Mean Girls (2004) !FULL!
Though better written, better acted and with more wit and subtlety than your avarage teen flick, the atmosphere in Mean Girls with its promiscuous sex and well, meanness, make it almost as nasty to sit through as these girls are to each other.
Mean Girls (2004)
Parents need to know that Mean Girls is a 2004 comedy centered on Cady (Lindsay Lohan), a new girl in a high school dominated by a clique of popular girls. Mature humor includes crude jokes, sexual references, mentions of venereal disease, underage drinking, and comic violence. Teen girls call one another names like "slut-faced ho bag," "fugly slut," and "nastiest skank bitch." The mother of one of the "mean girls" offers alcohol to her daughter and her friends, acts drunk, and offers condoms to her daughter when she walks in on her making out with a boy on her bed. The sex-ed teacher is revealed to be committing statutory rape with two students and is shown making out with a teen girl. Gay slurs are used. There's a prank involving a pregnancy test. Cady's home is taken over by partying teens while her parents are out of town. At the party, she gets drunk and throws up. A child watches Girls Gone Wild and imitates it. A girl refers to herself as "half a virgin," and there's a joke about girl-girl kissing. A strength of the movie is its realistic portrayal of teen characters, including disabled, gay, and racially diverse students. Overall, it's a biting satire that doesn't shy away from some adults' hypocrisy and doesn't sugarcoat the language and behavior of teens when, mired in insecurity and feelings of inferiority, they spread terrible rumors and hurl insults, and it tries to use the story to combat and address this issue.
MEAN GIRLS is about a girl who takes on a ruling clique. It's based on Queen Bees and Wannabes, a nonfiction book by Rosalind Wiseman about alpha girls and the impact they have on everyone else, adapted by Saturday Night Live head writer (and Weekend Update anchor) Tina Fey. Previously homeschooled by her zoologist parents while living in Africa, Cady (Lindsay Lohan) moves to Evanston, Illinois, and attends high school. Cady finds herself having a hard time understanding the social norms in the school, and is drawn to "the Plastics," the most popular clique in the school.
Screenwriter Tina Fey, who appears as a sympathetic teacher, has a good sense of how girls like Regina operate to establish their domination, appearing to be sweet and supportive but in reality being competitive, duplicitous, and manipulative, and always surrounding themselves with people who will add to their power and not challenge them. And Fey's superb sense of comedy gives the script some biting humor. Her Saturday Night Live colleagues lend support to the cast, with Tim Meadows as the school principal, Ana Gasteyer as Cady's mother, and Amy Poehler superb as Regina's mother, who insists, "I'm not like a regular mom; I'm a cool mom!"
Then again, how much help are parents giving when our heroine's dad (like his wife, an Africa-based zoologist) is so unattuned to American mores that he doesn't know that "grounded" means not being allowed to leave home?
Staying true to its title, Mean Girls features many characters engaging in rude behavior and nasty antics. But were the popular Plastics the only bad eggs? Or did some certain "greatest people you will ever meet" get in on the meanness too?
Aaron was never outright mean but he was relatively naive in that he dated Regina without realizing how horrible she was to others. He was generally a friendly person who was amicable with everyone he met, which was a direct contrast to the two girls who pursued him.
Gretchen was someone whose opinions were unpopular in Mean Girls because they largely served her own vanity. In fact, her apology during the assembly was to claim she was sorry the students were jealous of beauty and popularity, resulting in none of the girls, apart from Karen, bothering to catch her.
Despite being the protagonist, Cady had the potential to be quite rude, which she was to just about everyone after she embraced the clique mentality. Although she ultimately meant well, Cady instigated a lot of issues within the school when things got out of hand.
Regina reveled in the culture of chaos and her status as Queen Bee. The fact that even the principal claimed he had been insulted by Regina proves that she was a class apart when it came to being mean. On the flip side, the end of the film saw her turning over a new leaf and becoming a better person. 041b061a72