John Brooks The Breakfast Club meets American Beauty ? Something like that.This film has the makeup of the first with all the realism and implicit social commentary of the other, while maintaining a quality close to both.First of all, Reese Witherspoon does an absolutely monumental job here. Her acting gets right down to the smaller details, and despite her role being a very demanding one, she absolutely excels and delivers the most amazing performance, depicting every itchy inch of her obsessive character's personality and shedding a ton of light to the film on the whole.The film is great in how it tells a main story, then develops subplots that actually matter and aren't filler, and then can be consistently funny while developing all that. It's the sort of 'funny' that is realistic, pays attention to annoying details and the thick imperfections in particular profiles of people, all with a twist of fictitious grotesque that isn't though over-the-top.All in all, it paints an accurate portrait of late 90's America, with some of its social issues (sexual/relationship questions, carelessness and irresponsibility of our modern time in adults...), and it definitely delivers a strong moral at the end of it: he who works hardest wins in the end, but wins what (is it worth it) ?8-8.5/10.

bcheng93 whew....finally i've watched a movie where there is not one main character that i wanted to root for, just like this years election. everybodies got an agenda, everybody is out for themselves...except jock chris klein...but i wouldn't root for him either. plenty of laughs in this movie and you will not guess when they're coming...it just sort of comes..the funny scenes and you'll just laugh or giggle. this is a comedy for intelligent adults...not everybody will get it or like this movie although it is a brilliant one. this has to be witherspoons best performance or in the top 3 in her long career. let me just say that her freeze frame expressions are priceless...there's like 4 or 5 of them and miss witherspoon herself will have a hoot looking back at them. very very intelligent and cynical and just down right nasty business...the election that is...even in high school...one can imagine how bad it can get in the real presidential elections.

mmx a must watch before each political election, especially this year... Tracy flick represents every lying, over-achiever-sociopath, who are often presented to the society as a successful person. so if you hate overly ambitious people without any moral compass(which is pretty much most of them ha ha), than this movie is sooo for you. it also makes fun of the election process as a whole, so this movie is totally dedicated to this year's presidential election in the US. the trailer and the picture art however send a totally wrong vibe about this gem. it's a very thought provoking dark comedy about the society and how pathetic most of it really is. can be watched over and over probably even 20 years from now.

Irishchatter With all the sex scene's,jokes and references, I thought this film was pretty funny. Reese Witherspoon was like so talented as an excitable Secondary School student who just wants to achieve in what she believes in! Even Matthew Broderick was awesome with his role! He really is like your typical teacher who would look out for you, unless you annoy him from being a show off at class like Tracy Flick lol. No but really I think he would be a good teacher, I wouldn't mind it actually! It would've made my school years better!I swear I fell in love with the character Paul on this movie, I just wanna cuddle him! He looks out for everyone and doesn't have anything bad to say, he is just positive. Man, I wish we all were like that with our attitudes as humans! Chris Klein was excellent for his first start in a film!Now with Tammy, I would call her someone who you wouldn't wanna mess with because seriously that girl can get away with it! I'm glad she finally got a girlfriend since it was tough that her ex was with her brother! I wonder if they are ever gonna find her lop! Anyways it's a really enjoyable and watchable movie but I wouldn't call it the best nor favourites of mine!