2008 Woodie Awards
'Mean Girls' tops box office
Film: Meaningful message sent to gils through vanity
By: Evan Ortega
Issue date: 5/6/04 Section: The Arts
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In Hollywood's latest venture into the teenage movie genre, "Mean Girls" is a well-written movie that anybody from teenagers to parents may enjoy.
The movie provides plenty of laughs, satire, and insight into the seemingly important and complex social world of high school.
Featuring Lindsay Lohan, "Mean Girls" tells the story from the perspective of Cady Heron, a new student in her junior year of high school who had previously been home-schooled by her parents while they lived in Africa.
Among the many obstacles Cady faces while attempting to adjust to the social structure of high school is to find the right group of people to become friends with.
The first couple of days in school, Cady meets two outcasts who immediately befriend her.
Cady eventually and reluctantly drops them so she can join a clique of the three most popular girls in the school known as the Plastics in reference to their synthetically inspired beauty.
"Mean Girls" proves to be different from most in its class.
This movie does not rely on teenage stereotypes and over-recycled formulas to hold the plot together and use sexual innuendo in a desperate attempt to hold the viewers' attention.
Although "Mean Girls" is not entirely original, it offers a witty satirical look at high school life for teens living in a time of plastic surgery and carb counting.
Regina (Rachel McAdams) is the image and fashion conscious ringleader of the Plastics. She manages to manipulate her two underlings, Karen (Amanda Seyfried) and Gretchen (Lacey Chabert).
Regina gets the other two girls thinking, saying, and doing whatever she feels like, from wearing pink Fridays to going out with certain guys.
Cady is soon able to join these girls and live the ultimate adolescent lifestyle that so many girls in school can only dream about.
She becomes popular, pretty and powerful.
But she starts to pick up traits of Regina; she gradually becomes vain, materialistic and manipulative.
The movie provides plenty of laughs, satire, and insight into the seemingly important and complex social world of high school.
Featuring Lindsay Lohan, "Mean Girls" tells the story from the perspective of Cady Heron, a new student in her junior year of high school who had previously been home-schooled by her parents while they lived in Africa.
Among the many obstacles Cady faces while attempting to adjust to the social structure of high school is to find the right group of people to become friends with.
The first couple of days in school, Cady meets two outcasts who immediately befriend her.
Cady eventually and reluctantly drops them so she can join a clique of the three most popular girls in the school known as the Plastics in reference to their synthetically inspired beauty.
"Mean Girls" proves to be different from most in its class.
This movie does not rely on teenage stereotypes and over-recycled formulas to hold the plot together and use sexual innuendo in a desperate attempt to hold the viewers' attention.
Although "Mean Girls" is not entirely original, it offers a witty satirical look at high school life for teens living in a time of plastic surgery and carb counting.
Regina (Rachel McAdams) is the image and fashion conscious ringleader of the Plastics. She manages to manipulate her two underlings, Karen (Amanda Seyfried) and Gretchen (Lacey Chabert).
Regina gets the other two girls thinking, saying, and doing whatever she feels like, from wearing pink Fridays to going out with certain guys.
Cady is soon able to join these girls and live the ultimate adolescent lifestyle that so many girls in school can only dream about.
She becomes popular, pretty and powerful.
But she starts to pick up traits of Regina; she gradually becomes vain, materialistic and manipulative.