I watched this on DVD last night with my wife. I had selected it based almost solely on the high IMDb rating. Within 5 minutes I had to turn on the DVD sub-titles just to have a chance at following the dialog.
Almost everyone in the movie delivers extremely pretentious lines, about as fast as humanly possible, throwing in jargon that I've never heard before at least once per scene. In several cases, I had to pause the DVD and read the sub-titles just to know what words were being spoken. Reading it 2 or 3 times would sometimes make the meaning clear, but often not. (I still don't know what a "yegg" is.)
If there's one high school kid in a city that talks like this it might be believable. This movie has about 10 of them. I can only think of a couple characters (the Pin and the jock) who had even remotely believable dialog. There are some very clever lines that actually work, but in most scenes it seems like everyone's just trying way too hard to be clever, and it ends up sounding ridiculous.
If you're thinking of watching this, read through the "Memorable Quotes" section here in IMDb. If you love the dialog, you'll probably love this movie (and vice versa). My wife thought this was the worst movie she'd ever seen. I actually enjoyed the story and the characters, but the bizarre dialog was a huge detraction for me.
Almost everyone in the movie delivers extremely pretentious lines, about as fast as humanly possible, throwing in jargon that I've never heard before at least once per scene. In several cases, I had to pause the DVD and read the sub-titles just to know what words were being spoken. Reading it 2 or 3 times would sometimes make the meaning clear, but often not. (I still don't know what a "yegg" is.)
If there's one high school kid in a city that talks like this it might be believable. This movie has about 10 of them. I can only think of a couple characters (the Pin and the jock) who had even remotely believable dialog. There are some very clever lines that actually work, but in most scenes it seems like everyone's just trying way too hard to be clever, and it ends up sounding ridiculous.
If you're thinking of watching this, read through the "Memorable Quotes" section here in IMDb. If you love the dialog, you'll probably love this movie (and vice versa). My wife thought this was the worst movie she'd ever seen. I actually enjoyed the story and the characters, but the bizarre dialog was a huge detraction for me.