Mean Girls DVD

Advantages: Extremely funny, very true to life and featuring a great cast
Disadvantages: Makes you realise how mean us girls can really be! (not me obv...)

...to the world of the Mean Girls and finds herself becoming increasingly one of them. After she fall for Regina's ex-boyfriend, Aaron, the girls declare war in the back-stabbing, no-holds-barred way that only teenage girls can, drawing the entire female population of the school in to their battle. Yes, that's right people, there's gonna be a girl fight… CAST (MAIN CHARACTERS)- - LINDSAY LOHAN, the twenty year old infamous actress and star of 'The ...
...superb comedy, without mentioning the Mean Girl herself - Regina George. Regina is not just a gem in her own right, with her saccharine sweet bitchiness and brainless enforcing of rules such as wearing pink on a Wednesday and only wearing your hair up once a week, but her comic greatness extends to her bizarre white trash family, which includes a clueless mother who is desperate to cling on to her youth at all costs and a little sister who overtly ... Read review

Advantages: A more realistic view of high school life
Disadvantages: We don't see enough of the ordinary people

...new girl to queen of mean is a believable one because it is incremental. Though she may start hanging around with the head bitches so she can plot their downfall with her social outcast friends, it easy to understand how she could be sucked into their way of life. Her language and clothes reflect her transformation. She starts out speaking standard American English, which is soon peppered with meaningless teen-speak, (calling everyone “bee-yatch” ...
...also switches from wearing jeans and shirts to barely there mini skirts and make-up by the trowel-full. Her character’s narration illustrates how her viewpoint changes. When we first see her in social situations, she comments on them in voice-over as David Attenborough might, and we see them acting as African animals. By the near-end of the film she is reduced to commenting on how people fit the Plastics’ physical ideal. As she’s the lead and is ... Read review

Advantages: Funny, great performance from Lindsay Lohan, great writing from Tina Fey, better than most teen movies out recently, slightly darker comedy,
Disadvantages: Quite formulaic, predictable.

Oh no not another Lindsay Lohan movie. Well yes I’m afraid so! On my last trip to the states I dragged my friends Molly and Laney to see “Mean Girls”, a movie I absolutely couldn’t wait to see. Lindsay is most associated with tween movies but this was actually a teen movie, well done to Lindsay for successfully making the transition. In the past few years there have been plenty of teen movies out there but they’ve either been too serious, or just ...
...when it comes to fun teen movies. It shared a similar tone to “Bring it on” and “Clueless” which is most definitely a good thing considering they are my favourite teen movies. I was also glad to see a good cast, as that’s the one thing movies of this kind lack. I didn’t expect “Mean Girls” to get good reviews, hell I didn’t even expect it to get a lukewarm reception, but I was wrong as usual. “Mean girls” was a hit with critics. Shock horror. Thanks ... Read review

Advantages: Funny, Very Similar to the normal HighSchool.
Disadvantages: Shows how Cliques seem to be taking over

Cady Heron is the new girl at school. She has moved from Africa, and has been home-schooled all her life. Cady is smart, pretty and somewhat of a grown up. Cady finds friends in the form of Janis and Damian - two students who aren't part of a clique and are classed as outcasts. Damian and Janis give Cady a quick guide to the way the school works, who's who and whats what. This is when 'The Plastics' are introduced - Regina George, Gretchen Weener ...
...as the Queen Bee of the school. Every girl wants to be Regina and every guy whats to have Regina, that is everyone apart from Janis and Damian. During an attempt to fight her way through the well organised Canteen, Cady is invited to sit with the Plastics. Cady is then asked if she would like to sit with the Plastics all week, and basically become part of their Clique. After Cady tells Damian and Janis, they decide to use this as a way for Janis ... Read review

Advantages: Sharp, satirical and silly
Disadvantages: A little too lightweight for some

...never been to school before. Mean Girls tells the story of Cady (pronounced like Katie) who after a childhood being home schooled in Africa, enters the school system for the first time at an over ripe seventeen. Cady, clueless at first, is quickly embraced by both the unconventional Janice (Lizzie Caplan) and Damien (Daniel Franzese) and the ‘Plastics’ the most popular (and therefore evil) girls in school. Persuaded by Janice to infiltrate the Plastics ...
...mildly feminist message isn’t lost on the teenagers that I have no doubt will love it. Unlike other brilliant but more obviously unconventional high school comedies like ‘Election’ and ‘Ghost World’, ‘Mean Girls’ plays to the widest audience possible and succeeds in satisfying everyone – no mean feat. ... Read review