Monday, July 29, 2013

Mean Girls

Finally watched this gem of high school films.

This was before Lindsay Lohan went off the rails and she was still the sweetheart actress with freckles. It was also before anyone knew who Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried are.

The story is pretty simple. New girl comes to high school after having lived in Africa for over a decade and having been home schooled. She is just about to learn the basic rules of high school life when she gets adopted into the group referred to as the 'plastics' (which is exactly what it sounds like). She is supposed to pretend to be friends with them and report back to a couple of students on the margins of high school life but bit by bit becomes just like the pretty air heads.

Of course, everything comes to blows eventually but she makes amends and gives a pretty speech and gets the boy in the end.

Funny and full of quotable lines.

6/10

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