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The New York Times ' Janet Maslin concurs, calling the romance "papier-mache."
Some critics complain that "for all the crinkle and lilt" of the dialogue and the top-notch ensemble cast, the film "sags in the middle" (Stanley Kauffman, the New Republic ). Maslin warns that the film is "a collection of sea changes and splendidly realized small moments rather than a story of overarching action."
The New York Times ' Maslin says that Mira Sorvino ( Mighty Aphrodite ) and Lisa Kudrow ( Friends ), in their roles as bimbettes avenging the wrongs of high school, "elevat[e] bubble-headedness to new levels of comic ingenuity."
American critics concur with the French enthusiasm: Maslin calls it a "beautifully acted drama, as raw and immediate as it is heartfelt" (the New York Times ), and Stanley Kauffmann calls it "completely absorbing, almost rudely poignant" (the New Republic ). (For a biography, filmography, and news on Bouchez, click here.)
Most critics like this "surprisingly genial and affecting comedy about the trials and tribulations of teenage rebellion during the Reagan '80s" (Jami Bernard, Daily News ). The title refers to two Salt Lake City punks whose tentative attempts at rebellion are more funny and halfhearted than seriously anarchistic: It's "an absurdist coming-of-age comedy" that's "better defined by its polish than by punk trappings" (Maslin, New York Times ). Some are not impressed with the film's watered down rebellion: "[T]his energetic but poorly structured, rather self-congratulatory look at spike-haired rebelliousness in mid-'80s Utah could strike unbiased viewers as more grating than gratifying," and the film "doesn't quite grasp how its slick, flashy package undermines any actual punk cred" it might have (Dennis Harvey, Variety ). (Brush up on your own punk cred by seeing how many of these bands you know.)
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