Teenage boys might be sulky and thuggish, but everyone knows that teenage girls are superior when it comes to the refinements of psychological torture. Mean Girls, Mark Waters' high-school survival story, fizzes with peculiarly feminine evil, of the kind that comes dripping through a pillowy smirk garnished with baby-pink lip gloss. Our field-guide in the world of warring American schoolgirl cliques is Cady (Lindsay Lohan), a 15- year-old who has been raised – and home-tutored – in the African bush by her zoologist parents. Bush life has not prepared her for the jungle that is North Shore High School, a conceit that was laboured just enough to make me grateful that Waters didn't take it any further. Mean Girls is inspired by the factions described in Rosalind Wiseman's best-selling dissection of vicious teenage mores: Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence. At North Shore High, blonde Regina George (Rachel McAdams) is the undisputed Queen Bee of a clique called the Plastics: a strutting, bitchy trio with super-skimpy designer clothes, dazzling teeth and cleavages that would do a Las Vegas pole-dancer proud.
it was a funny movie, but i think it would be awkward to watch it with family.
Review by DiegoBlockedParentSpoilers2023-10-20T21:10:14Z
Teenage boys might be sulky and thuggish, but everyone knows that teenage girls are superior when it comes to the refinements of psychological torture. Mean Girls, Mark Waters' high-school survival story, fizzes with peculiarly feminine evil, of the kind that comes dripping through a pillowy smirk garnished with baby-pink lip gloss. Our field-guide in the world of warring American schoolgirl cliques is Cady (Lindsay Lohan), a 15- year-old who has been raised – and home-tutored – in the African bush by her zoologist parents. Bush life has not prepared her for the jungle that is North Shore High School, a conceit that was laboured just enough to make me grateful that Waters didn't take it any further. Mean Girls is inspired by the factions described in Rosalind Wiseman's best-selling dissection of vicious teenage mores: Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence. At North Shore High, blonde Regina George (Rachel McAdams) is the undisputed Queen Bee of a clique called the Plastics: a strutting, bitchy trio with super-skimpy designer clothes, dazzling teeth and cleavages that would do a Las Vegas pole-dancer proud.
it was a funny movie, but i think it would be awkward to watch it with family.