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Mean Girls

2004 Directed by Mark Waters

Welcome to girl world.

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

Lindsay Lohan Rachel McAdams Tina Fey Tim Meadows Amy Poehler Ana Gasteyer Lacey Chabert Lizzy Caplan Daniel Franzese Neil Flynn Jonathan Bennett Amanda Seyfried Rajiv Surendra Elana Shilling Graham Kartna Ely Henry David Aherne Ayo Agbonkpolo Molly Shanahan Jeff Moser Miranda Edwards Les Porter Daniel DeSanto Diego Klattenhoff Dwayne Hill Alexandra Stapley Nicole Crimi Julia Chantrey Stefanie Drummond Show All…

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Review by Evan ★★★★ 5

If you claim to dislike this movie, stop lying to yourself.

Mean Girls is fetch as fuck.
Review by James Haves ★★★★★ 6

Let me tell you something about Mean Girls. I thought it would be crap. I know, right? It's so embarrassing. I don't even... Whatever. So then about about eight months ago, I saw the ratings for it and so I started the movie with the assumption that it would be totally awful but then I started howling with laughter, and my other movies were like, weirdly jealous of it. Like, if I would skip past them to watch Mean Girls, they'd be like, "Why didn't you watch me?" And I'd be like, "Why are you so obsessed with me?" So then, for my birthday party, which was a marathon of my favourite comedies, I was like, "other movies, I can't…
Review by Mary Conti ★★★★★ 20

Unlike the work of the majority of hacks who couldn't create a proper social satire if their life depended on it, Mark Waters is a masterful filmmaker with a true bite for commentary, elegantly combining a pop narrative with timeless humor to create a social critique that would make Bunuel brush.

Armed with Lindsay Lohan, the Anna Karina to Waters' Godard, Waters traverses the American high school landscape, like a tiger on the prowl, effectively critiquing all the "cliques" one might find in such a traditional setting. The titular Mean Girls (amusingly named "The Plastics") may be the center target of Waters gaze, but no one in this film is perfect. Deep down, everyone is a "Mean Girl".

Lohan, an…
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★ 5

Who doesn't love this classic?

I don't care if it's a guilty pleasure, it's funny and twisted in equal measure. Plus, the moment when the principal takes out the baseball bat is one of the most epic moments in the history of high school comedies.

Also, Mean Girls is so quotable you could have a ten minute conversation just with lines from the film.

Shut up!

No, I'm not kidding. This is something else. Check it out now. One of my favorite comedies in general, Mean Girls is so fetch.
Review by jack ★★★★½

the slow pan out from regina to reveal the shit she's started??? invented cinematography
Review by bruna ★★★½

when janis ian says she's lebanese she really means she's a lesbian, i know that cause i used to watch glee

Recent reviews

Review by Hayden ★★★

WW: T, Jenny. ABQ, NM
Review by Brick Tamland ★★★★

8.5/10
been thoroughly enjoying comedies as of late. send some more Rachel Mcadams comedies my way❤
Review by Nick

Very quotable.
Review by Igor ★★★★★

Everytime i rewatch it, it gets better
Review by Grace ★★★½

I think I’ve only seen this once and I’m pretty sure it was one of the first PG-13 movies I watched completely on my own (thanks Netflix) and I was so dang happy to be home-schooled...😬😋 #homeshooledinnocentchild
Probably worth a rewatch cause I keep joking / asking if “butter’s a carb” while going through nutrition notes.
Review by Seth Anders ★★★★

Such a classic. Still funny to this day! (Also, holy shit, that cast!!!)
Review by tessa ★★★★½

iconic.
Review by tmytffny ★★★★

I remember I watch this movie when I was still in highschool. And I remember I laughed through the whole movie. I didn't know who's playing in the movie at that time. But when Lindsay appears in the first 15 minutes, I realized, "Hey, this is the little girl in Parent's Trap!" Because in the PT, Lindsay was still very cute little girl and her acting when she was a kid was very goood.
Review by Diogo Vale ★★★★★

And how do you overthrow a dictator?