Razzles: this is probably the most prominent Razzles appearance, unless the 80s.
For 2000s fake fashion-magazine plots, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is the bigger magazine rom-com and would be the apex; Eva Mendes in Hitch and Kate Hudson are the biggest such roles.
Madonna's Crazy for You: the answer is no, since it was already big from Vision Quest; Thriller is obviously mid-80s.
Sam Ball, who played Alex Carlson, has multiple IMDb names, a red flag; "I hope to never see him again."
Post-9/11 feel-good New York movies: this is in the running, but Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 (and 25th Hour) are up there.
Judy Greer: no; Descendants is a better performance, and she is a reliable second banana.
Rom-com characters cruelly breaking up a wedding: My Best Friend's Wedding, A Lot Like Love or this; it has to be Julia Roberts.
Vienna reached Apex Mountain here, completely rejuvenated and finally getting its acclaim after 27 years; agreed.
Rom-com bitches are loved: mean but never catastrophically so, watered-down versions of people everyone knows; Lucy is one.
Sigourney Weaver in Working Girl is an example; Judy Greer is unassailable and makes this a better movie.
Lucy is Jenna's Darth Vader, pulling her to the Six Chicks from the 13th birthday party.
A tangent asks whether Jenna Rink would have had a bat mitzvah and is Jewish, with Kathy Baker recalled from Picket Fences and Street Smart, and a Jewish-themed pilot with Adam Friedland still only in text messages.
Jennifer Garner's hairstyles, including chopsticks in the hair, track the character's evolution and add a feminine touch.
The big party where the Six Chicks show up is a first pick; school cliques like an "A squad" at Bronx High School of Science and college "BPs" are recalled.
Jenna being mean to Beaver hurts, and seven minutes in heaven is joked to be banned in 50 states in 2026.
Tom Tom becoming Judy Greer is called one of the best teen-to-adult castings; Greer reportedly disagrees, and young Jenna reads as Hilary Swank to one participant, which is disputed.
Jenna waking up at 30 (cell phone, checking her body, the hockey player, "I'm Jenna Rink, big-time magazine editor") is great, a mission statement for Garner recalling Hanks in Big.
Visiting Matt requires suspension of disbelief since he doesn't react as if she were on drugs.
The dress-up montage uses Whitney Houston; Lips Like Sugar by Echo and the Bunnymen was reportedly planned but could not be licensed.
Jenna saving the party with Thriller is an iconic rom-com scene; the green modified Versace dress became a yearly Halloween costume, though her dancing starts stiff and Ruffalo drags his foot while the Gollum actor bangs it out.
Asked by name whether Michael Jackson's baggage complicates the scene now, the reply is no; the surprise is that everyone at a 2004 party knew the whole dance.
Wesley Morris wrote that watching the cast dance like ghouls made him cringe: "the amateurness isn't cute, it's scary."
It recalls bar mitzvahs and the Cha-Cha Slide; Arlene the secretary joining is a favorite moment.
The Liz Phair montage with Razzles and the Brooklyn Bridge, and Love Is a Battlefield with the nice Six Chicks, are included; one more scene of Jenna advising the 13-year-olds is wanted.
Jenna's class-of-2004 pitch is rewatchable as probably the worst publishing idea of all time, while Lucy's heroin-chic idea sounds pretty good.
Jenna and Lucy having it out, with Judy Greer lights out, is the last pick; the wedding scene is excluded and Vienna is saved for later.
The other pick is the first scene waking up in the apartment: the umbrella gag, the physical comedy, and the slip with the jacket as the defining look.
Both agree the first 25 minutes, from the closet until she gets to work, are excellent.
