Best movie of this year hands down!

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

This is a fun, entertaining classic film that is sexy, hip and full of attitude. I love it. Having said that, reading the many reviews some claim this is realistic or true to the high school culture. I like to know which schools these reviewers attended. It is nothing like my high school! And I don't want them to be like one another. I watch movies for flights of fantasy not for realism (unless it is a documentary)!

The movie "Mean Girls" (2004) is one that is memorable and makes everyone laugh. It is a comedy that especially attracts the younger crowd, but it is a movie that everyone from young to old can enjoy. It is about a girl from Africa named Cady Heron who comes to America for high school. She meets friends who are not popular and they tell her and warn her to not be friends with "The Plastics", who consist of three obnoxious, popular girls (Regina George, Gretchen, and Karen). However, she ends up becoming friends with them. Also, she becomes friends with a boy named Aaron in her math class. At first, Cady sees "The Plastics" as a nice, new group of friends but later finds out their true identity and the reason behind their name. Also, Cady is somewhat attracted to Aaron, who is also Regina's ex-boyfriend so this causes some tension. Everything turns out to be a disaster at the end because of all the drama between Regina and Cady. Cady gets in huge trouble and finally realizes that this is not what she is supposed to be like and that the "friends" she has been around have been a bad influence on her. She turns back to the old, lovable Cady that she was before getting involed with "The Plastics". The movie concludes with Cady being back with her original, nerdy group and "The Plastics" no longer being around because all three girls went in their own directions. I recommend everyone to watch this film because it is a classic teen drama/comedy movie that is hilarious to watch, and it can be watched over and over without getting boring. It will make you laugh the whole time because some of the things in the movie are super dumb and stupid that it's funny. Also, many high schoolers enjoy this movie because of the relatablity to their own high school life (drama, clicks, bulling, trying to fit in, etc). The actors in the movie are prominent actors in Hollywood. They include actors who have been in the entertainment industry for a while: Lindsay Lohan, Rachael McAdams, Jonathan Bennet, and Tiny Fey. Overall, this movie is one of my favorites because it is super funny to watch and always keeps you awake. Since I don't watch movies often, I fall asleep in them. So for me not to fall asleep proves how this movie must be a least a little interesting. This movie received mostly positive reviews, but there are a few negative reviews that criticize this movie. In May 2014, moonmonday wrote a negative review that claimed that Mean Girls is a try hard of other more successful teen movies such as "Heathers" (1988) and 'Jawbreaker" (1999). However, "Mean Girls" is not comparable because the plot of all three movies are totally different. I searched up Heathers and Jawbreaker and both have someone being murdered or committing suicide. This might give way to why they are both rated R while "Mean Girls" is rated PG-13. I think that moonmonday is just being prejudiced and likes more inaprropriate movies. He/she also might like the two movies mentioned but others don't. Heathers has similar reviews to Mean Girls (~7.0/10 reviews on IMD). On the other hand, Jawbreaker has only 5.5/10. If you ask anyone if they heard of any of these three movies, the majority will say they heard of Mean Girls. Another point that this negative review claims is that it is mean to the openly gay student, Janis Ian, when the movie should support this minority. However, the final outcome is that the protagonist, Cady, becomes good friends with her. This inaccurate review of the 2004 movie "Mean Girls" just is one person who dislikes this movie and provides reasons why they think that this movie is worthy of 1/10 stars on IMD. But, this does not reflect the movie at all. It should have at least 9/10 stars because the movie provides the lesson of always being true to yourself and not caring about what others think of you. It has a unique storyline and is filled with great acting by greater actors. Mean Girls is a have to watch movie that you can watch with your friends and family anytime.

Clever, funny, well-written, well-acted. Positive message.

God I love this movie. I have never ever watched a movie twice (not even a really good one) except for Mean Girls. Am I trying to say it's a cinematic masterpiece? No. But in the chick-flick genre it absolutely takes the crown. A funny, clever, seemingly shallow yet surprisingly wise guilty pleasure is how I like to describe it. Mean Girls subtly compares high school and the cruel "girl world" that exists within to the Jungle. The only thing that makes the two any different is the scheming, backstabbing, trash talking, manipulative ways in which these girls operate, causing an invisible wall of lies to be the only thing separating them from beasts, and let me give you a hint; the wall came down. We see how our protagonist (Cady) gets pulled into the hierarchy led by dictatorial ruler Regina and her clique of "Plastics." The thing that's so charming about the movie is that no matter how evil Regina gets, no matter how horrible she acts you just can't hate her (and yes I admit I am a little biased because Rachel McAdams is like my biggest girl crush ever). She is not portrayed as incredibly dumb (something other teen movies can't survive without) which when you think about it makes total sense: no dumb person could manipulate and intimidate their way trough high school so well. Of course the Plastics are shallow and the man crush is a popular hottie and the girl Cady first befriends happens to hate Regina more than anyone BECAUSE IT'S Still A HIGH SCHOOL MOVIE. You can't make a classic without throwing some of the stereotypes in there. Yet on the other hand the uniqueness of it is how it's the first of its kind to show how power and popularity can make you blind to other peoples feelings, and how bringing others down will not make your own insecurities vanish. Popularity should not be gained through intimidation, it should be earned by being NICE (a word that makes eyes roll and goosebumps appear in girl world). And if the horde can just realize the queen holds no actual power over them unless they give it to her she will need no taking down, she will fall herself. The best of its kind, a true classic that will never go out of fashion (even though we're talking about 2004 fashion), I would absolutely advice anyone who likes these kinds of movies to watch it right away, but then again, who hasn't already?