Mean Girls

Pros: The screenplay; Good, original humor
Cons: Some things are exaggerated, but that's what makes it fun

Teen movies are released on a consistent basis and often do well at the box office even when the motion picture itself isn’t all that good. Directors and those who work in the movie industry know that the younger market loves movies and will have no ...

Pros: Lohan, McAdams, Poehler, Fey's acting and writing
Cons: Heavy-handed climax; familiar subject matter

Cady Heron didn't know what to expect when she went to school. Cady (Lindsay Lohan) had spent a great deal of her young life in Africa, where her parents (Ana Gasteyer and Neil Flynn) had taught her in their home. They returned to America, in part, to ...

Pros: Overall, I enjoyed the film.
Cons: Deals with issues that may be hard to laugh at for some audiences.

One of the best things about going to the movies is having an opportunity to relax and enjoy a little mindless humor. Some of my friends and associates probably find it odd that I would be lured into a film like Mean Girls seeing that in my real ...

Pros: Linsay Lohan, Tina Fey, Great writing and an original story line.
Cons: none.

Coming to a new school is a hard enough process. We have all been the new kid going from middle school to high school. But, going from home-schooling into high school? Now this was the daunting task put in front of Cady Heron in the movie Mean Girls. ...

Pros: Fey and other SNL-ers, very funny, true-to-life for the most part
Cons: horrible ending, a few over-the-top characters and moments

The problem with most Saturday Night Live skits and SNL-based films is that they have one joke that they beat to death, and you find yourself yelling at the screen, “Please, end! This isn’t funny anymore!” With the exception ...

Pros: Fey's script, Lohan's performance, and a great supporting cast.
Cons:

None

If you've even had a nodding acquaintance with my movie reviews here in Epinions or elsewhere, you probably have noticed that I'm more into "guy" movies (think Die Hard, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or The Hunt for Red October) than I am into frothy, ...

Pros: Tina Fey, Lindsey Lohan, various other former SNL cast members
Cons: sappy, predictable ending

The curious thing about Mean Girls is that it succeeds precisely where most films of its genre fail: namely, right off the bat, and often. The problem with the typical film dealing with high schoolers is, of course, that it doesn't understand ...

Pros: Lohan, fun and engaging movie
Cons: a little heavy-handed

It seems that Lindsay Lohan may be going in a slightly different direction with her entertainment now, but for a while there, she was the queen of teen movies. It’s only appropriate, I suppose, that she would take on the starring role in Mean ...

Pros: Tim Meadows, Amy Poehler, Hysterically Funny
Cons: Modestly Talented Teen Cast

Genre: Comedy Sub-category: Teen Comedy Laugh Factor: Side-Splitting Humor Synopsis: Cady Heron is a gentle home-schooled girl cast into a world far more vicious than the African jungle -- high school. In her quest to ...

Pros: Lindsay Lohan, Tim Meadows, script, very funny
Cons: Gets a little sappy

I had wanted to see Mean Girls for some time, even though many of my friends thought it would be just a stupid teen flick. So finally I went to see it yesterday by myself and really enjoyed it. I decided that my friends were wrong, and Mean ...

Pros: Witty script, solid performances, decent message
Cons: A bit too obvious and conventional a lot of the time

Mean Girls is a Spike Lee-style empowerment movie aimed at teenage girls. Granted that Spike Lee hardly invented the theme, but how many of Spike's joints have been built around this basic thesis: Black people need to stop putting themselves ...

Pros: Accurate portrayal of high school life, Best Lohan performance to date
Cons: Perhaps too idealistic

When people think of young American pop actress' it is easy to relate them to drugs, alcohol, and rehab. It is difficult to name pop stars that have not been affected by fame and money as is the case of Lindsay Lohan who has publicly, in soap opera ...

Pros: Funny but makes a point
Cons: Some things are too over the top

I didn’t see this movie when it first came out and instead said I’d watch it when it came out on DVD. With my hectic schedule I didn’t get around to seeing it until I needed to watch it for a class. Yes I had to watch it for a Human Development class. ...

Pros: On-target satire, good observation of high school life.
Cons: Long drawn-out ending, some jokes overdone.

On the surface, one might be forgiven for thinking that Mean Girls is "just another teen movie". The ads promote it that way. In reality, it is much more. Like Kurt Vonnegut's novels use the sci-fi form as a means of making larger satirical points about ...

Pros: Story is entertaining; acting is great.
Cons: Theme is not new…

I am not a die-hard Lindsay Lohan fan of that I can surely attest, but I am a red-blooded American male so she does not completely escape my notice, my discerning eye if you will. So I have watch with morbid fascination as Lindsay morphed from a ...