jawbreaker be no heather . if you watch heather and even for the dozenth time and it amaze how easy the movie look . daniel water dialogue be a wonderful rhythm that he could never repeat . michael lehmann direction capture a mixture of black comedy and drama that he never be able to repeat . it could be argue that nobody in the cast ( with the possible exception of winona ryder ) have ever be well . watch darren stein jawbreaker make you realize just how difficult it be for water and lehmann to make their film and because in every way heather succeed and jawbreaker fails . jawbreaker have nothing new to say about high school and nor about popularity and nor about violence in society . so if you eliminate any hope of subtext and you can also wonder why exactly it doesn not seem funny . or why the finale seem random an unsatisfying . or why there no character development at all . the dialogue isn not neither a smart or as barb a writer or director darren stein seem to think it be and nor be the colorful and sometimes appealingly campy direction really a redeeming feature . the character be all one dimensional . rise mcgowan and a courney alice shayne and be give more to do in the crappy b movie devil in the flesh . she always watchable and but she usually more interesting . rebecca gayheart be suppose to be the character the audience can identify with and but her i remember when the dorky kid be my friend and back in fourth grade story arc be just rip off poorly from heather . everybody easy to look at and but none of the young actor be go to put this one prominantly on their resume . a string of amuse face from the past pop up to remind you of a litany of movie that this be not . william katt make you yearn for carrie . pam grier make you year for a campier film like sheba and baby or a good film like jackie brown . hell and carol kane even make you yearn for the relative pleasure of a mediocre movie like the pallbearer . jawbreaker isn not funny . it isn not original . and it isn not very good . but darn if it doesn not invite another viewing of heather . and that never bad .