"Mean Girls," in all its episodic parts, has the air of a memoir, and it likely will feel sufficiently familiar to some of those who watch.
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05/10/04
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Reviews Counted:168
Fresh:141
Rotten:27
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: Funnier and more smartly written than the average teen comedy.
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... [More]
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Amanda Seyfried
Director: Mark Waters
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Reviews for Mean Girls
Trafficking unknowingly in stale teen girl flick clichés and failing to maintain a narrative flow past the hour mark, Mean Girls is a disappointment.
05/10/04
...a lean, mean entertainment that manages to be both playful and subversive while exhibiting plenty of mainstream appeal.
05/10/04
All readers who ever have been teen-agers: Raise your hands. You're the ones who should see "Mean Girls."
05/09/04
The cinematic equivalent of a funny and sick yearbook collage.
05/09/04
Why does Tina Fey insist on taking off her shirt and showing us her bra? That's very, you know, like, Plastic.
05/08/04
Tina Fey’s screenplay maintains an excellent balance between cutting social commentary and plain good old fashioned fun.
05/08/04
Saturday Night Live scribe Tina Fey can officially pat herself on the back.
05/08/04
I sense the movie is payback time for Fey: She’s just as bitchy as the Plastics are, and at least the Plastics don’t push their rivals in front of trucks.
05/07/04
High school social hierarchy gets a bright and funny treatment.
05/05/04
Mean Girls” is a rich and raunchy laugh riot.
05/05/04
There's a precision and an uncanny sense of insider knowledge at work that causes Mean Girls to be very funny and a startlingly perceptive look at life in high school.
05/05/04
Mind you, I'm not quite prepared to elevate the team of Waters-Lohan to the level of Kurosawa-Mifune or Scorsese-De Niro, but they've clearly got a good thing going.
05/05/04
Perhaps the meanness of the girls at Evanstown HS reflects the maliciousness of the U.S. presidential campaign!
05/04/04
Not as consistently funny as 'Heathers' or corrosive as 'Election,' but usually hilarious and occasionally chilling in its observations of 'Girl World.'
05/04/04
Mean Girls dips itself into the acidity of the 1989 cult favorite Heathers just long enough to give this smart teen comedy a delicious bite.
05/04/04
Steers toward familiar teen-movie hyperbole, but it's the way the girls plot their sabotage while doling out empty compliments that keeps things real.
05/04/04
High school girls are “mean” but not in the biting “SNL” way you expect
05/03/04
Lohan does what all great stars have to do, blend animal sex appeal with quantifiable acting skills.
05/03/04
Refreshing, astute.
05/03/04
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