Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004)
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Date Watched: 02/22/16
Cinema or Home: Home
Reason For Watching: Because Omnizoa seems to think this is a much better movie than Being John Malkovich
Rewatch: No
Like pretty much every high school movie ever made, Mean Girls deals with stereotypes, specifically those involving the power plays, backstabbing, and cruelty surrounding cliques and the ridiculous things people will do to fit in. The trouble is that it doesn't do a very good job of it.
The characters are universally one dimensional (though I suppose one could argue that there's not a whole lot of dimension to most high school girls anyway) and never gain any depth as the movie progresses. The "Plastics" stay plastic. The nerds stay nerdy. The token gay guy stays the token gay guy. The artsy goth chick that people think is a lesbian stays the artsy goth chick that people think is a lesbian. None of them become anything more and yet the viewer is expected to buy the film's heavy handed and overly sentimental finale anyway.
It doesn't work for me. Which is not to say that I hated the movie. It was okay. I even chuckled a time or two. It just treads the same ground as countless other movies before it and in doing so offers nothing fresh, original, or particularly memorable.
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Last edited by Miss Vicky; 02-23-16 at 03:00 AM.