Mean Girls (2004)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 174
Fresh: 145 | Rotten: 29
Funnier and more smartly written than the average teen comedy.
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 9
Funnier and more smartly written than the average teen comedy.
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Tina Fey from Saturday Night Live wrote and appears in this comedy about the alternately funny and terrifying pecking order among teenage girls. Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is a 15-year-old girl who has spent most of her life in Africa, where she was home-schooled by her zoologist parents. When her family relocates to the United States, Cady finds herself attending a high school in suburban Illinois, where she gets a crash course in the various sub-strata of the student body: the jocks, the
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Cast
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Lindsay Lohan
Cady Heron -
Rachel McAdams
Regina George -
Tina Fey
Ms. Norbury -
Tim Meadows
Mr. Duvall -
Amy Poehler
Mrs. George -
Ana Gasteyer
Betsy Heron -
Lacey Chabert
Gretchen Weiners -
Lizzy Caplan
Janis Ian -
Daniel Franzese
Damian -
Neil Flynn
Chip Heron -
Jonathan Bennett
Aaron -
Amanda Seyfried
Karen Smith -
Nicole Crimi
Kylie George -
Wai Choy
Tim Pak -
Olympia Lukis
Jessica Lopez -
Jonathan Malen
Peter Haldi -
Stefanie Drummond
Bethany -
Dwayne Hill
Coach Carr
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All Critics (174) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (150) | Rotten (30) | DVD (29)
Lacks the genuine bile that made Heathers so bracing.
Top CriticHappily, Fey and Waters gently tweak the studios' usual high-gloss caricature of adolescence and aim for acutely hilarious and surprisingly empathic sociology.
A smart little teen picture that, for a change, actually features recognizable teens.
I would be more amused if the topic of rich material girls had not been worn to a thread elsewhere.
A teen movie I enjoyed enormously, much to my surprise.
Mean Girls isn't a particularly deep picture, but it does have some weight and ballast.
The best of the recent clutch of teen movies, Mean Girls also represents a return to form for the filmmaking wing of Saturday Night Live.
Mature but often-hilarious teen comedy.
Lindsay Lohan is more likely to die before 30 than to land another lead role as suited to her (likely squandered) talent. Tina Fey's script is an observant equal-opportunity offender about how high school remains a jungle of hormones and haughtiness.
Like Heathers with the edges filed down a bit...the kind of smooth, clever (and rare) entertainment that critics and audiences can all enjoy, guilt-free. [Blu-ray]
Mean Girls is an very intelligent, often funny, well written and clever satire on high school and its status quo.
The film boasts a solidly female cast, and its' a well cast film at that.
Where the movie is merely cute, it could have been tough. Where it's pleasantly amusing, it could have been outrageously hilarious. (Blu-ray Edition)
Like the wannabes at North Shore, Mean Girls longs to take a step beyond the ordinary, but it takes the easier, more traditional route instead.
Though better written, better acted and with more wit and subtlety than your average teen flick, the atmosphere in Mean Girls with its promiscuous sex and well, meanness, make it almost as nasty to sit through as these girls are to each other.
A lively and upbeat teen comedy that grapples with social dynamics, Mean Girls is fresh, spicy and laden with plenty of tang.
It's not a classic, but it's an above-average and refreshingly smart teen comedy.
It announces the arrival of Tina Fey into the ranks of smart screenwriters.
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.
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.
The stinging wit of first-time screenwriter Tina Fey gives Mean Girls a zest and zing few high school comedies ever muster.
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.
Audience Reviews for Mean Girls
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I was extremely surprised by how funny, smart, and overall great Mean Girls really was. I've heard from people that it was a good movie and that I should watch it, but it never was really anything that appealed to me. In retrospect, that was an extremely stupid position to take on my part. This film is actually like a splice between Easy A and Heathers, and is just as smart and good as those two films are.
A 16 year old girl name Cady moves to America from Africa where she spent her whole life being home schooled by her researcher parents. When she enters school for the first time, she is an innocent and sweet young lady. Then the plastics get ahold of her. The plastics are a clique made up of three "mean girls" and are lead by the meanest Regina. Cady splits time for a while, being both a bitch and herself. Soon, everything else takes over and she's just a bitch.
There's nothing here that I could really complain about. The performances are there. The high school satire aspect of it is there in perfect amounts and at the exact right time. The characters and the writing is strong as well. High school movies like this can sometimes be extremely surprising in how well they exaggerate the true facts about high school and make it into an almost believable story.
If you haven't seen this film yet, give it a look. I know it looks like a dumb chick flick, but it is truly much more. No guy should have to be ashamed to say they have seen and liked Mean Girls. It's truly a movie that transcends the chick flick barrier. Girls and guys alike should be able to get a massive amount of enjoyment from watching these characters and listening to their dialogue. It's a really enjoyable film.
Super Reviewer
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- Damian: Watch out please! Fresh meat coming through!
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- Cady Heron: I hated Regina George! I hated her!
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- Ms. Norbury: Oh, hi. Did you wanna buy some drugs?
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- Damian: I want my pink shirt back! I want my pink shirt back!
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- Coach Carr: Every one grab some rubbers.
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- Gretchen Weiners: That is so fetch!
Discussion Forum
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| Funniest quote? | 53 days ago | 5 |
| The film in general | 4 months ago | 0 |
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