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Lacks the genuine bile that made Heathers so bracing.
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.
Mean Girls has a sharp, grown-up sensibility that belies its marketing as airhead comedy.
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.
Happily, Fey and Waters gently tweak the studios' usual high-gloss caricature of adolescence and aim for acutely hilarious and surprisingly empathic sociology.
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.
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