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 enlarge | Director: Mark Waters (viii)
Actors: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel Mcadams, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows, Amy Poehler
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  73 reviews
Sales Rank: 1358
Format: Anamorphic, Colour, Dolby, Pal, Subtitled
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), Swahili (Original Language), Vietnamese (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Running Time: 93 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014437853738
ASIN: B0002SCZLM
Theatrical Release Date: April 30, 2004
Release Date: October 18, 2004
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Condition: good condition
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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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 smart but exaggerated look at teen stereotypes November 19, 2008
Raised in Africa, Cady (Lohan) finds life difficult when she moves to a high school in America and meets Regina George (McAdams), leader of the Plastics.
Stereotypes can often be one of those negative elements in films which bring the rating down because of the predictability. They are based along the rules written in modern media. Despite the copycat references to other school and society figures, the teens in this picture are so over stereotyped that it works up a wonderful treat.
Lindsey Lohan (The Parent Trap) stars as central character Cady and gives an obvious performance as the new girl. She does look the part which makes the plot somewhat believable even if we have to follow her around all the time.
Rachel McAdams (The Notebook) stars as head Plastic Regina George, the girl everyone wants to be like. Attractive, intelligent and domineering she is the epitome of the schoolyard. Juxtaposed with gossip queen Lacey Chabert and dumb Amanda Seyfried and you have a great collection of stereotypes that are amusing.
Despite the strong female presence in this comedy drama, it is the male cast who deliver the most laughs. The typical gay character Damien packs a great punch and watch out for leader of the Mathematics team Kevin Gnapoor (Rajiv Surendra) who is so beautifully funny that it is almost untrue. When you see him rapping on stage you will be laughing for the rest of the week.
Heads will turn away when the formulaic plot is staring you in the face. New girl at a new school who can't fit in and fancies the one guy she can't have etc. The formula is there for a head rolling bore but be patient as when we meet the plastics, the dynamic and flow of the narrative changes dramatically.
There is a dreadful obvious finish but the conventional plot remains consistent and keeps the feet firmly placed on the ground.
Cady goes undercover to make Regina's life a living nightmare and the wearing down of the lead Plastic is very well scripted with some tasty jokes and slapstick humour. This differs slightly from the underlining convention of modern day teen films.
Unlike modern day films, there is little reference to modern media, which makes it a timeless watch.
Based on the factual advice book, this is a wonderful, if slightly over exaggerated, depiction of stereotypes. Despite the convention of the plot, Mean Girls is ultimately enjoyable with a great collection of characters that is worth viewing
7.5/10
 OMG OMG OMG September 9, 2008
This film was the best thing I had ever saw!!! I bought the DVD without ever actually seeing it and now I can't get enough of it! And even though its a Chick Flick, I know boys who like it!
Cady was home-schooled in Africa until she was 16 when she was suddenly upped and moved to an American high-school. Now she has to cope with the worst girls in the school, cliques, a boy she can't have and 'the rules of femminism'.
An amazing film of Cady's ups and down through-out a year at high-school, and how she changed it forever!
//.snap C=
PS. The soundtrack is just as FAB as the film and after watching the film I had to get the music as well!
Classic teen film with dark overtones April 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
TEENAGE CHICK FLICK!!!!!!! OK FOR A NIGHT IN!!!!!!! April 13, 2008
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! December 28, 2007
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.
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