Review by jrfranklin01

I'm not into love stories or the so called, "Chick Flicks", nor do I care much for teen comedies. One of my friends rented this movie and brought it over. He has a thing for the lead, Lindsay Lohan. I think he's crazy, as she's WAY too young for him. Anyway, I sat down for about ninety minutes of what I thought was going to be cinematic torture. Thirty minutes into the film I had changed my mind. Don't get me wrong, I still thought I was the wrong demographic, but I admired "Mean Girls" message nonetheless.

After being home-schooled her whole life, teen Cady Heron (Lohan) is enrolled in public school. This part of the film I could empathize with since I was home-schooled myself (7th and 8th grade). Cady tries hard to fit in with everyone. But being brought up in a different culture, she doesn't understand the other students' peculiarities and perspectives. She no sooner begins to fit in with a couple of "odd" characters before she is recognized for her beauty by a pretentious all-girl trio known as The Plastics. And Cady, caught between two different groups of people, gets sandwiched in the middle in her efforts to "be cool". Not uncharacteristic of youth. In the process, Cady herself becomes plastic, pretending to be a flippant and vain teenie bopper. Her metamorphosis from the normal and kind Cady Heron to the plastic and superficial one, ends up catching up with her in the end, as she risks losing all her friends.

"Mean Girls" is a film that isn't geared toward adults, obviously. It attempts to entertain teens and still try to convey meaningful themes all kids should know about - goodness, decency, and friendship. I give it 7/10.