This isn't the most quintessential 90's movie, or even a good movie, but the fever dream of Romeo+Juliet (1996) is the most 90's thing I've ever seen in my life.
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American Pie or My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
It's funny, at the time we probably would've said Reality Bites.
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Con Air is the most 90's movie that ever 90's its way through the 90's.
Gremlins 2. Not sure any other movie quote captures the absolute cocaine fuelled Hollywood of the early 90s.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x01l_jMhjVM
There's also a terrible John Leguizamo movie called The Pest, that I'm genuinely amazed didn't end his career right there. The wife was suprised I hadn't seen it, and as we started she just went "you're going to hate it".
She was not wrong.
See, that's cocaine fuelled Hollywood done right.
What the question is asking is "what's the most 90s movie of all time" and the answer can only be Kazaam, starring Shaquille O'Neil himself, and the Mars corporation products.
It's exactly as peak 90s as Space Jam without any of the charm or personality, which makes Kazaam precisely as soulless as that entire decade. It's perfect
Second post, but I realized the answer might actually be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze.
Late to the party: Scary Movie
Interesting that Point Break (1991) and The Matrix (1999) book ended the decade. Point Break focuses on white 20 something kids that dropped out and started surfing, the The Matrix focuses on a 30ish white guy going through an existential crisis. At the beginning of the 90s there was still some hope, that a person could find a small counter-culture and create if not a wealthy life, of something satisfying. By 1999 all hope was gone.
Point Break would be my pick too despite the fact the early 90s had many sensibilities that look more like the 1980s to us now.
The Big Lebowski
Great movie, but what makes it about the 90ies.
Main characters are mid-life Vietnam veterans, the movie made White Russians cool (probably more from the cult following it got in the 00s), also bowling alleys( and LA ;) had their heyday in the 90s
The super Mario bros. Movie
New answer: Clerks.
I'm saying Fern Gully.
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