Mean Girls (2004)
85 %
Reviews Counted: 166 Fresh: 141 Rotten:25 Average Rating: 6.9/10
Consensus:
Funnier and more smartly written than the average teen comedy.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 30, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $85,974,306
Synopsis: In this survival-of-the-fittest teen comedy, high school is a dangerous jungle seething with teenagers who prey on each other like wild animals. The nonstop jokes are hilariously rewarding as they exaggerate adolescent vanity and satirize political correctness issues like race, class,... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Amanda Seyfried, Lacey Chabert
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It announces the arrival of Tina Fey into the ranks of smart screenwriters.
09/27/07
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Props to Tina Fey for being the first cast member since Mike Myers in Wayne's World to survive her movie being produced by Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels -- and not also have her movie completely suck.
09/29/06
Mean Girls lacks sincerity, and instead acts like any teenage queen bee -- being cruel and picking on the weak -- only to then break its own rules and be hypocritical.
09/27/06
Happily, Fey and Waters gently tweak the studios’ usual high-gloss caricature of adolescence and aim for acutely hilarious and surprisingly empathic sociology.
06/24/06
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The stinging wit of first-time screenwriter Tina Fey gives Mean Girls a zest and zing few high school comedies ever muster.
05/26/06
It is precisely intelligence, and Fey’s refusal to talk down to her audience, that elevates Mean Girls above most other teen movies out there.
12/06/05
The movie is smart and perceptive about the messages our culture sends to young women, and about how they, like all of us, tend to respond in predictable ways.
09/16/05
Nails the “survival of the fittest” mentality that permeates high school social life.
05/04/05
Fey’s script is brilliant. Waters’ direction is inspired. This film has pace,...This is a funny, enjoyable film.
09/26/04
Tina Fey turns gag-me cliches into something fresh, edgy and laugh-out-loud funny.
09/23/04
This movie should be required viewing for all adolescent girls and their parents.
09/21/04
A smart little teen picture that, for a change, actually features recognizable teens.
08/07/04
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I would be more amused if the topic of rich material girls had not been worn to a thread elsewhere.
08/01/04
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