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Mean Girls is a 2004 teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters, starring Lindsay Lohan. The plastics rule over high school, while people both hate and love them, they want to be them. Cady Heron has lived in Africa for all of her life until she turned 15 and moved to America and enrolled in high school, where she catches the eye of the plastics. Two of the art crew warn her about Regina, the queen bee of the plastics and how horrible she can be to those not in her circle, but then decide to turn it around and use Cady to bring the plastics down from within. Will it work? Will Cady change?
The casting was really well done, and all of the actors seem to play their roles perfectly. Lindsay Lohan was the headliner of the film, playing the main character, Cady Heron. She plays this part very well, and you can see her transform from clueless home schooled girl to plastic bitch in a matter of effortlessness. She is famous for many other films including The Parent Trap and Freaky Friday, and this is another one that seems to fit the style of film she acts in. Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried played the plastics, and for me the stand out performance was Amanda Seyfried, who shot to A List status a few years later after her role in Mamma Mia. She plays a dumb blonde, and the only plastic who isn’t really mean, and manages to make the role hilarious, delivering some great one liners really well. Lizzy Caplan and Daniel Franzese make the two outcasts, the goth and the overly gay guy who make a great duo. Jonathon Benett stars as Aaron Samuels, the guy who every girl wants but his role isn’t much more than looking good. Tina Fey makes an appearance as the maths teacher, Mrs Norbury.
The film was adapted from a non fiction advice book about dealing with high school cliques, called Queen Bees and Wannabes, it was adapted very well into a great screenplay by Tina Fey, who also stars in the film.
It’s great because it’s a film that you don’t need to think about too much to be able to understand it, it’s good for sleepovers where you want a background film so you can chat as well. This is why its such a good teen movie.
Its rated as a 12, and very nearly missed out on being a 15. It had to change a few of the lines to get that rating also, such as changing ‘is your cherry popped’ to ‘is your muffin buttered?’ there are also a few sexual references, but no violence or drug use, just mentions of it. One thing that might earn it the rating is the teenage use of alcohol.
When I bought my copy it was around the £10 mark as it was quite new at the time, but now you can get it at quite a lot of places for £5 or under, especially if you look in supermarkets. If you prefer internet shopping, then you can buy it at play.com for £3.99 with free delivery.
The soundtrack wasn’t anything special, but the teen music played seemed to fit in with the mood of the movie.
Overall, I thought that it was a great film, and have watched it many times since I first saw it. It has plenty of humour in, and is a really good movie for teens.
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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...)
hannahmc3 02.11.2006 (02.11.2006)
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