There are some
movies you watched when you were young and wonder how it will feel seeing them
again. Sometimes, the nostalgia hits hard, and the movie becomes your very own
cult classic—a classic you share with friends who still find it adorable. Mean
Girls is one of those movies that gained such status for many people, but for
me, watching it again made me remember why I never really fancied it much back
then either.
The only part of
this movie I truly enjoyed was seeing the younger versions of actors we’ve come
to recognize. The acting and writing, to me, are just okay. Back in 2004, this
movie was huge—it was not only a critical success but also a massive moneymaker,
earning $130 million from a $17 million budget, which is no joke.
The plot centers
around a young girl named Cady (Lindsay Lohan). Cady grew up in Africa and
seemed to be the only girl in the world who could live in another part of the
world and still retain the accent of her native country. For me, that was a
huge flaw in the script, but it’s not the only thing in this movie that doesn’t
quite work, and there’s no point in diving into all that.
Cady was always
homeschooled by her mother, and this was her first time in a real school with
other students. High school, as we know, is a place where "mean
girls" live, and Cady was about to get a taste of that. She met two
students, Lizzy and Daniel, who became her somewhat best friends and guides.
While she was
being hit on, one of the "Plastics" (the three popular girls at
Cady’s school) came to her rescue and recruited her to join the group. Cady was
given the rundown on the rules to be part of the crew, and when Lizzy and
Daniel found out, they told her to use the opportunity to spy on the group and
gather information they could use against Regina (Rachel McAdams). Regina is
the most popular girl in school and the leader of the Plastics.
Soon, Cady goes
deep undercover, and things start to blur. She finds it hard to distinguish her
real self from the person she’s pretending to be.
The movie is
about how everything blows up and how revenge and counter-revenge lead to a
massive school-wide fallout.
Back in 2004,
this was Tina Fey’s first writing credit for a feature film. She wrote the
screenplay, which was based on her high school experiences and adapted from the
2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman.
Mean Girls is a
fun movie to watch, but there’s not much more to it than that.
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