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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Mean Girls (2004)
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Reviews Counted: 165
Fresh: 140
Rotten:25
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 exaggerate adolescent vanity and... [More]
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Amanda Seyfried
Director: Mark Waters
Reviews for Mean Girls
Top Critic Frequently 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
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Top Critic Far from perfect, but it has brains beneath its glossy, vacuum-packed beauty.
06/15/04
Top Critic An incisive and brutally hilarious orientation to American high school culture
04/25/04
It announces the arrival of Tina Fey into the ranks of smart screenwriters.
09/27/07
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
Fey’s script is brilliant. Waters’ direction is inspired. This film has pace,...This is a funny, enjoyable film.
09/26/04
Tina Fey turns gag-me cliches into something fresh, edgy and laugh-out-loud funny.
09/23/04
This movie should be required viewing for all adolescent girls and their parents.
09/21/04
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