MPAA Rating: PG-13
Distributor:Paramount Pictures
Director:Mark S. Waters
Actors: Lindsay Lohan as Cady Heron, Tina Fey as Ms. Norbury, Rachel McAdams as Regina, Lizzy Caplan as Janis, Lacey Chabert as Gretchen, Daniel Franzese as Damian, Tim Meadows as Principal Duvall, Jonathan Bennett as Aaron, Amanda Seyfried as Karen and Amy Poehler as Regina’s Mom.

After spending most of her life in Africa home-schooled by zoologist parents, Cady Heron moves to Illinois and enters the real jungle: public high school. She connects with social outcasts Janice and Damian and gets a zoo- like tour of the cliques to avoid, particularly a group Janice calls The Plastics. They are three gorgeous, wealthy, snobby girls led by a girl named Regina. Both admired and disliked by the other students, the trio quickly takes an interest in Cady, who tries hard to think the best of them.

Regina proves Janice right, however. When made aware that Regina is pretending friendship while stealthily assaulting her, Cady stays close to The Plastics in order to give Regina a dose of her own medicine. The trouble is, the more Cady play-acts like a Plastic, the more she becomes one. She soon learns that casual remarks made in private can have big consequences.

Although Mean Girls has good messages about the consequences of gossip, it’s unfortunately marked up with unnecessary language, immodesty, inappropriate themes and teen drinking.

Because of the edgier themes running through this film, kids who fell in love with Lindsay Lohan in The Parent Trap — and stuck around for Freaky Friday and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen — may make a good decision not to follow her here.

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