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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 Lacey Chabert Amanda Seyfried Lizzy Caplan Daniel Franzese Jonathan Bennett Tina Fey Tim Meadows Amy Poehler Ana Gasteyer Neil Flynn Rajiv Surendra Daniel DeSanto Diego Klattenhoff Dwayne Hill Les Porter Eve Crawford Jack Newman Michelyn Emelle Bathsheba Garnett Molly Shanahan Jonathan Malen Julia Chantrey Stefanie Drummond Jan Caruana Erin Norah Thompson Alisha Morrison Olympia Lukis 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 jose ★★★★

sometimes you just gotta ask why white people are white
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

the slow pan out from regina to reveal the shit she's started??? invented cinematography
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…

Recent reviews

Review by 0xcirrus ★★★★½

mean girls made fetch a thing bitch
Review by deathtrap47 ★★★ 1

If Regina George actually died in that bus accident it would have been 5 stars.
Review by Paty

she doesn’t even go here
Review by Max Reid ★★★★

Tina Fey is a genius
Review by Fuchslauf ★★★★

Der Plot ist nichts Neues. Die Charaktere kennt man schon. Die meisten Witze hat man auch schon gehört...
Aber!
Von allen Highschool-Komödien, oder wie auch immer man dieses Genre auch nennen mag, verbindet 'Mean Girls' all diese Aspekte am besten und macht aus dem bewährten Stoff eine lustige und wirksame Komödie, die oftmals näher an der Realität erzählt wird, als so manche überspitze Darstellung oder Albernheit vermuten lassen mag.
What you see, is what you get. Wer sich darauf einlassen kann und keine spitzfindige Sozialstudie erwartet, kann hier auf jeden Fall eine Menge Spaß haben. Meine Definition von einem leichtem und spaßigem Feel-Good-Movie ist der Streifen allemal.
Alles was davor und danach kam und einen ähnlichen Ansatz verfolgt, wird sich mit 'Mean Girls' messen müssen.
Review by Andyyy ★★★½

Rachel McAdams has been a star since the start
Review by musti ★★★

first time ive ever seen this and it reminds me of clueless and heathers . ive seen this plot a million times before.
Review by LEO 🍧🌈🎪 ★★★★★

(ﾉ>ω<)━☆ﾟ:｡･:*:･ﾟ’★,｡･:*:･ﾟ’☆ 9.5/10 !

I SHOULDN'T EVEN HAVE TO TELL YOU THIS MOVIE IS GREAT. IT'S GREAT. WATCH IT IF YOU HAVEN'T, AND REWATCH IT AS MANY TIMES AS YOU CAN. STAN REGINA GEORGE!
Review by weicjames ★★

When I first watched this movie shortly after its release 14 years ago, I remembered it immediately becoming popular for its relatable depiction of high school life and for being incredibly quotable. Revisiting it now feels like a weird trip back in time, when depictions of high schools in cinemas predominantly featured catty cliques of popular girls and dumb football jocks bullying unpopular pizza-faced nerds. It makes me think of the scene in 21 Jump Street when Channing Tatum returns to high school only to find that his too-cool-for-school attitude no longer secure him a seat atop the social totem pole.

But no worries, because Mean Girls lives in the era where the handsome jocks and pretty cheerleaders still sit…