Before the switch...

They were probably just trying to show you as much of each of the character's lives as possible before "the switch". I thought it was pretty cool, you get to see how different Bobby and Coleman are.

What I didn't understand was the random fade to black while Dinger's talking to himself in Joel's car. That was just stupid.

I think it also plays into the scene where she's dancing later and she doesn't remember the moves. I think it's supposed to show that she was a great dancer, and then after the switch, even though she has no recollection of being Gina, that she is partially Gina because she can't remember the dance moves.

"What is the point of all the weird editing? We go from Coleman yelling at the kids to stay off his lawn to some strange 15 second scene of Lainie dancing into something else random. It goes on like that until the "switch" and I just don't get what all this is supposed to be about...I LOVED this movie when I was a kid but I watched it again for the first time as an adult and now it just seems like a jumbled mess...if anyone has some insight on this strange but strangely enjoyable movie I would love to hear it"

^Thank you, I just saw this again after not seeing it in a decade and its weird stuff like this I'd largely forgotten. I think its also the director's way of being overly stylish for arts' sake.

'When there's no more room in Hollywood, remakes shall walk the Earth.'