Mean Girls
There has been a disturbing trend over the past decade to create a
‘teen’ film, pack with the hottest stars dujour, and expect the teen
audience to flock to the theater to relish the creation. Mean Girls
breaks the mold by not being a mindless, senseless high school drama,
but by actually having a point. Add true-to-life characters, and you
have genius.
Mean Girls is the story Cady, played by Lindsay Lohan
(Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Freaky Friday, The Parent Trap),
a new girl who desperately grabs for acceptance as she goes to her
first public high school. She quickly learns the ropes, and is
befriended by the popular girls, who turn out to be some of the worst
creatures on earth.
Director Mark S. Waters (Freaky Friday, Head Over Heels) combines the SNL writing talents of Tina Fey (TV’s Saturday Night Live) with the acting talents of new-comers Rachel McAdams (The Hot Chick), Lacey Chabert (Daddy Day Care, Not Another Teen Movie, Lost in Space), and Amanda Seyfried.
So, you’re thinking, with all this great fun, where’s the catch? Well,
the catch is that this movie will make you split your gut laughing. If
you are lucky enough to see it on a Friday or Saturday night, with the
other Teen’s who have taken over the theater, then you’ll laugh even
harder. Lohan, McAdams, Chabert, and Seyfried all deliver the perfect
plastic high school drama queens that we all know and hate. In
addition, it brings the daily lives of your average teenager home to
some of you old people out there. Don’t worry, although your son or
daughter would rather die than see this film with you, you will raise a
few notches in the coolness scale if you tell them you saw it.
Fey has an especially clear understanding of the high-school drama, and
even new-aged ways teens (and some adults) trap others in lies and
counter-lies. She has a strong affinity for making the incredibly
unbelievable story very believable.
This movie is a must
for parents, as well as teens, just don’t go together. Parents, if you
absolutely must see this film at the same time as your children, please
do them a favor, and pretend like you don’t exist!
