Happily, Fey and Waters gently tweak the studios’ usual high-gloss caricature of adolescence and aim for acutely hilarious and surprisingly empathic sociology.
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06/24/06
Mean Girls (2004)
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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.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Comedies
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
Reviews for Mean Girls
Top CriticFrequently hilarious teen comedy with a witty script and likeable characters -- this is further proof that Lindsay Lohan is fast becoming THE teen star of the noughties.
06/19/04
There's nothing here you won’t have seen a million times before, but -- despite its shortcomings -- it's still one of the better teen movies to come along in a while.
06/18/04
Top CriticProof that Hollywood occasionally gets it right
06/16/04
Top CriticFar from perfect, but it has brains beneath its glossy, vacuum-packed beauty.
06/15/04
Top CriticAn incisive and brutally hilarious orientation to American high school culture
04/25/04
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]
06/19/09
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04/29/09
The film boasts a solidly female cast, and its' a well cast film at that.
04/18/09
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.
04/09/09
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12/27/07
It announces the arrival of Tina Fey into the ranks of smart screenwriters.
09/27/07
Lacks the genuine bile that made Heathers so bracing.
07/19/07
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
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
Nails the “survival of the fittest” mentality that permeates high school social life.
05/04/05
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