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Mean Girls / Clueless [2004]


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Amazon.co.uk Review

The cutting wit of Tina Fey (the first female head writer for US comedy breeding ground Saturday Night Live) brilliantly fuses pop culture and smart satire. Fey wrote Mean Girls, in which a formerly home-schooled girl named Cady (Lindsay Lohan) gets dropped into the sneaky, vicious world of the Plastics, three adolescent glamour-girls who dominate their public high school's social heirarchy. Cady first befriends a couple of art-punk outsiders who persuade her to infiltrate the Plastics and destroy them from within--but power corrupts, and Cady soon finds the glory of being a Plastic to be seductive. Mean Girls joins the ranks of Clueless, Bring It On, and Heathers, cunning movies that use the hormone-pressurized high school milieu to put the dark impulses of human nature--ambition, envy, lust, revenge--under a comic microscope. Fey manages to skewer everyone without forgetting the characters' hapless humanity; it's a dazzling and delightful balancing act. --Bret Fetzer

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Synopsis

Two features. In 'Mean Girls' high school is a dangerous jungle seething with teenagers who prey on each other like wild animals. In 'Clueless' the most popular teenage beauty at Beverly Hills High is suddenly about to discover 'true love' when a couple of new hunks arrive at the school.

Classic teen film with dark overtones
Review date: 2008-04-14 Rating: 10 out of 10

I was really surprised by this film. It's packaged like a chick flick, but really has a lot more in common with the likes of "Clueless", "Bring It On", even "Heathers". If you like those, you should defintely check this out. Like "Heathers", this film really goes into the tribal torment of high school, where all anyone seems to want is to fit in and be liked by the popular people (who in fact are loathed by everyone). Loved it.

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TEENAGE CHICK FLICK!!!!!!! OK FOR A NIGHT IN!!!!!!!
Review date: 2008-04-13 Rating: 8 out of 10

This movie is about a new girl who has been home schooled in Africa and is now moved to America Highschool where the trouble begins as she meets the Queen B's who act like they own the School and world!!!!!!!!
Cady (Linsay) is now eating lunch with them, and shopping with them and chatting with them and going around their houses!!! Now an inoccent sweet teenager is beginning to act like a bratty teenagers obsessed with her appearance and maycup and clothes. She is now totally popular and plans to keep it that way with all the parties behind her parents backs and the bitchy ness. She ended up this way because with her pervious friends they had planned to ruin the girls lives as they had done very mean and nasty things they had done and they persauded Cady too. Cady also has a love life and it is the Sping Fling coming up and she wants to go with this really cool guy can she change back!!!!!!
See it and you'lllove it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great for a girly night in!
Review date: 2007-12-28 Rating: 8 out of 10

Mean Girls stars Lindsey Lohan as Cady Heron, a clueless teenager who's been brought up in the African jungle by her zoologist parents, meaning she's never attended high school. Until now. Thrown in at the deep end, she has to quickly learn the 'rules' of high school; where to sit, what to do, who to talk to, who not to talk to... poor Cady ends up eating her lunch in the toilets on more than one occasion.

However, two friendly 'outcasts' soon take her under their wing and help her acclimatise to school life. They point out all the different cliques and warn her away from the Plastics - three pretty, popular, and truly evil girls. Cady soon runs into trouble, though, when the 'Queen Bee' of the Plastics, Regina George, spots her and asks her to sit with them. Regina then decides to befriend Cady. Preferring to be with her 'outcast' friends, Cady isn't sure. But after explaining to Janis and Damian, the three of them decide Cady should pretend to be one of the Plastics in order to discover all their deepest darkest secrets, and bring them down from the inside, punishing them for the torture they've inflicted on their fellow students over the years.

Totally the opposite of the bitchy, air-headed and self-obsessed Plastics, Cady struggles to fit in with them, but tries her best. She is excelling in her classes, particularly Mathematics - her favourite. But there is a distraction in that particular class - in the shape of the gorgeous Aaron Samuels, who also happens to be Regina's ex-boyfriend. Warned off Aaron by Plastic #2, Gretchen, Cady tries to hide her attraction. But soon enough, Regina finds out about her crush on Aaron and encourages Cady to 'go for it' with him - only then to start dating him again and waving the fact in Cady's face. Cady now knows how truly evil Regina can be, and resolves to bring her status down, with help from her true friends. But in trying to bring down the Plastics, Cady unwittingly becomes one herself.

A real chick-flick, in the same league as Clueless and similar American comedies, Mean Girls will really make you giggle in places, and also emphathise with many of the characters. This is a feel-good film as all comes right in the end and there truly is a moral to the story, which is often lacking in modern films.

Overall, not half bad. I didn't think it was as good as Clueless, but still definitely worth picking up on DVD for a girly night in.


Well worth a watch!
Review date: 2007-11-06 Rating: 10 out of 10

'Mean Girls' is the story of Cady Herron, a girl who has always been home-schooled in Africa, who has now moved to America and must attend a high school there. It gives a slightly exaggerated but none the less accurate picture of High School life these days and the power struggles within the school. Cady is faced with the typical geeks, horrible rumours, the mean and sly popular plastics, and the problem of whether she is allowed to date Aaron- lead plastic Regina's ex boyfriend! Cady joins the plastics & they write mean comments about other girls in their 'burn book'. When the burn book gets around, anarchy breaks out in the school.

I didn't know what to expect with this, but I have to say that it is very well written and very well produced. The storyline is great and perhaps makes people more aware of the situations in high schools today, whilst being hilariously funny in places along the way. I have this DVD and it is one of the small bunch of films that i am happy to watch over and over again.

a very funny comedy and some very scary girls
Review date: 2007-10-11 Rating: 8 out of 10

I'm glad I didn't go to a school with girls as nasty as this in it!
But I have to admit that by the end of the film I liked these nasty girls more than the nice ones.The first half hour or so of the film is hard to follow because there is so much quick-talking and information being thrown around but the pace settles down and the extremely funny and bitchy story unfolds.If you were thinking of going to school in the United States before you watched Mean Girls, you won't be thinking of going to school there after watching it! Lots of bonus features
and interviews with the main stars, the writer, the fashion designer, director and so on.Good value for money.

Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
Tina Fey
Rachel McAdams
Amy Poehler
Lindsay Lohan
Tim Meadows

Creators:
Lindsay Lohan (Primary Contributor)
Rachel McAdams (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: Paramount Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
EAN: 5014437858832
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Box set, PAL,
Release date: 2004-10-18
Number of discs: 2
Audience rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 190 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2004-04-30
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: German (Original Language)
Language: Swahili (Original Language)
Language: Vietnamese (Original Language)

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