Mean Girls is available on DVD September 21. The DVD contains commentary tracks, deleted scenes, featurettes and the always reliable blooper reel.
Watch carefully in Tina Fey's smart teen comedy
Mean Girls and you can probably pinpoint the moment where Lindsay Lohan crosses over from sweet child actress to sexy, full blown bombshell. Fey and Lohan aren't afraid to take the character of Cady (pronounced Katie) to more darker places than the heroine of a typical teen movie. Director Mark S. Waters combines the breezy, yet memorable feel of his previous smash hit
Freaky Friday with the more wicked tone of his 1997 Parker Posey - in full crazy Parker Posey mode - film
The House of Yes. Joining in all this comedic talent is Rachel McAdams, the year's breakthrough leading lady, as the bitchy Regina ("Queen" in African.) The jungle-is-high school allegories are dead on, and the supporting cast sports a list of expert
Saturday Night Live players. First and foremost though, it is Fey's victory. In a year of terribly weak comedic entries, I've wondered too often what Tina Fey could've done with the screenplays of the unfunny films. (I've apparenlty done this so many times that other blogs have taken notice. *wink wink*) Chances are you'll be quoting this film for months and finding yourself relating unexpectedly to the film's barrage of comedic zingers and characters.
This really isn't a film for those in high school so much as for those who are out of it. The film's primary messages - the way we sabotage each other to redeem ourselves and the way those who destroy the powerful are destined to be just as corrupted as the ones who they destroyed - might be lost on a younger audience distracted by the cool music, tight skirts and wide variety of eye candy. As your reigning expert on teen movies, this is the best one since
Clueless. Check it out and be fetch. You don't want to be an effing scheez now do you?
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