"I can't relate to 99% of humanity."
If you've never felt this way, then this probably isn't the movie for you. Thora Birch's Enid is spiteful of everyone she encounters except her small group of close friends. Scarlett Johansson's Rebecca at first seems just as cynical towards the world, but really she just seems to go with the flow and in the beginning she is only around Enid. As Rebecca gets a job and apartment, Enid moves on to Steve Buscemi's Seymour to seemingly leech off of and the two friends grow apart. Writing this out, it makes it seem like the movie is a big downer, and it is, but just not in that way.
What I really like…

I've been meaning to watch this film for years. Hmmm, perhaps I waited too long? I mean, I guess it was good for it's time? It was certainly the progenitor of such nerd-centric teen comedies as Juno (2007) or Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010). But it lacks the wit or snappy dialogue of either.

Although that's not to say there aren't things to enjoy here. Thora Birch plays Enid an aching-hip self-reflective nerd stuck in a town of squares who just "don't get it". She ultimately becomes drawn to lonely record collector Seymour (Steve Buscemi) because 'He's the exact opposite of all the things I hate'. It's fair to say that Enid strongly reminds me of myself as an…

I knew far too many teenage girls like Enid. They were always closeted about their own interests because what we saw on the outside was the fact that they were always so cold and bitter about their place in life. They come from the supposed "ghost world," and to everyone else they're just invisible. I read Daniel Clowes's comic during my own early high school years and something about Enid's personality struck me as something that rang a tad too familiar. My own high school years have oftentimes left me within a state of disconnect from everything else that was happening around me, because I was always seen as the introverted freak who took no interest in most of what…

Let me first preface that it is refreshing to see a smart teen comedy. I thought for a very long time the best teen comedies spring from Juno. I correct myself and now state that Ghost World is one of the greatest teen comedies of all time. And I mean there is not that much competition. Scott Pilgrim Vs The World and Juno stand among the best and other than that, there are hardly any others that can be called on the level of Ghost World. Ghost World took me two watches to understand what it all meant. Underneath its quirky story and teenage angst showcasing Johansson’s pessimistic attitude followed by Birch’s witty and angst-y attitude, is a story about…