The Movie
Mean Girls is a surprisingly good and often hilarious take on high school life. While other high school comedies are a bog of clichéd stereotypes, Mean Girls takes those same stereotypes and plays them off as extreme parodies to make its point.Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is the new girl in town. Having just moved from Africa, where her parents helped out local tribes, she has been thrust into the life of public schooling. She’s never attended public school and has no idea about the world that awaits her.Cady soon finds herself making friends with Janice and Damian. When she is invited to sit with the most popular girls in school, “The Plastics,” at lunch, Janice encourages it. She wants to get all the dirt she can on the queens of the school.“The Plastics” are made up of Regina George (Rachel McAdams), Gretchen Wieners (Lacey Chabert), and Karen Smith (Amanda Seyfried). They are the most popular and sought after girls in school. Regina rules the school, and her clique, with an iron fist. “The Plastics” are only allowed to wear certain clothes and colors on certain days of the week. Cady soon finds herself neck deep in the world of teenage hotties.There’s so much to be worried about — boys, cars, shopping, dances, popularity, body shapes, and secrets — that there’s hardly enough time to do anything else. As Cady begins to slip slowly into the plastic world, Janice and Damian wonder if she’s beginning to like it.Mean Girls is full of some great performances. Tim Meadows gives a terrific, understated performance as the school principal. Tina Fey essentially plays a slightly nicer Liz Lemon here. Lindsay Lohan is great as the lead, and we can only hope she can find her way back to giving performances like this again.Mean Girls is a wickedly sarcastic look at high school. Sure it’s packed full of every single stereotype you can find in your average high school movie, but its genius comes in how it uses those them. This isn’t your normal, run-of-the-mill high school movie, and you’ll love it for that.Quality
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