, whatever makes you happy, it's none of my business. However, the legal age of consent is 18. Cher is 16 and, while they don't say how old Paul Rudd is, he is in college and presented as being older. He's going to be probably 19 or 20. That's not okay. Even if they don't have sex, that's a path you don't want to walk down. And why isn't the dad livid about this? He even says at one point "You divorce wives, not children." So he still views Paul Rudd as his kid. So why isn't he flipping out? Why is everyone cool with this? No. Just no.
Not the most awkward situation Paul Rudd has found himself in
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I've seen some people online argue about how bad Dionne and Murray's relationship is, calling it "toxic" and putting the blame for that on Murray. Ehh... they fight, a lot, in the movie and they antagonize each other. But I wouldn't say that one side does it significantly more than the other. But they do show that Dionne and Murray do love each other, most of the fighting seems to almost be like a public performance for them. And I don't know... I know people that are like this and I would never be in that kind of relationship myself, but they seem to make it work if they can fight the right person to fight with. So I dunno. I hesitate to call it "toxic" but what do I know. I'm just a virgin who can't drive. (That statement is not 100% accurate).
One video I recommend watching is this one by The Take on YouTube. They talk about Cher's arguing style and how persuasive arguments relate to both the character of Cher and the plot. It's quick and entertaining and interesting.
After the movie became a hit, ABC opted to pick up Clueless as a sitcom, bringing it all back to TV. Heckerling was involved for part of the first season but eventually left. They only did one season on ABC, then another two on UPN, before being canceled altogether. Silverstone, Murphy, Rudd, and Cher's dad were all recast. The actors playing Dionne, her boyfriend, Amber, Miss Geist, and Wallace Shawn all returned for the show. The first season ratings were okay, it was part of ABC's TGIF lineup during the 1996-97 year. They did crossovers with Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Moesha. The ratings dropped from 97-99 on UPN. Maybe I'll watch this and review it someday. They've been trying to get a Clueless dramatic series going for the last couple of years on Peacock. In this version, Cher has gone missing and it's up to Dionne to take over the role of the school's most popular girl. Peacock dropped it but CBS is working on it now. Honestly, this sounds worse than the dramatic Fresh Prince of Belair reboot, Belair.
There have been plenty of other Clueless spinoff media. There was a series of young adult books based on the show. Twenty-one were published between 1995 and 1999. Marvel published a special photo magazine in 1997 called Spring Fever. But that wasn't the only Clueless comic. BOOM! Studios published a pair of Clueless graphic novels. Senior Year in 2017 and One Last Summer in 2018. They were co-written by Amber Benson, Tara from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Heckerling wrote Clueless: The Musical, which opened in NYC in 2018. There were two officially released Clueless PC games. Clueless CD-ROM came out in 1997 and was essentially a series of mini-games aimed at younger girls. Clueless: The Game was released in 2009, and is a dress-up game. Gotta love it when the spin-off games don't relate to the subtext of the movie. There was an edition of the 2009 "game" that was made for the Nintendo DS, but it was never officially released. Though ROMS have found their way into the hands of internet users.
I really liked this movie. Despite some slightly questionable dialogue and an ending that borders on lite incest and absolutely implies statutory rape. I still give it a high rating because the other 95% of the movie's runtime is very well done. Cher is very well-rounded and fleshed out. The performances are all top-notch. The story of self-discovery is excellent. And except for a small bit of dialogue, it's very progressive with its gay character. Overall, I highly recommend this funny and interesting film.
That's what I thought, anyway. Disagree? Are you a snob and a half who's totally buggin' over my review? Let me know! If you haven't seen it yet, JustWatch will tell you where to go to stream it. Again, I am in no way sponsored by JustWatch. As if! It's just the website I use personally so I use it for this!
The next review will be a little different, then we'll get back to Troll, I promise. It'll be on a 1970s documentary. Boring, right? Not at all. It's Gimme Shelter, the infamous documentary showing the Rolling Stones North American tour in 1969, ending with the disastrous Altamont Concert in California that saw four people die. So we'll be talking about that film and also about the event, filling in any gaps that the film left out. Until then!
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