Mean Girls/Clueless

Mean Girls/Clueless
by Amy Heckerling, Mark Waters

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Movie Review: Hilarious, witty, comedic gem of '04
Summary: 5 Stars

MEAN GIRLS instead chronicles the life of Cady Heron, a homeschooled student who spent her life in Africa. For the first time, she must walk through the doors of a public high school. She's nervous but feels she can get through her first day and come home in one piece. In a way, she's wrong. Her first day goes horribly.

But after meeting Janis Ian and her best friend, totally out and proud Damien, Cady (pronounced like "Katie") is glad to be befriended by the two social misfits who, prior to her arrival, have enjoyed no one's company but their own. "I'm going to call you "Caddie"," Janis says. The three make an interesting trio.

Written by Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live fame, MEAN GIRLS is wickedly funny, laced with satire-esque humor and lots of laughs. Lindsay proves that, unlike Hilary Duff, she can act. Parallels can be drawn between MEAN GIRLS and my favorite movie of all time, HEATHERS.

What originally begins as an experiment goes horribly wrong. Janis, Damien, and Cady have decided that Cady must infiltrate the renown Plastics clique. Because Cady is a beautiful girl, she is welcomed to the Plastics lunch table. Leader Regina George and her friends, Gretchen and Karen, are three girls seriously blessed in the looks department. It at first seems as if everyone envies their social spotlight but in reality, while some do, others loathe them.

Like Janis Ian, for example.

Regina is wonderfully played by beautiful Rachel McAdams (The Hot Chick). Insecure Gretchen is played by Party of Five actress (and the voice of Eliza Thornberry!) Lacey Chabert. Karen is played by newcomer Amanda Seyfried, who is still actually a high-schooler. Despite this being her first film role, she looked familiar to me. OT but I found out it is her face that graces the covers of the Victoria Martin series by Francine Pascal.

The plan against the Plastics first conjured up by Janis soon turns ugly. It had been Cady's goal to destory the Plastics. Instead, she takes Regina George's place as the leader of the gang and almost loses her two true friends. And Regina is not happy. The trouble between her and Cady begins when she falls for Regina's ex boyfriend, Aaron, played by Eric Bennett, I think - he's also a newcomer and so incredibly hottttt I cannot even describe it. I pray to God I see him in more roles soon.

Cady grows into a mean, spoiled brat. Aaron is a genuinely nice guy and after he and Regina reconcile and break up again, he is drawn to Cady until he sees her true colors. Now she must deal with him disliking her - he sits in front of her in Advanced Calc. Cady must also deal with the fact Janis and Damien can't stand the sight of her and that Regina's wrath can seriously be damaging. Even her parents have noticed she's changed - and for the worse! Cady's plethora of problems sorted out isn't dealt with in an easy-breezy fashion, which I really thought was to the movie's advantage.

Hilarious moments include a schoolwide brawl due to the Slam Book, a game of Trust that takes place in order for apologies to make rounds, comparisons to high school being similar to Africa's Survival of the Fittest, Cady's party in which Aaron comes up to her bedroom (OOH!), and certain lines I won't reiterate. It's better you hear them for yourself and be surprised.

MEAN GIRLS is a coming-of-age comedy, basically. Both children and adults will enjoy it - me and my mom loved it! Critics overall have had positive things to say about this witty film. Hopefully, Tina Fey will write another screenplay soon.

Summary of Mean Girls/Clueless