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Mean Girls

Mean Girls

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Smart comedy in which a new girl at school falls in with a popular crowd, only to find they are more vicious than any jungle cat.

Certificate12

Duration92 mins

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  • Archie, 16
  • 174 reviews

Mean = Average

2 stars

13 Oct 2019

I don’t have a lot to say about this movie, so I’ll try to keep this review as brief as possible.

I expected “Mean Girls” to be an absolute train wreck that I’d hate every second of, but I was surprised that this was actually a competently made film, rather than a dumpster fire filled with stereotypes and more consumerism than you can shake a wallet at. I certainly didn’t like it, but overall, “Mean Girls” is totally fine, it features some pretty good moral messages (even if the film doesn’t quite follow through on doing those themes justice) and some OK jokes.

The cast in “Mean Girls” are all decent, no one was bad or overly annoying, but I wasn’t blown-away by any of them.

The humour in “Mean Girls” was quite entertaining, it wasn’t gut-busting or anything, but there were a couple of mildly amusing moments.

At first, “Mean Girls” did a great job of including moral lessons about being yourself and not letting your peers change you for the worse. However, by the end of the film, these important concepts devolved into a snog-fest where, as if by magic, everyone falls in love with each other. There was one moment in particular (that involved a gay character falling for a straight one) that felt especially problematic; I’m certain that if “Mean Girls” was released today this scene would probably have caused outrage on the internet.

In conclusion, “Mean Girls” left no impression on me whatsoever. I knew it wouldn’t (there’s no way on Earth that I’d ever enjoy a chick-flick), so the fact that this was a safe, average and harmless movie was not at all surprising. If you like this genre, go and watch “Freaky Friday” from 2003 because that’s so much better, but once you’ve done that, I guess you’ll enjoy “Mean Girls.” I mean all chick-flicks are the same aren’t they?

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