Product Description

This latest fabulous movie from Jamie (But I m a Cheerleader) Babbit is a dynamic, romantic, frequently funny and politically astute movie with a smart script, rockin soundtrack and terrific ensemble cast that includes sexy young Melonie Diaz as the new dyke on the block who falls in with a great gang of Feminist troublemakers called Clits in Action (CiA), and then falls in love with leader of the pack, Nicole Vicius. Unfortunately, Nicole has a girlfriend Melanie Mayron and, as they say, drama ensues. With Carly Pope, Daniela Sea, Guinevere Turner, Deak Eugenikos, Jenny Shimizu and Lauren Mollica.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19149 in DVD
• Brand: WOLFE VIDEO
• Released on: 2008-09-02
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 87 minutes

Features

• This latest fabulous movie from Jamie (But I m a Cheerleader) Babbit is a dynamic, romantic, frequently funny and politically astute movie with a smart script, rockin soundtrack and terrific ensemble cast that includes sexy young Melonie Diaz as the new dyke on the block who falls in with a great gang of Feminist troublemakers called Clits in Action (CiA), and then falls in love with leader of the

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Itty Bitty Titty Committee, the third film from Jamie Babbit, director of the 1999 cult comedy But I'm a Cheerleader, focuses on a group of radical young feminists experiencing both political and sexual awakenings. With a riot-grrrl heavy soundtrack (there's so much Kathleen Hannah she should be listed in the credits) and an unabashed message about the degradation of women in the media, Itty Bitty Titty Committee strives to be a very powerful and moving film. It doesn't quite make it. Despite the somewhat lackluster plot, the cast has a great time with the material and clearly enjoy these characters. Standouts are Dirt's Carly Pope, as the "leader" of the group complete with '70s era Gloria Steinem glasses, and especially Melonie Diaz (Be Kind Rewind and Hamlet 2) as Anna, a young lesbian whose life is most altered by the Guerrilla Girls-style group. Overall the message is just a little too heavy-handed and the climax too silly to really make you feel inspired, but the movie does succeed as a fun and sexy coming-of-age story. --Kira Canny

Review
WINNER- South by Southwest Jury Award - Best Narrative Feature
Official Selection: Berlin Film Festival
...an infectiously enthusiastic romp -Lee Marshall, Screen Daily
"Itty Bitty is a crazy, funny, foul-mouthed, crowd-pleasing winner one of the most enjoyable films to come out of the festival circuit in some time." -Danielle Riendeau, afterellen.com
Jamie Babbit s follow-up to But I m a Cheerleader is smarter, funnier and more accomplished than its predecessor. -Ernest Hardy, LA WEEKLY
With cartoonish playfulness, Itty Bitty Titty Committee updates riot grrrl culture and breathes new cool into feminism.-Jessica Stites, ADVOCATE --imdb

Customer Reviews

Daniela Sea steals the show!
I am so excited to finally own this film. I just ordered it am so excited...Daniela Sea is so pretty and really good in her "brad pitt" role that she steals the show (Well, maybe not the whole show). This is the most fun I have had at a movie in a really long time. This film is filled with fun gags and sexy girls, what more do you need? OK maybe a great story? Well it has that too.....Run, don't walk to get Itty Bitty...
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5 STARS! Rise against the system!
In this coming of age story, a young lesbian learns how to rise against the system and defy everything she's learned about what it means to be a woman.

Who best to create a movie about women than a female director? Jamie Babbit, who has worked on "Alias," "The L Word" and "Nip/Tuck," helps the audience see America for the male-dominated society that it is. If SLC Punk! were to meet If These Walls Could Talk 2, the end result would be Itty Bitty Titty Committee. Don't let the star characters' small breasts fool you. Their balls are enormous!

Self-Serious, Unsophisticated, Ineffective
To quote Leslie Felperin's review in Variety, "Great title, shame about the movie."

Actually, the title is only tangentially related to the film. Secondly, the tagline for this movie ("Every generation needs a new revolution") sums up its painfully unaware self-importance.

Not only was the acting shameful, but the dialogue writing was atrocious. It was clear that no editor had been over the script, which can alleviate some of the concerns over acting, but also--even when there are bad lines, you can TELL when someone couldn't deliver them even if they were good. Example: Carly Pope. She is awful. She's especially cringe-worthy when we get glimpses into her non-crusty self, because the actress only knows how to yell or be mean. The scene at the marriage rally in Sacramento, and pseudo-playful lines like, "Jesus, you dykes are such closed-minded b****es," are a) just Godawful, b) could have worked much better if edited or recited better. Trimming it to, "Jesus, you're so closed-minded" or "Stop being a closed-minded dyke!" would have been funnier, and saying it flippantly (in a way Pope likely is incapable of doing) would have vastly improved it. Also, cursing a lot does not make up for talent deficiencies.

Furthermore, there is a lack of likable characters.

Anna is whiney, immature, and her "growth" seems to consist of becoming the epitome of why the mass populace hates feminists / queer activists. She becomes inconsiderate of her family and co-workers, hostile without provocation, and seems to think that self-confidence and self-esteem involve spray-painting her room (in her parents' home) with words like "cock," ignoring customers, snapping at people around her, and storming out of work while demanding, in a presumptuous and volatile manner, that others cover for her. Unlike Megan from But I'm a Cheerleader, who showed personality, dignity, and composure and truly found a grounded sense of self through evolution viewers could directly watch on-screen, Anna shows stagnation, clinginess, and juvenile irresponsibility in her life, throughout the film. It's difficult, then, to see her attractiveness.

The whole film should have been centred around Aggie, one of very few characters I could feel sympathy towards. His role was extremely minor, but he proved to be the only decent human being with sensitivity in the film--he is a great face for the activist movement, contrasting totally with the other whiney, overly aggressive, stand-offish "representatives" for the cause.

While we're on the topic of radicalism, let's talk MONOGAMY, which was a theme that the director/writers seemed to overlook. While fighting marriage, boob jobs, and the other ever-present symbols of patriarchy, they failed to include monogamy in this category. Sadie, the only truly polyamorous character, is continually faulted for her inability to leave a long-term older (and more mainstream) girlfriend, Courtney, in order to commit to her monthly flings. Both Meat and Anna are crushed when she refuses to devote her romantic life exclusively to either of them, and Anna is rebuked for a brief fling with another of the C(i)A members. Paralleling the rest of the film, the director/writers show obliviousness on this issue, much like they show blindness to the clichés of the film by neglecting parody and satire.

Also, the deadpan, hackneyed Smith and Sarah Lawrence references fall completely flat. If you're going to bring up gigantic stereotypes, you've got to have humour to back it up, or show some recognition of how ridiculous it is that you're including the stereotype. There should be some irony and self-conscious snarkiness.

Lacking any of the self-deprecating, self-referential humour that made But I'm a Cheerleader so brilliant and spot-on, IBTC also fails in emotional integrity and complexity, and even sensitivity and exploration. Two-dimensional and sermonising, IBTC is a horrible way to expose non-activists to activism. It is awful misrepresentation. It's just utterly false and trite and caught up in the superficial, stereotyped aspects of radicalism.