Connie and Carla: Haven't seen a movie quite like this one in a while.

Connie and Carla is one of the more enjoyable movies i've seen in a long while. sure, The Matrix was overhyped, and so was Lord Of The Rings ... i think Connie and Carla manages to deviate from being completely predictable to such a point that it was delightfully surprising at every turn. You can see what's going to happen, but you can never predict exactly HOW it's going to happen.

it also had a very Romy and Michelle feel to it; two best friends taking a trip away from their every day, only to end up doing what they wanted to do every day ... be with each other, support each other, and show the world what they can do. Unlike Romy and Michelle, however, Connie and Carla manages to escape the corniness that Romy and Michelle had inherient in their cliche roles and turned out to be something better. Nobody believed in them when they were at the every day, and it wasn't until they were allowed to be free to do what they want that they really shined. i think a lot of time life is like that ... sometimes you can see something you can do, but it's so remote, but so good if you were to be able to accomplish it. unfortunately, circumstances around you inevitably become negative about it, and try to discourage you.

that is not to say there wasn't any corniness in Connie and Carla. I thought the ending was surpisingly NOT well done. It felt like the writing spent a lot of time constructing the little blocks up, higher and higher, but when the game ends, it just gets knocked down without a second thought. "we have to clean up now, so hurry up. stuff everything in this little box and be done with it." just like Romy and Michelle , the ending was as satisfactory as "... and then they lived happily ever after."

all in all, it was a much better movie than Dodgeball, though was an okay story, was foiled by being overladen with crude humour, which, unlike Not Another Teen Movie, hampered the story progression rather than advance it.