Jawbreaker: 20th Anniversary [Blu Ray]

Such a good movie must watch

One of my favorite movies

This movie is a classic and is one of Rose McGowan's best performances. Even if you don't care for teen movies, you'll like this one. It is a dying breed of movies for sure. The "clique" of the most adored and hated high school girls are made up of 4 bombshells with Rose being the Mastermind of the group. As a Birthday prank, they plot to kidnap the nicest of the group and stuff her full of pancakes and tie her to the football goal. Everything goes awry when Rose gags her with a "Jawbreaker" and stuffs her in the trunk. She chokes and dies. The 3 remaining gals plot a cover-up until class nerd, Fern Mayo, catches the 3 in their scheme. To bribe Fern into not telling, they transform her into one of the "Plastics" of their clique. Fern's newfound popularity thickens the mess and then girl revenge takes over. All is exposed in an all out girl war with no holds barred that will keep you laughing and in suspense. A great Movie destined to become a cult classic.

One of my childhood or should I say teenage favorite movies still is to this day. I don’t care what age you are. You should absolutely watch this movie at least once in your life because you definitely will not regret it!

I ordered Jawbreaker on Blu-Ray to upgrade my DVD copy (which, aside from being standard definition, was also only available in full screen format). I cannot emphasize how fantastic the movie looks in HD. The use of color really pops, and having just upgraded TVs myself, I was amazed at just how clear and beautiful everything looked. I decided to pay the premium for the 20th anniversary edition (currently $10 more than the standard blu-ray) due to the new actors commentary with Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz, and Judy Greer alongside Darren Stein. If that doesn't sound interesting to you, I would stick with the cheaper, standard blu-ray as aside from that, I'm pretty sure they are exactly the same. I don't regret my choice, as I loved hearing the cast talk about the making of the movie, but it is disappointing that Sony, or whoever was in charge of the blu-ray release, couldn't think of any other features to add. Even the Amazon preview page has a behind the scenes video that's not on the actual release itself! One of the best things about blu-rays is the pop-up menus where you don't have to even exit out of the movie to change the settings or go to a different scene. The blu-ray has the pop-up menu, but there are no scene selections! Of course you can skip to different scenes, but there's no option on the pop-up, or main menu, to jump to a specific scene. I had to keep skipping around as I was looking for a specific part when I first got it. Even the DVD copy has a scene selection menu. This seems to show how little thought was put into this release from Sony's side, and aside from making the commentary, I can't believe there's nothing new on this supposed 20th anniversary issue. It would be different if the original release had gone out of print, but it's in stock right now for $12.99. Like I said, I don't regret my order and I did know what I was ordering (aside from the lack of scene selections), but I just feel like this cult classic deserves better. Still, if you don't have this film on blu-ray, I don't think you'll regret buying it. I'm really happy to have it in my collection and the film itself looks FANTASTIC, but if you don't plan on watching it with the actor's commentary, I wouldn't pay a premium for this new issue. (I should note the original release does have it's own commentary with just Darren Stein which is also included here.)

Jawbreaker has cult classic written all over it. It did poorly with critics, gets a 5.x rating on imdb (I swear, all the coolest, and polarizing, cult films fall into this rating), yet has style and attitude for miles. It's a dark comedy with horror elements. This is maybe my favorite Rose McGowan performance. She is stellar, as are the other girls in her clique. But she kind of steals the show. Rebecca Gayheart does look super foxy in a leather skirt. "Mean girl" Courtney and her cohorts abduct one of their own, on her birthday, and throw her in the trunk. Problem is, Courtney popped a jawbreaker in her mouth, duct taped her mouth shut, and it KILLS her! What an awesome soundtrack. Primarily grrrl power alt rock and roll. Veruca Salt plays over the opening credits! And the freaking DONNAS appear in this! Back when they were still the "Donnas". They are young and gawky! They lip sync two songs (kind of poorly) at the high school prom. I would've gone to mine if The Donnas appeared!

Exactly as described

There was diversity; they did NOT tokenize Tatyana Ali! There were meaningful cinematography and edits! I did kinda hate the occasional side wipe and diagonal fade BUT The end of the movie is something that you see a lot in television and films nowadays to communicate absolute chaos. Lastly, they did not put down feminine women! There's a lot of "pick me's" in female-centralized coming-of-age stories and they allowed the girls to wear skirts while maintaining a personality. It also kind of has a small commentary on white fragility but, y'all ain't ready for that interpretation. PS - There were some awkward moments with acting and scripting BUT the significance of the characters and their symbolism was enough for me to call this a misunderstood film. It was three years after The Craft so, of course, it couldn't fulfill all critics of 1999. Overall, it's still a great story about the pressures of feminity as a girl can lead to a girl uninterrupted.

買おうか迷いつつ、やっぱりいつでも観れる様にと購入しました！20年程前に見た映画でしたが、主人公の悪い感じがかわいくて、ファッションを真似したりしていました。今は高校生の娘たちに見てもらいたいです^o^

Arrivée en retard mais bien arrivé reste plus qu à le visionner

Excelente calidad del disco bluray

Ein absolut genialer TeenieTrashfilm aus den guten 90er Jahren. Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheat, Julie Benz sowie Pam Gier, Carol Kane und Chad Christ in absoluter künstlerischer Höchstform! Das Leben ist Ernst genug!

Excellement joue la prestatrion de rose Mc gowan est superbe. Julie Benz et Rebecca Gayheart sont elles aussi sublime. Ce film est excellent