daoldiges Growing up in the 80's I'm not sure how I missed this film, but when I saw the cast or Parker, Hunt, and Doherty, along with the promise of a great soundtrack I was definitely curious to check it out recently. There is a fun and positive overall energy to the production that I enjoyed and appreciated. However, the script is so predictable and poorly written that nothing can really save it. The direction is also weak and despite all the good energy, much of the acting is pretty bad as well.

ComedyFan2010 I watched this movie because I found the DVD on sale. I never heard about the movie and seeing Helen Hunt, Sarah Jessica Parket and Shannon Doherty on the cover made me curious. I find it ironic: this three actresses owe it to the the movie that they became famous (this were the first leading roles for both SJP and Helen Hunt) and now this movie owes it to them that people still want to see it.The movie is simply bad. Really bad. Very unexciting, predictable, acting and lines make one cringe sometimes, plot that we saw 100 times and very shallow characters.Let's look at it:There is this shy, good girl Janey whose dream is to dance. To get to this dream she has to overcome obstacles like her very strict dad who didn't realize that his daughter isn't 7 anymore and a concurrence which is a spoiled, rich girl Natalie. All this time she has her friend on her side: Lynne, who was described on the DVD cover as a "cool rock chick". seriously? This is what teens in 80's saw as a "cool rock chick"? She came over more like a little preppy brat who thought that wearing a fun hat would make her a "cool rock chick". And then there is of course a "bad boy". Well, he is a bad boy because he wears a tank top....Horrible, just horrible. The only thing good about it are the fun clothes. And to see the actresses when they were young. Sarah Jessica Parker was pretty cute in it, can't say much against her. Helen Hunt has certainly improved in acting since then, I didn't just dislike her character but also the way she acted. I am also amazed by the fact that her looks never changed, she looks now the same as she did when she was 22. Pretty cool for her! Shannon Doherty wasn't much on screen, good for her.But yes, I can't imagine how people can like this movie u unless they are 10 year old girls or were 10 year old girls when this movie came out and want to be a little nostalgic. If you aren't in any of these groups, don't bother.

annevejb There are a lot of very affordable 4x3 versions of this around in the UK and when I first got it I was amazed and impressed and played it a lot, a lot because of Shannen at age 12. Just the politics got it to start to feel gritty. Now I have discovered how massive an improvement the wide screen version of Poison Ivy 2 is compared to the 4x3 and Girls JWTHF was one of the obvious other features to wonder about. Turns out that while my widescreen is 4 minutes longer, it covers the same content, as if it is the same thing played at a slightly different speed. There is no additional footage to change its feel. The dance, some of the feel is not the same. Wide helps it to have more structure. The big thing is viewability. Just now the grit has gone, for a while. I have rewatched it and liked it almost as much as I did at first. * My main interest in this recently is as a link between Grease and Heathers, leading to Clueless and lots of other stuff. Grease is incomparable, but I am trying to expand on it by getting to know the two Hairspray. The trigger for that was High School Musical, the concert. Heathers as massive wow, but it used to have difficulties for me. Solve that there are the difficulties in Girls JWTHF to try to untangle. This new widescreen version has helped me a lot by getting things to a starting point, what I really need is not to get sunk by my understanding of this story.

jniles-1 Hi....I just signed up b/c I have been a fan of this movie since I was like 7 and have been re-watching it again, and it provoked me to do some researching....but having no luck....wondered if anyone can tell me how I can find the soundtrack? It says in the credits that it is available by Mercury Records, but this was in 1984! I've made the mistake of probably signing myself up for three or four diff. music download things, none of which found any of the songs, and they really can lift me up when I hear them b/c they remind me of the movie...Amazon pulls up nothing either...anyone know how I might do this? I LOVE THIS MOVIE!