Mean Girls

Being a recent graduate from high school, all of my experiences are still fresh in my mind. I still remember all the clicks, the dances, the teachers and most of all the immature drama. Tina Fey's Mean Girls is an accurate portrayal of how rough high school can be, and more specifically how horrible teenage girls can be.

Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan), a "home schooled jungle freak" recently moved from the jungles of Africa to a city in America ready to start her first year at a public high school. Cady is immediately thrown into the world of cliques, make up and girl fights. Regina George ( Rachel McAdams) plays the role of the girl everyone in high school is all too familiar with. Regina is the prettiest, richest, most popular girl in school and also the leader of the "plastics." Regina along with her two followers, Gretchen (Lacey Chabert) and Karen (Amanda Seyfried), rule the school. Cady soon learns the ways of high school and eventually lands herself a spot amongst the "plastics."

Watching Cady figure out the harsh realities of the "girl world" and even turn into a mean girl herself sets the stage for a perfect teenage girl movie. The beginning scenes of the movie are the best when Cady is first finding out how hurtful, backstabbing and fake girls can be.

"You're like really pretty," Regina George says to Cady.

"Thank you," Cady replies to Regina.

"So you agree, you think you're really pretty," Regina says back to Cady.

This conversation leaves Cady confused and gives her just a hint of what she has in store for herself in the future. It's the lines like these that grabs the attention of the teenagers, because they all face similar situations in there own high schools.

The characters are what keep the movie realistic. Every high school has a Regina George, the group of girls who will do anything to be cool, the one gorgeous guy that every girl wants to date, the nerds that are content with their lives and the others who are just trying to survive. Every character in the film lives up to their stereotype, which is what adds a lot of the comedy to the movie.

Mean Girls is brilliant because it's not just like any other teen movie. High school is not portrayed as one big party and parents and teachers are not seen as being the naпve people they usually are seen as in movies. There are teachers in the movie that actually teach, and a principal in the movie much like principals at everyday high schools. This movie captures the attention of both teenagers and adults because both groups of people can relate to the movie. The teenagers can relate to the drama and troubles of high school, while adults can look back at the joys of adolescence.

There are no slow parts of the movie, everything is strung together really well. Tina Fey includes creative foreshadowing and over the top comparisons that brings everything together in the end of the movie. On Cady's first day of school she almost walks in front of a yellow school bus, making her parents question if she was ready for public school. Throughout the whole movie references are made about getting hit by a "big yellow school bus," and at the end of the movie Regina actually does get hit by a yellow school bus.

Another example of a creative thing that Tina Fey adds into the script is when