It's interesting to note that Mean Girls used to be a lot more mean. In order to avoid an R rating, a number of the, well, meaner lines were cut or replaced. For example, "pop your cherry" becomes "butter your muffin" (a cryptic phrase that I don't think anyone actually understood); "masturbated with a hot dog" becomes "made out with a hot dog" (how exactly is that supposed to work?); along with the standby curse replacements. But with the heavy dose of "slut," "whore," "bitch," and "dyke," the actual effect of what changes were made is questionable at best.
A double fish-out-of-water story (Cady is from Africa, so she knows nothing about modern American culture; but she is also a normal girl masquerading as a mean girl to bring down their tribe), Mean Girls just knows what it's doing. Watch for some classic sequences in which Cady visualizes the teen world in terms of something with which she's familiar — jungle law. Oh yeah, and somebody gets hit by a bus.
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1 - Eric Olsen
Thanks Doug, not sure how I missed this when you first put it up.