Who would have thought that SNL cast member and head writer Tina Fey could concoct a feature-length comedic film that was successful? Me. That’s right! I had all the confidence in the world when I first heard that Ms. Fey was going to dabble her humorous wand in the comedy film pool. Mean Girls features the voluptuous Lindsay Lohan (Freaky Friday) and co-stars Fey herself, Lacey Chabert, Rachel McAdams, and fellow SNL alums Ana Gasteyer and Tim Meadows. Lohan, the new female Ashton flavor of the month (and in this case strawberry), acts it up as Cady Heron, a home-schooled South African native who enters public high school for the first time for her senior year. She is instantly exposed to and endures the suffering pain that can potentially be the first day of high school. Cady however, with her obvious charm, full breasts and bright intellect, makes friends quickly despite her initial disappointing encounters with fellow students. At first she becomes chums with what could be deemed as the “outcasts” but through a devised plan, she infiltrates a group of the most popular and beautiful girls in the school known as the “plastics.” Cady would soon become trapped in their world thus inevitably biting off more than she could chew.

The student divisions and social hierarchy of the school is immediately exposed in the beginning of the film, thus setting the tone for limitless clich?s. However, Fey proves herself worthy of originality as she creates a world which is easily relatable and nostalgic in most cases. Her intuitive eye for the teenage female psyche makes Mean Girls positively hilarious in its dialogue and plot structure.

Bottom Line: We all at some point had an enemy in high school, or gossiped behind someone’s back, and this film exemplifies the superficiality of teenage-dom. Mean Girls brings about fresh new talent with its actors as Tina Fey scores big with what was initially thought as another bubblegum flick, has now become an instant hit.

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